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Musician Guy Garvey is castaway by Kirsty Young.

Front man of the group "Elbow" Guy's voice and lyrics have helped the band win pretty much every music prize going ... headlining Glastonbury too, and playing at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.

Yet his image is that of an everyday, low key, unassuming bloke ... except that he isn't, he's penning and performing songs filled with intimacy, optimism and lyricism, that strike a chord with millions of fans.

For a long while his devotees were well versed in the art of delayed gratification - Elbow's debut album was released 11 years after the band members first made music together.

He writes his songs in his journal and has been keeping a diary since he was 14. Maybe it was the peace and calm of the blank page that first appealed - one of 7 kids he says he was brought up:

"in a house full of women that were singing, shouting, arguing, fighting over the bathroom. I'm ruined by these women, spoilt rotten"

DISC ONE: Talk Talk - New Grass
DISC TWO: Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You for Talkin’ to Me, Africa
DISC THREE: Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
DISC FOUR: Public Enemy - Give It Up (edit)
DISC FIVE: English Chamber Orchestra with Arleen Augér and Yan Pascal Tortelier - Joseph Canteloube’s Bailero from Chants d'Auvergne
DISC SIX: Jolie Holland - Wandering Angus
DISC SEVEN: Tom Waits - Picture in a Frame
DISC EIGHT: Joan As Police Woman - Real Life

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Talk Talk - New Grass
BOOK CHOICE: The collected works - J.D. Salinger
LUXURY CHOICE: Bushmills Irish Whiskey and ice

Producer: Sarah Taylor

First broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 in August 2014.

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