Nicola Horlick
Kirsty Young's castaway is businesswoman Nicola Horlick.
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the investment banker Nicola Horlick. She has, perhaps, done more than anyone else to shatter the glass ceiling - a mother of six children and now stepmum to another three, her proud boast is that she's never missed a sports day or a school speech day. She says her career is largely an extension of her maternal instinct and she nurtures the companies she's ploughing funds into. With her apparently limitless energy, talent and ambition she seemed to be the one woman who had managed to have it all. Then her eldest daughter, Georgie, was diagnosed with leukaemia. For the next 10 years, until Georgie's death in 1998, Nicola combined nursing her daughter with her highly successful career, while also looking after the rest of her growing family.
Now she is launching a new investment company and, with her very personal knowledge of the NHS, says she doesn't rule out a future within the health service.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: A Cenar Teco from the final Act of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Luxury: A bath.
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Julie Andrews
My Favorite Things
- The Sound of Music: 35th Anniversary Collector鈥檚 Edition.
- RCA.
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Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer
- Old Friends.
- Columbia.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Pie Jesu (from Requiem)
Soloist: Victoria de Los Angeles
- Faure: Requiem/Cluytens.
- EMI Classics.
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Modest Mussorgsky
First promenade (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
Orchestra: The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
- Russian Music: Mussorgsky-Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov-Tchaikovsky.
- Virgin Classics.
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Don Giovanni, a cenar teco (from Don Giovanni)
- Mozart: Don Giovanni.
- Decca.
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Howard Blake
Walking in the Air
- Senses: 20 Contemporary Moods and Themes.
- Polygram.
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Bryan Adams
Heaven
- Anthology.
- Polydor.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata
Soloist: Yefim Bronfman and Isaac Stern
- Mozart: Sonatas for Piano and Violin.
- Sony Classical.
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Book Choice
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The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Luxury Choice
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A bath
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Kirsty Young |
| Interviewed Guest | Nicola Horlick |
Broadcasts
- Sun 29 Jul 2007 11:15大象传媒 Radio 4 FM
- Fri 3 Aug 2007 09:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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