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Martin Sheen
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Last broadcast on Friday, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen.
In recent years he has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely successful political drama The West Wing. He's made more than a 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his children - Emilio Estevez.
But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he says by faith and conscience above politics.
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music played
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Bob Dylan — Subterranean Homesick Blues
Composer: Bob Dylan
Biograph, CBS -
Enya — How Can I Keep From Singing?
Composer: Trad. Enya, Ryan & Ryan
Shepherd Moons, WEA -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major - second movement
Artist: Daniel Barenboim with the English Chamber Orchestra.
Mozart Piano Concertos, EMI -
Antonio Vivaldi — Spring from the Four Seasons
Artist: Pinchas Zukerman
The Italian Album, Sony Classical -
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No 9 in D Minor 'Choral' -Ode to Joy
Artist: The Netherlands Radio Chorus with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
Symphony No.9, Philips -
The London Emmanuel Choir — How Great Thou Art
Composer: Music: Stuart K Hine . Words: Russian trad & Kine.
Top Twenty Hymns, BBC -
Composer: Dylan
Biograph: Cd3, CBS -
Johann Pachelbel — Canon in D Major
Artist: The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Herbert Von Karajan: BPO/Karajan; Adagion works…, Deutsche Grammophon
