Iain Dale's Diary Political Store - Some eclectic, but inspirational, influences ...

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Some eclectic, but inspirational, influences ...

	Bruckner: Symphony No.9 Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £9.10 Gunter Wand regarded this work as a kind of gateway to Heaven - providing proof of the existence of God. Buy, listen and understand why ...
	Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £7.00 Never the conductor's favourite, but probably mine. A priceless recording from his last appearance in Berlin - won a posthumous Gramophone Award for Wand in 2002.
	Doctor Who - The Three Doctors [1972] [DVD] [1963] Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.38 Classic television at its best - the rivalry between Troughton and Pertwee is priceless.
	Doctor Who - Spearhead From Space [DVD] [1970] Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.18 The Brig at his best - and Pertwee on top form too, all recorded on film rather than video and looking crisper than ever.
	Rising Damp: The Works [DVD] [1974] Buy used from: £6.95 Magnificently redolent of the 70s, yet somehow not dated at all. Leonard Rossiter offers a master class in television comedy acting - and Richard Beckinsale is little short of a genius.
	Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 by Dmitri Shostakovich Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £2.13 Historic, authentic and devastatingly powerful. Truly an experience.
	Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire by Michael McManus Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £2.77 Coz it's the book what I wrote!!!
	Five Rounds Rapid!: Autobiography of Nicholas Courtney - Doctor Who's Brigadier by Nicholas Courtney Buy used from: £16.99 Good fun - but a new, expanded and imrpoved edition is now on its way ...!!!
	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand [DVD] [1999] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £9.22 Magnificent, a parable of our times.
	David Oistrakh - Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto In D Major Op. 35 [DVD] Genius - and a reminder that, even the cruellest regimes, great artistry can sometimes flourish.
	David Oistrakh - Artist Of The People? - A Film By Bruno Monsaingeon [DVD] [1994] Buy new: £19.59 / Used from: £13.00 A great film about a great man. High (and low) politics and fantastic music intertwine. Not to be missed.
	Spirit & the Blues by Various Artists Buy used from: £8.37 genuine folk music at its best - pared down, sung from the heart.
	Mahler: Symphony No.4 Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £6.95 Lenny at his most idiosyncratic, but utterly, utterly compelling ...
	Mozart - Symphonies Nos 35; 40 and 41 Perfect Mozart - lithe, graceful, yet full of affection.
	Rostropovich: Bach Cello Suites [1991] (Region 1) (NTSC) [DVD] Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £9.99 Stunning - and fascinating too, as Slava Rostropovich introduces and explains each of the suites ...