Tim Robbins
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning actor and director Tim Robbins.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning actor, writer and director Tim Robbins.
His film credits include The Shawshank Redemption, Dead Man Walking, The Hudsucker Proxy and Mystic River. Brought up in an artistic and creative household in New York's Greenwich Village, he was always encouraged to sing and perform. After talking politics around the dinner table as a teenager he would, on occasion, spend his evenings working the lights for the local drag act.
Indeed it was on stage, rather than in front of the camera, that Tim Robbins developed his own acting style: "It gave me a discipline to still the anarchic energy I had," he says: "A rigid discipline to an emotional truth and the ability to have that at my fingertips."
Producer: Leanne Buckle
Record: A Case of You -Joni Mitchell
Book: A Matchbook
Luxury: A Surfboard.
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Music Played
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Bruce Springsteen
O Mary Don't You Weep
- Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome the Seeger Sessions.
- Columbia.
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Nina Simone
Sinnerman
- The Very Best of Nina Simone: Feeling Good.
- Verve.
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Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt
Isa Lei
- A Meeting by the River.
- Water Lily..
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Johnny Cash
In Your Mind
- Dead Man Walking.
- Columbia.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nothing Without You
- Mustt Mustt.
- Real World.
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Castaway's Favourite
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Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
- Blue.
- Reprise.
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Warren Zevon
Don't Let Us Get Sick
- Life鈥檒l Kill Ya.
- Artemis.
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Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On
- Let鈥檚 Get It On.
- Motown.
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Book Choice
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Matchbook
Luxury Choice
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Surfboard
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Kirsty Young |
Interviewed Guest | Tim Robbins |
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Jul 2010 11:15大象传媒 Radio 4
- Fri 23 Jul 2010 09:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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