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🗓️ 17 November 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast. |
0:08.3 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to |
0:12.8 | take with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:20.9 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music Music |
0:36.0 | Music Music |
0:44.0 | My cast away this week is Stephen Graham. |
0:47.2 | One of the hardest working British actors in the business, he caught the acting bug early. |
0:51.9 | He was born in Kirby near Liverpool and he cut his teeth at the city's star making |
0:56.4 | Everyman Theatre. |
0:57.8 | He's worked since his teens and it was his standout performance in Shane Meadows This |
1:01.9 | is England in 2006 that first won him wide critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. |
1:08.7 | Since then he's found success on the big screen and the small. |
1:12.1 | Earlier this year, millions of TV viewers were gripped by his portrayal of a brutal undercover |
1:17.0 | cop in the BBC drama Line of Duty. |
1:20.3 | He's known for the powerful humanity and naturalism he brings to his roles, oh and for being |
1:24.9 | absolutely terrifying. |
1:26.8 | He's taken up cudgles for Martin Scorsese numerous times, first in Gangs of New York, then |
1:31.9 | as a brilliantly unhinged Al Capone in HBO's Boardwalk Empire and most recently as a mobster |
1:37.9 | Tony Provinzano in The Irishman. |
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