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Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
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David Baddiel
Comedian and writer
My daughter Dolly singing Your Song by Elton John when she was 11. I was filming and the filming is pathetic because you can tell I’m just wobbling with tears. I want everyone to cry at my funeral, including my daughter.
Eddie Marsan
British actor
George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.
Sananda Maitreya
Singer and songwriter
As a native-derived person, we don’t believe in death. Death is a western, fear-based concept. We believe that an eternal spirit is housed into a temporary vehicle, and when that vehicle no longer becomes tenable to inhabit, we just move on. If I had to play music, I’d insist on Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
Chris Froome
British cyclist
Scatterlings Of Africa, by Johnny Clegg.
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Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
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