Private Passions - Mark Haddon

Michael Berkeley talks to novelist Mark Haddon, whose best-selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won many major literary awards. He has since published A Spot of Bother and is currently writing a stage play. His musical tastes are wide-ranging, and he talks eloquently about each of his choices, from Britten's setting of the folk song Tom Bowling and a Mozart piano sonata to music by Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and Sonic Youth. Playlist: M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) (pub OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 Tr 10 Dur: 25s Arr Britten: Tom Bowling Peter Pears (tenor) Benjamin Britten (piano) Folksongs DECCA 430 063-2 Tr 3 Dur: 4m26s David Raksin: Laura Derek Bailey (guitar) CDR T2 Ballads TZADIK 7607 Tr 1 Dur: 2m58s Steve Reich: Pulse (Music for 18 Musicians) Music for 18 Musicians ECM 821 417-2 Tr 1 Dur: 4m42s Autechre: PlyPhon (from the album Quaristice) Quaristice WARP WARPCD333 Tr 4 Dur: 2m31s Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K545 (Sonata Facile) - 1st mvt - Allegro Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Mozart PHILIPS 412 122-2 Tr 1 Dur: 4m33s Sonic Youth: Kool Thing (from the album Goo) Goo GEFFEN 7599-24297-2 Tr 4 Dur: 4m06s Elliott Carter: Oboe Quartet (opening) Heinz Holliger (oboe) Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Ruth Killius (viola) Thomas Demenga (cello) Lauds and Lamentations ECM 472 787-2 Tr 1 Dur: 7m35s Kate Rusby: My Young Man Little Lights PURE MUSIC PRCD07 Tr 11 Dur: 4m4s.