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Jeremy Bowen is the BBC\\u2019s award-winning international editor. He has been reporting from the world\\u2019s conflict zones, including Iraq, Bosnia, the Middle East and Ukraine, for more than 30 years.

Jeremy was born in Cardiff in 1960. His father was a journalist for BBC Wales, who covered the Aberfan disaster in 1966, and his mother was a press photographer. In 1984, after university, Jeremy joined the BBC as a news trainee and in 1989 he starting reporting from Afghanistan and El Salvador.

From 1995 to 2000 he was based in Jerusalem as the BBC\\u2019s Middle East correspondent. During that time he reported on the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. His coverage of the event won him the Royal Television Society\\u2019s Award for Best Breaking News report.

In 2022 Jeremy started reporting on the ground in Ukraine and earlier this year he returned to Iraq to discover how the country was coping, 20 years after the US-led invasion in March 2003.

Jeremy lives in London with his partner Julia.

DISC ONE: Let\\u2019s Stay Together - Al Green \\nDISC TWO: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63: II. Larghetto. Composed by Edward Elgar and performed by Hall\\xe9 Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli\\nDISC THREE: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op 18. Composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff and performed by Vladimir Ashkenazi (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andr\\xe9 Previn \\nDISC FOUR: America - Simon & Garfunkel\\nDISC FIVE: La boh\\xe8me: O soave fanciulla. Composed by Giacomo Puccini and performed by Pl\\xe1cido Domingo, Montserrat Caball\\xe9, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti \\nDISC SIX: Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras. Composed by Johannes Brahms and performed by Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan \\nDISC SEVEN: In My Life \\u2013 The Beatles \\nDISC EIGHT: Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks\\n \\nBOOK CHOICE: The Complete Novels of George Orwell\\nLUXURY ITEM: A manual typewriter \\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63: II. Larghetto. Composed by Edward Elgar and performed by Hall\\xe9 Orchestra and Wiener Singverein, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

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