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1. Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP

   24 november 2002 · 35 min

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   Described by Lord Tebbit as "a remarkably normal family man with children", Iain has just completed twelve months as Leader of the Conservative Party - he was the first Leader to be elected by a ballot of the Party's membership. Iain married Betsy in 1982 and they have two sons and two daughters. Lees meer

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: The Benedictus (from Requiem) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Book: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
   Luxury: Oil paints

2. Christopher Ondaatje

   17 november 2002 · 35 min

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   Christopher Ondaatje was born in the British colony of Ceylon and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon. He moved to Canada and in 1964 was a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled team. He is a retired businessman with a taste for adventure, philanthropy and cricket (he is a patron of Somerset County Cricket Club). He is a member of the exclusive club of Labour's 'million plus' donors and his philanthropy does not stop there - he has also given over a million pounds to the Royal Geographical Society and the National Portrait Gallery, who named a wing of the gallery after him. Lees meer

   Married with three children and 12 grandchildren, Mr Ondaatje is now based in London when he is not travelling the world. His lust for adventure has fuelled several books - most famously Journey to the Source of the Nile.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Einleitung / Introduction by Richard Strauss
   Book: Anthology of Poetry by Robert Service
   Luxury: The Blue Nude by Justin Deranyagala

3. Marguerite Wolff

   15 november 2002 · 37 min

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   Marguerite Wolff has dedicated her life to performing all around the world. Sir Arthur Bliss composed for her and she studied under Louis Kentner. Marguerite was born into a musical family in London in the 1920s. Her mother began teaching her the piano and would sit and practice with her daily. Soon she was getting up at six in the morning to practice, and continuing on her return from school. Her first public performance was in the Wigmore Hall when she was ten years-old, after she won a competition run by the piano firm Murdoch. At fifteen, she performed with Sir John Barbirolli. Later in her teens Marguerite went to study with Louis Kentner, who she continued to work with until he died in 1985. Lees meer

   During World War II Marguerite toured the country entertaining the troops with a group put together by Walter Legge of HMV. It gave her a taste for travel and, after the war, a concert she gave in Paris was her first experience of foreign travel. She has since toured around the world and is well-known for her beautiful couture gowns, the first of which was by Norman Hartnell. Still performing, in June 2002 Marguerite was awarded an OBE for services to music world-wide.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: First act of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
   Book: Liszt biography by Alan Walker
   Luxury: A piano

4. Rt Hon Robin Cook MP

   3 november 2002 · 36 min

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   Robin Cook was born in Larnarkshire, east of Glasgow; an only child whose father was a science teacher. In his teens the family moved to Edinburgh so that his father could take up a headmaster job and Robin attended the same school. At school his favourite pursuits were the debating society and drama and he had an early interest in politics. Whilst his school friends were poring over the New Musical Express, Robin was reading the New Statesman. Friends recall he always wore two badges on his blazer - an anti-apartheid one, and a CND one. Lees meer

   In 1964 he went to Edinburgh University to read English as he loved reading and literature and his ambition was to be a minister - he planned to go on to study Divinity. But doubts about his beliefs set in, and he turned his passion and determination into the Labour Party and socialism. His first job was as a teacher but he soon went to work at the Workers Educational Association and became involved in the political scene, becoming an MP for Edinburgh Central in February 1974. He was elected MP for Livingston in 1983. He was Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Security from 1987-92; Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1994-97; Chair of the Labour party 1996-98 and a Privy Councillor since 1996. He was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when Labour were returned to government in 1997 and first came up with the idea of Labour's ethical foreign policy. He moved from the Foreign Office to become Leader of the House Commons last year and is responsible for parliamentary reform.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner
   Book: The National Hunt Form Book
   Luxury: A chess computer

5. P D James

   27 oktober 2002 · 36 min

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   P D James was born in Oxford, later moving to Ludlow on the Welsh Borders where she experienced a childhood which she says had more in common with a Victorian childhood than anything today. She was a well-behaved, quiet child who entertained herself and her siblings by telling and writing stories. Phyllis attended an old-fashioned grammar school where she enjoyed English lessons. She says "I knew I was going to write books". Lees meer

   Because of financial pressures at home, she had to leave school at sixteen, first following her father into the tax office, then in a theatre where she met her husband, who was training to be a doctor. World War Two intervened and, because her husband returned from work in the Medical Corps with a severe mental illness, Phyllis had to be the main breadwinner, working as principal hospital administrator at the North West Regional Hospital Board, London in charge of five psychiatric hospitals. It wasn't until she was thirty-nine years old, whilst working in the hospital, that Phyllis began her first novel, Cover Her Face. "I knew it was something I was going to do, and it was just that life was so busy I didn't get round to it". She chose the name P D James because it looked good on a book jacket, and crime genre because she didn't want to draw on autobiographical details.

   The book was immediately accepted by a publisher, and in 1979 she gave up her other jobs to become a full-time writer, focusing on Detective Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard as her main character. P D James was awarded the OBE in 1982, she has chaired the Booker Prize panel of judges, has been on the BBC Board of Governors, was made an Associate fellow, Downing College, Cambridge in 1986 and made a Life Peer in 1992. Her books have made her a household name and she is now working on her 17th novel.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: The Opening Chorus of the St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach…

6. Carl Djerassi

   20 oktober 2002 · 36 min

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   Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna to an Austrian mother and Bulgarian father. Both parents were involved in the medical profession and, growing up surrounded by medical paraphernalia, he assumed that he would become a doctor. For the first four years of his schooling in Austria, he attended a girls' school as the boys school was full. He says "women are much more important than men in my life. I mean, I enjoyed it, I'm not complaining at all!" He didn't start studying science until his mid-teens and the outbreak of war meant a move to America, where he attended a pre-medical course at college. He soon became interested in organic chemistry and focussed on this subject for his PhD. Lees meer

   Whilst working at a pharmaceutical company he was involved in two important discoveries. The synthesis of cortisone from plant material was, at that time, the most competitive and difficult project amongst chemists. Cortisone was considered a wonder drug in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation and eczema. The other discovery was the creation of a progesterone that could be orally active - aimed at treating menstrual disorders and infertility. It was realised that it could be used as a contraceptive but, as Carl says: "in the 1950s contraception was not high on the priority list. Pharmaceutical companies, with one exception, were not interested in that field. The population explosion and these concepts did not come about until 10 years later". It wasn't until 1960 that it was approved by the FDA as a contraceptive and became the Pill.

   Carl spent the next few years working in research and universities. He has also published five novels, three plays, a book of short stories, an autobiography and a memoir and is still writing. He describes a lot of his work as science in fiction - not science fiction - which explores aspects of scientific behaviour and of scientific facts. As he says, "Disguising them in the cloak of fiction, it is possible to illustrate ethical dilemmas that …

7. Paul Gambaccini

   13 oktober 2002 · 34 min

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   Paul Gambaccini was born in New York City in 1949 and revelled growing up to the sounds of the 1960s. He loved listening to the radio and chose to go to Dartmouth College in preference to Harvard or Yale because it had a student-run commercial college radio station. He soon became a news reporter, DJ and eventually manager. Paul came to England to study PPE at Oxford University and, although he was despondent when the local radio station wouldn't give him a job, his luck changed following his graduation when he was offered an American Music slot on the recently launched BBC Radio 1. At 24 years of age, he was their youngest broadcaster and stayed with the network for 18 years. Lees meer

   He has worked on most radio and television networks, including a film review slot, which ran for 13 years, on breakfast television, and presenting the film edition of BBC Radio 4's Kaleidoscope programme. He has also written a number of books, including co-authoring The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, which illustrates his remarkable memory for music facts and figures. He now presents America's Greatest Hits on BBC Radio 2 and Classic Countdown on Classic FM.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: The Finale of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gerhswin
   Book: The complete Carl Barks Library by Carl Barks
   Luxury: A piano

8. Philip Pullman

   6 oktober 2002 · 37 min

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   Philip Pullman is the author of the celebrated His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. He was born in Norwich and spent his early years travelling all over the world with his father, who was in the RAF, and his mother and brother. Whilst in Australia he devoured comic book stories, which made a big contrast to the traditional stories his clergyman grandfather would tell him on return trips to Norwich. Philip planned to be a writer from the age of six and, when the family moved to Wales when he was 11, he developed a real passion for stories, encouraged by a school teacher to read more and write them down. Philip went to study English at Oxford, although he says it was really after he finished his degree that he started to learn. He began his first novel the day he left and although he says "it was terrible" he didn't give up. He worked in a variety of jobs to enable him to write and eventually went into teaching. He developed his writing style further by writing school plays and dealing with the challenge of making them accessible to both the children and the parents: it was an ideal training ground. Lees meer

   Philip has since written many books for children: Clockwork, I was a Rat! (which was dramatised for BBC television), and The Firework-Maker's Daughter, which won the Smarties Gold Award in 1996 and the Sally Lockhart Award. The His Dark Materials trilogy has become a huge success with children and adults, and, on 22nd January 2002, Philip won the Whitbread Prize for the third book in the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. This was the first time that a children's book had won either the Booker or the Whitbread.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Sonata Reminiscenza in A Minor by Nickolay Medtner
   Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
   Luxury: A Jar of Apricots, by Chardin

9. Dame Alicia Markova

   29 september 2002 · 44 min

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   Dame Alicia Markova was born Lilian Alice Marks in December 1910, in a two-bedroom flat in Finsbury Park, London. She began ballet classes because she was flat footed and knock kneed. Her natural talent, when she was ten, was spotted by Diaghilev, the Russian artistic impresario who founded the Ballets Russes and brought the contemporary arts of Russia to Europe. Dame Alicia joined Diaghilev's company, which was based in Monte Carlo, in 1925, a month after her 14th birthday. Diaghilev changed her name to Alicia Markova and cast her in the title role of Nightingale in Le Rossignol, a ballet scored by Stravinsky, choreographed by Balanchine and with costumes designed by Matisse. It premiered in Paris in June 1925. Lees meer

   After Diaghilev's death in 1929 she returned to England and became a leading figure of the emerging English ballet scene, dancing with the Ballet Rambert and Vic Wells Ballet, as well as at Sadlers Wells. Dame Alicia danced the leading roles in Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Giselle, which became her trademark, illustrating her unique style of fragility and strength. In 1950, together with her dancing partner Anton Dolin, Dame Alicia founded The London Festival Ballet which eventually became the English National Ballet. She was still dancing Giselle at the age of 48 and had her last dance on stage in the early 1960s. Subsequently she has worked as director, patron and teacher and was awarded the CBE for services to dance in 1958. Her memory for dance steps has proved invaluable for dance historians, pupils and teachers alike.

   [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

   Favourite track: Softly Awakes my Heart from Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns
   Book: Speaking of Diaghilev by John Drummond
   Luxury: The perfume Knowing by Estee Lauder

10. Timothy Spall

    22 september 2002 · 34 min

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    Timothy Spall grew up in Battersea, South London. He found school pretty uninspiring and left with art as his only qualification. However, when he played the part of the Cowardly Lion in the school production of The Wizard of Oz, aged 16, he felt he had found his niche. He says "it had a good big audience and they just laughed, and when I came out to do my bow they gave me a big cheer. Something went off in my head then." He had a natural talent, and soon found a place at RADA. Within a year he was snapped up by the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played key roles such as Andre in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, a role which he was amazed to take over from Ian McKellan. It was a huge learning period and the critics weren't going to cut him any slack just because he was straight out of drama school. He says, "you're up there playing with the big boys so you learn pretty quick!" Lees meer

    His first TV part was as the Brummie builder, Barry, in Auf Weidersehen Pet in 1983 and he has had many TV roles since: Our Mutual Friend and Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise both earned him Best Actor nominations at the Baftas. His role in the Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies won him critical acclaim, as well as two best actor nominations, at the Baftas and at the London Film Critic Circle. He has also been sought by Hollywood, recently appearing in the blockbuster Vanilla Sky. He won best actor at Prix d'Italia and Cinema Tout Ecran awards for the television drama Shooting the Past and was awarded the OBE in 2000.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Mary's Prayer by Danny Wilson
    Book: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: A drum kit

11. Brian May

    15 september 2002 · 37 min

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    Brian May spent his childhood in Feltham near London and he learnt his first chords on his father's ukelele banjo. He soon progressed to the guitar, which he started learning when he was eight. He perfected his technique by buying records and copying the trickiest guitar parts. Although Brian's dream was to be a guitarist, it didn't seem like a reality so, encouraged by his parents, he went to London University's Imperial College to study physics. Whilst there he continued playing in bands with his drummer friend Roger Taylor. They were soon joined by art student Freddie Bulsara (who became Freddie Mercury) and John Deacon and formed Queen. Brian was researching infra red astronomy and part-time tutoring, but Queen soon hit the big time with their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, a success on both sides of the Atlantic. The band recorded 20 albums over a 22 year period and had frequent hits around the world with Killer Queen, Radio Ga Ga and Bohemian Rhapsody. Brian wrote huge Queen hits such as We will Rock You, Fat Bottomed Girls and Flash. They were known for their flamboyant live shows, where Brian provided technical brilliance and extended guitar solos inspired by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. When lead singer Freddie Mercury died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991, Brian and his fellow band members organised a huge tribute concert for AIDS research which was shown on television screens around the world. Lees meer

    Thirty-one years after Queen began, the band is still popular: Bohemian Rhapsody was voted most popular British song in a BBC Radio 2 poll this year, 24 years after its first release. Brian has also written and toured with his own band and in June this year he kicked off the Queen's Jubilee concert with an amazing guitar solo of The National Anthem from the roof of Buckingham Palace. This month he came fifth in a poll to find the World's Greatest Guitarists.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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12. Alan Titchmarsh

    7 juli 2002 · 37 min

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    Alan Titchmarsh was drawn to gardening from an early age in Ilkley, Yorkshire, making his first polythene greenhouse at the age of twelve and deciding he was going to be a gardener when he grew up. He left school at fifteen and became an apprentice gardener in the Parks Department of Ilkley Urban District Council, going on to horticultural college at the age of 18. His interest in English literature and writing prompted him to apply for a job as assistant editor of gardening books at Hamlyn Publishing and he began to write gardening books of his own, publishing his first in 1976. Lees meer

    Alan experienced his first taste of television when there was a plague of greenfly on the south coast and he was approached to report on it in Margate for Nationwide. He says, "I suddenly tasted blood. It was wow!, I like this. I want to do more." He became a presenter of Daytime Live, a Birmingham-based chat show, interviewing stars like Placido Domingo, Barry Manilow and Julia Roberts. He also presented Songs of Praise but never forgot his gardening, and took to the screens as a gardener with the amazingly successful garden make-over programme, Ground Force, in 1997. As well as presenting the more 'serious' gardening programme, Gardener's World, Alan recently took viewers back to basics with the series How to be a Gardener and, having written a grand total of thirty-seven gardening books, he remains the UK's premier gardener.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams
    Book: One of the 'Blandings' novels by P G Wodehouse
    Luxury: A box of watercolours

13. Minette Walters

    30 juni 2002 · 37 min

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    After Minette Walters' father died of injuries sustained in World War II she won a scholarship to Godolphin School, and eventually became Head Girl. From a young age she shunned girls' story books, preferring the more gripping Biggles and later, Agatha Christie. Her ambition was to be a writer. She says, "I just adored the whole thing of escapism into somebody else's world. When you're a writer and you are creating a world - you can only relate to one reader at a time, so it's: how do you persuade people? how can you draw the reader into that world so you can share it together? It's very exciting and any good writer, that is exactly what they do - they are tempting you into a world of their creation." Lees meer

    Minette Walters went to Durham University to read modern languages. When she left she took on barmaid and secretarial work that would allow her to continue her writing but all her many manuscripts, in particular plays to BBC Radio, were rejected. Her efforts in magazine publishing were more successful and, after a stint as an editor, she soon found herself writing 30,000 word hospital romances. She was inspired to attempt a novel and after having two children she turned her attention to crime fiction, a subject that had held her interest since childhood. But she says of The Dark Room: "there is virtually no comparison with Agatha Christie - it's much deeper and darker and more naturalistic, realistic, gritty. That's why I put 'fart' in the first paragraph, because I thought, whoever reads the first page of this book is not going to think they are reading an Agatha Christie!"

    She has written eight books in ten years and received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best crime novel published in America for The Sculptress and won the Gold Dagger Award for best British Crime novel in 1994 for The Scold's Bridle. Her books have been translated into 36 languages and five of her books have been made into television films. Minette says she never knows who has done the crime u…

14. Countess Elizabeth Longford

    23 juni 2002 · 38 min

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    Elizabeth Harman was born in London in 1906. Her parents were both doctors, her mother was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain and cousin of Neville Chamberlain, the future Prime Minister. She was one of only a few girls at that time to attend Oxford University. Joining the social set that included John Betjemen, Evelyn Waugh and Maurice Bowra, she became one of the first female Isis idols and was proposed to numerous times before she accepted Frank Pakenham, who was later to succeed to the Longford earldom. Ever since the occasion she was read Homer's Illiad as a child and felt sympathy for the Trojans, Elizabeth had developed a sympathy for the underdog. And when she began teaching at Oxford in a summer school for the working classes from the Potteries, this sympathy was consolidated. She became interested in politics and a Labour supporter and was to become a Labour party candidate twice, in 1935 and 1950, but never elected to parliament. Lees meer

    Elizabeth married Frank Pakenham in 1931 and they had eight children by 1947. Her experience and expertise with a large family came to the notice of The Daily Express, and she was soon to be writing a column. This led to her first book, Points for Parents, which was published in 1954. It was the start of her writing career. Her next subject, Queen Victoria, was more ambitious: she felt the Queen had been misrepresented in the past and by looking at her and Prince Albert as human beings she adopted a different approach. Elizabeth had access to the Royal archives at Windsor and spent many days in the library there imagining how the Queen would have lived. As well as her book on Victoria, Lady Longford wrote books about Wellington; The House of Windsor; Byron; The Queen Mother; and Queen Elizabeth, as well as her own autobiography. She remains an experienced authority on families and marriage: her own lasted almost seventy years until she was widowed last year.

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15. Jan Morris

    16 juni 2002 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Jan Morris.

16. Leonard Rosoman

    9 juni 2002 · 36 min

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    Leonard Rosoman's career saw him travel the world as an Official War Artist in the Second World War. He is also a member of the Royal Academy, an illustrator and teacher. The young Leonard dodged the family business by getting a scholarship to the Edward VII School of Art in Durham and went on to paint and teach. When war broke out Leonard was drafted into the Auxiliary Fire Service in London but he didn't stop painting, and he used his experiences to create some of his finest work. This drew him to the attention of the Home Office, and Sir Kenneth Clarke asked him if he would be an Official War Artist. He agreed and was appointed an official war artist to the Admiralty and was posted to the British Pacific Fleet. In April 1945 was posted to Sydney and from there he joined HMS Formidable. Lees meer

    After the war Leonard went back to teaching, first in London then to Edinburgh College of Art in 1948, and later on to the Royal College of Art where he met his most memorable student - David Hockney: "I didn't find him at all difficult, but it was a little bit scary because if anybody ever had something written on his forehead, he had. Every single member of that staff pretty well guaranteed that when David left, he would be a success of some kind. He was a very rare bird - he had a quality of understatement - rare and important in its way."

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo by Glenn Miller & his Orchestra
    Book: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
    Luxury: A sloping lawn

17. Sue Johnston

    26 mei 2002 · 34 min

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    Sue Johnston has rarely been out of work since she made her name in Brookside. Her versatility is clear, with credits including such varied programmes as acclaimed drama Goodbye Cruel World; the 1950s feel-good nostalgia series Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll; cult comedy The Royle Family and, most recently, psychological thriller Waking the Dead. Her early career was with the Pilkington Glass Factory, where she got a job in the pensions department specifically so she could join their amateur dramatics group. After rebelling against her parents wishes and attending drama school in London, Sue acted in repertory theatre until her mid-30s. Lees meer

    Having a son brought new responsibilities and, realising the bonus of a regular income and regular hours, she auditioned for Channel 4's Brookside. She became a household name and recognised as Sheila Grant wherever she went. She left after eight years and never looked back: her first role was as a motor neurone sufferer in Goodbye Cruel World, for which she was Bafta nominated and she has been in demand ever since. She was also Bafta nominated for her role as lovable put-upon mum Barbara in The Royle Family, which in 1998 and 2000 won British Comedy Awards.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and the Pacemakers
    Book: Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
    Luxury: BBC Radio 5 Live

18. Suggs

    19 mei 2002 · 34 min

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    Suggs made his name as front man of 80s pop phenomenon Madness and impressed a whole generation with his unique style of singing, silly dancing and fondness for making the mundane the subject of his songs, such as Baggy Trousers, inspired by memories of school. Although his cockney accent is part of his singing style, he was actually born in Hastings and moved to London as a child. His singer mother was perhaps a subconscious inspiration, but Suggs didn't have any particular ambitions in his teens. He dropped out of school and did what a lot of teenage boys do - formed a band with his friends. Lees meer

    Madness, a seven-piece gang of friends, became a huge success. Their first single 'The Prince' went to number 16 in 1979 and three years later they had a number one with House of Fun. In seven years they had 20 singles in the top twenty UK chart and travelled the world playing to large audiences. Now Madness occasionally meet up and play their hits list, and Suggs has launched a successful solo career and is also working in TV, hosting Night Fever on Channel 5 and captaining a team on BBC1's A Question of Pop.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee
    Book: A concise book of Italian verbs
    Luxury: A nucleus of bees

19. Sir Aaron Klug

    12 mei 2002 · 35 min

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    Sir Aaron Klug grew up in Durban, South Africa on the edge of the Bush, which provided him with enough snakes and monkeys to satisfy his curiosity. A bright child, he read anything that was available and enjoyed an idyllic childhood. He started studying medicine at university level in Johannesburg at the age of fifteen, but soon switched to chemistry, physics and mathematics, which provided more stimulus for his enquiring mind. Lees meer

    He began to research at Cape Town University and later Cambridge, where he joined the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory and later the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. His work led to him winning the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1982 for his work on cell structure.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: The Ode to Joy (Symphony No 9) by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: A set of books on Roman Republican and Imperial coinage
    Luxury: A set of mixed Greek and Roman coinage

20. Jude Kelly

    5 mei 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the theatre director Jude Kelly. Currently based at the West Yorkshire Playhouse - which under her creative directorship has become The National Theatre of the North, Kelly is known for her enthusiasm to bring the arts to everyone, and embracing new ideas in the creative arts. Lees meer

    In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: In A Landscape by John Cage
    Book: A specially commissioned complete history of art book, with sections by John Berger, David Hockney and Jeanette Winterson among others
    Luxury: A notebook and pencil

21. Betty Jackson

    28 april 2002 · 33 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the fashion designer Betty Jackson. For three decades Betty Jackson has been at the cutting edge of the British Fashion scene and this year presented her 40th show at London Fashion week. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Dusty Springfield
    Book: Vision: 50 Years of Creativity by Melvyn Bragg
    Luxury: Red lipstick

22. Wayne Marshall

    21 april 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the organist Wayne Marshall. He describes himself as a virtuosic performer, preferring to play "loud and fast". The energy he brings to his performances has brought him fans from around the world. He is a renowned interpreter of Gershwin on the piano, also conducts and he has turned his hand to composing - his first work was published in 2001. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin
    Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
    Luxury: A Steinway model D piano, specially conditioned to deal with all weathers

23. Sir Christopher Bland

    14 april 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Chairman of BT, Sir Christopher Bland. Passionately interested in business, Sir Christopher's business career maps a total of 18 different business and industries, about which he says "I was shocked!" It also includes Chairmanships of LWT and the BBC. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Write Myself a Letter by Fats Waller
    Book: The collected works by John Donne
    Luxury: Two and half miles of the Hampshire Chalk Stream

24. Fiona Reynolds

    7 april 2002 · 36 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Director General of the National Trust, Fiona Reynolds. Passionate about the countryside, the job at the National Trust was a dream come true for Fiona, but six weeks into the job she was faced with Foot and Mouth and had to make the drastic decision to close almost all of the National Trust properties. Lees meer

    In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: The Salutation from Dies Natalis by Finzi
    Book: The Making of the English Landscape by W G Hoskins
    Luxury: The full collection of Ordnance Survey maps of the British Isles

25. Gordon Ramsay

    31 maart 2002 · 33 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the chef Gordon Ramsay, the only British chef in the country to have three Michelin stars, at his eponymous restaurant in London. He has recently become 'chef Patron' (head chef) at the restaurant at Claridges, owns two more restaurants, Pétrus in London and Amaryllis in Glasgow and is the author of four books. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Yellow by Coldplay
    Book: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
    Luxury: A fresh vanilla pod

26. Dorothy Rowe

    24 maart 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the psychologist Dorothy Rowe, author of groundbreaking books on depression such as Choosing not Losing, Breaking the Bonds and The Courage to Live. Translated into 12 languages, her books have helped many people round the world learn about themselves. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Finale (Allegro vivace) by Franz Schubert
    Book: The Oxford Companion to the Body by Professor Colin Blakemore
    Luxury: A snorkelling suit with prescription goggles

27. Fay Godwin

    17 maart 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the landscape photographer Fay Godwin. Her evocative pictures brought Fay Godwin to the notice of the poet Ted Hughes and their collaboration Remains of Elmet led Fay to "discover Britain through the soles of her feet", taking photographs as she walked the length and breadth of the British Isles. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: 5th movement, String Quartet No 13 in Bflat by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Rattlebag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes
    Luxury: Egg tempura paints, brushes, and boards to paint on

28. Dame Beryl Grey

    10 maart 2002 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the ballerina, Dame Beryl Grey. When she joined Sadlers Wells at 14 she quickly took on leading roles and became Britain's first 'Baby Ballerina'. In the late 1950s she left the Royal Ballet to pursue a glittering freelance career - becoming the first Western ballerina to perform at the Bolshoi. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: The Beginning of the Third Movement by Jean Sibelius
    Book: This Sceptred Isle by Christopher Lee
    Luxury: Box of watercolour paints

29. Lord May

    3 maart 2002 · 35 min

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    This week's Sue Lawley's castaway is the President of the Royal Society, Lord May. Lees meer

    During his tenure as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, between 1995 and 2000, Bob May gained a reputation for speaking his mind on subjects ranging from GM foods to embryology. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Parsifal by Richard Wagner
    Book: Capablanca's Hundred Best Games of Chess by Hans Golombek
    Luxury: Isle of Lewis chess set from The British Museum

30. Sue MacGregor

    24 februari 2002 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster Sue MacGregor. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: History of the World by J M Roberts
    Luxury: Unlimited supply of sun block (nicely scented)

31. Kazuo Ishiguro

    17 februari 2002 · 34 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the award-winning writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. Titles such as When We Were Orphans, An Artist of the Floating World and the Booker prize-winning The Remains of the Day have made Kazuo Ishiguro a household name all over the world. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Trying To Get To Heaven by Bob Dylan
    Book: Collected short stories by Anton Chekhov
    Luxury: Big roll of paper

32. Sir Paul Nurse

    10 februari 2002 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Sir Paul Nurse, the Director General of Science for the charity Cancer Research UK. Thanks to his work on the genes controlling the division of cancer cells, Sir Paul was one of three scientists to share the Nobel Prize for Medicine last year. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Dancing In The Street by David Bowie/Mick Jagger
    Book: Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
    Luxury: A telescope

33. David Linley

    3 februari 2002 · 33 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Viscount Linley. The son of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon has always made a point of playing down his royal connections. Having set up his own company specialising in bespoke furniture, David Linley is now one of the country's most fervent advocates for modern craftsmanship. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto in C Minor K.491: 2nd Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
    Luxury: A guitar

34. Phyllis Sellick

    27 januari 2002 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the pianist, Phyllis Sellick. Lees meer

    Phyllis Sellick enjoyed a glittering career as a solo performer but was just as well known as one half of a duo, with her husband Cyril Smith. Then he suffered a stroke and lost the use of his left arm, but by adapting the music they continued to perform together successfully in Britain and abroad. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Serenade To Music (Excerpt) by Vaughan Williams
    Book: The Oxford Companion to Music
    Luxury: Clockwork radio tuned to Radio 4

35. Bob Worcester

    20 januari 2002 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is pollster Bob Worcester. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Organ Symphony in C Minor: Finale by Camille Saint-Saëns
    Book: Globes at Greenwich by Elly Dekker
    Luxury: Celestial and terrestrial globes

36. Susana Walton

    13 januari 2002 · 37 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lady Walton. Within two weeks of meeting the composer Sir William Walton, Susana Gil Passo had accepted his marriage proposal and left her home in Argentina. When they moved to the island of Ischia, she began transforming the barren land into what is now La Mortella - one of the most famous and beautiful gardens of the Mediterranean. It boasts more than 600 exotic plants - including tree ferns, jacaranda and the huge Victoria Amazonica Waterlily - and is the backdrop to summer concerts organised in Sir William's memory. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Troilus and Cressida, Act Two by Sir William Walton
    Book: The Education of a Gardener by Russel Page
    Luxury: Downy pillow

37. Sir Peter Morris

    6 januari 2002 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is President of the Royal College of Surgeons Sir Peter Morris. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Aubrey and Maturin Series 20-Volume Complete Hardcover Set by Patrick O'Brien
    Luxury: Set of golf clubs and balls

38. Ewan McGregor

    30 december 2001 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the actor Ewan McGregor. In the last 10 years, Ewan McGregor has become a star on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to films such as Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, Brassed Off and Star Wars - the Phantom Menace. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Dark Lochnagar by Jimmy O'Brien Moran
    Book: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Chromatic Harmonica

39. Jamie Oliver

    23 december 2001 · 33 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is TV chef Jamie Oliver. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Only To Be With You by Roachford
    Book: Doesn't read books - needs notepaper and pens to write recipes
    Luxury: Leatherman - like a Swiss army knife but more substantial

40. Anne Fine

    16 december 2001 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Children's Laureate Anne Fine. She wrote her first book because a blizzard prevented her going to the library and there was nothing to read in the house! That was in the 1970s. Now she has more than 60 books in print, won numerous awards and seen one novel - Madam Doubtfire turned into a successful film starring Robin Williams. In conversation with Sue Lawley, she talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Domine Deus from B Minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
    Luxury: Pencil and paper

41. Cameron Mackintosh

    9 december 2001 · 34 min

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    When, at the tender age of eight, Sir Cameron Mackintosh went to see a production of Salad Days, he was so entranced that he introduced himself to the show's composer Julian Slade and decided immediately to become a producer. Those early ambitions were not misplaced; in the last 20 years Sir Cameron has produced a string of hits - from Cats and Miss Saigon to Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and My Fair Lady. He is Sue Lawley's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Pie Jesu (from Requiem) (1985) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Book: Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith
    Luxury: Solar-powered Magimix

42. Rt Hon William Hague MP

    2 december 2001 · 36 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon. William Hague, MP for Richmond. He talks about his childhood in Yorkshire, his rapid rise within the Conservative party and his aspirations now that he is no longer the party's leader. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Enigma Variation No. 9 - Nimrod by Edward Elgar
    Book: The Master of the Senate - the Years of Lyndon Johnson (3rd Volume) by Robert Caro
    Luxury: Dojo

43. Ken Follett

    25 november 2001 · 36 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the writer Ken Follett. Novels such as Eye of the Needle, The Pillars of the Earth and The Third Twin have put him in the best seller lists all over the world - although when he started writing his first novel his agent suggested he use a pseudonym in case he "wanted to write something better later!". In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Beginning of Violin Concerto No 3 in G Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Luxury: Entire cellar of a great collector of French wine

44. Billy Connolly

    18 november 2001 · 35 min

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    This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the comedian and actor, Billy Connolly. His one-man shows continue to pack venues on both sides of the Atlantic and his performances in films such as Mrs Brown, The Debt Collector and The Imposters have won him great critical acclaim. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Hank Williams
    Book: Oxford English Dictionary
    Luxury: Banjo

45. Simon Schama

    2 september 2001 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the historian Simon Schama. Books such as The Embarrassment of Riches, Landscape and Memory and Citizens have won Simon Schama countless awards and critical acclaim, and he takes a break from his latest project - the BBC television series A History of Britain - to choose eight records for his desert island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 in C Major 'Great' by Franz Schubert
    Book: The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
    Luxury: Bethsheba by Rembrandt

46. Lord Roll

    26 augustus 2001 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Lord Roll. Lees meer

    Now in his 90s, Eric Roll is enjoying his third career as an investment banker. As a young man he was a talented academic, but he left university life in the 40s to join the civil service. There he was regarded as one of the cleverest negotiators of his generation, working with Ernest Bevin on the Marshall Plan, Edward Heath on EEC membership and Harold Wilson on the Department of Economic Affairs. Lord Roll chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island.

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Luxury: Cassette recorder and cassettes

47. Bruce Fogle

    19 augustus 2001 · 34 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the vet Bruce Fogle. His interest in the relationship between pets and their owners has turned Bruce Fogle into a best selling author on dog and cat behaviour. His advice on how to tackle unruly animals has helped readers all over the world. He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: It's Me Oh Lord by Hank Jones
    Book: Canoe Craft
    Luxury: Molecular engineering laboratory - to construct a 'dog'

48. Joss Ackland

    12 augustus 2001 · 35 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is actor Joss Ackland. Lees meer

    Favourite track: My Cup Runneth Over by Mary Martin and Robert Preston
    Book: The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
    Luxury: A huge jar of liquorice

49. Lord Deedes

    5 augustus 2001 · 34 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Lord Deedes. In a journalistic career spanning 70 years, Bill Deedes has witnessed and written about some of the most important milestones of the 20th century. He chooses eight records to take with him to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: God Bless Africa by George Fenton/Janas Gwangwa
    Book: Original Prayer Book without any amendments
    Luxury: Mister Trumper's aftershave

50. Claudia Roden

    29 juli 2001 · 35 min

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    This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the award-winning cookery writer Claudia Roden whose Book of Middle Eastern Food revolutionised Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East. Her Book of Jewish Food has been described as 'the richest and most sensuous encyclopaedia of Jewish life ever set in print'. She chooses eight records to take with her to the mythical island. Lees meer

    [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

    Favourite track: L'Accordeoniste by Edith Piaf
    Book: A La Recherche Du Temps by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Oil paints and brushes