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Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, medical scientist, and director of the Wellcome Trust, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation which funds scientific research. He is a member of Sage, the scientific group currently advising the government on Covid-19.

He is the youngest of six children and was born in Singapore. His mother was an artist and his father was a teacher, who worked around the world, and the family lived in New Zealand, Cyprus and Libya.

After struggling to win a place a medical school, he trained as a doctor in London and then moved to Edinburgh to work as a neurologist. He switched to public health and was for 18 years the Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where he worked on infectious diseases, including the re-emergence of bird flu in 2004. He was knighted for services to global health in 2019, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of The Royal Society.

DISC ONE: Under The Boardwalk by The Rolling Stones
DISC TWO: The World Service Lillibulero theme, composed by Henry Purcell
DISC THREE: Muezzin Call To Prayer, recorded by David Fanshawe
DISC FOUR: Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, read by Sir Simon Russell Beale
DISC FIVE: Mallai Chroch Shli by Duncan Chisholm
DISC SIX: Nabucco: Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco, by the Chicago
Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
DISC SEVEN: 7 Seconds by Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry
DISC EIGHT: Love under the Moonlight by The Khac Chi Ensemble

BOOK CHOICE: Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry by A. P. Wavell
LUXURY ITEM: A cricket bowling machine
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Love under the Moonlight by The Khac Chi Ensemble

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Sarah Taylor

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Music Played

  • The Rolling Stones

    Under The Boardwalk

    • The Rolling Stones No. 2.
    • Universal Music Operations.
    • 14.

  • Trad.

    Lillibulero

    Composer: Henry Purcell.

  • Sir Simon Rusell Beale

    Ulysses

  • Duncan Chisholm

    Mallai Chroch Shli

    • Farrar.
    • Copperfish Records.
    • 5.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco: Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves

    Choir: Chicago Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Essential Opera.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Youssou Ndour & Neneh Cherry

    7 Seconds

    • Summer Breeze.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 14.

  • Khac Chi Ensemble

    Love Under the Moonlight

    • Spirit of Vietnam.
    • Jericho Beach Music.
    • 4.

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  • Sun 6 Dec 2020 11:00
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4
  • Fri 11 Dec 2020 09:00
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4

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