Imtiaz Dharker
4 Extra Debut. From Shankar Mahadevan to Ronald Binge. Poet and artist Imtiaz Dharker shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2015.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and artist, Imtiaz Dharker.
Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for her work, her life seems a perfect reflection of the inter-relatedness of The Commonwealth. Born in Pakistan she was no more than a few months old when the family packed up their belongings and flew four thousand miles to start a new life - exchanging the blistering, dusty lanes of Lahore for the blustery, rain-slicked roads of Glasgow.
Her father worked hard and, from scratch, built a big, successful business and a comfortable life for his children. But the immigrant fairytale came undone when his restless, well-educated, westernised daughter married in secret, running away to Bombay. Her parents disowned her and she would never see her mother again.
Her work centres on themes of freedom, cultural intolerance, everyday life and gender politics.
DISC ONE: Sachal Studios Orchestra -Take Five
DISC TWO: Donald O’Connor & Gene Kelly - Moses Supposes from Singin' in the Rain
DISC THREE: Shankar Mahadevan - Breathless
DISC FOUR: Ayesha Dharker - Charara charara maro chakro chale
DISC FIVE: Klemens Schnorr - Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for Organ
DISC SIX: Antony - If It be Your Will
DISC SEVEN: John Grierson and Stuart Legg - Benjamin Britten's Night Mail
DISC EIGHT: Ronald Binge - Sailing By into the Shipping Forecast read by Luke Tuddenham
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Ronald Binge - Sailing By into the Shipping Forecast read by Luke Tuddenham
BOOK CHOICE: An atlas of the whole world
LUXURY CHOICE: The Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Producer: Sarah Taylor
First broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio 4 in July 2015.
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