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Unemployed actors should steer clear of this edition: Colin Firth reveals that he has never been out of work since he started his career in the early 1980s. But he also acknowledges that this means he spends most of his working day like a child, being told what to do and when to do it. As one might expect, he is charming, articulate, self-deprecating and funny: if only his musical choices.

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Actor Colin Firth chats to Sue Lawley and selects eight favourite recordings to take to the BBC's mythical island. First aired in 2005.

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