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Bruce Forsyth

1 december 1996 · 38 min

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This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs may be nearing 70, but he knows how to play The Generation Game. Bruce Forsyth is one of the great all-rounders - television host, pianist, dancer and comedian. Lees meer

He began performing as a child, tap-dancing on the roof of his father's lock-up garages. But, as he tells Sue Lawley, his big night came when he was asked to compere Sunday Night at the Palladium. He has spent more than five decades in showbiz, progressing from Boy Bruce the Mighty Atom, to probably the most successful game show host on television. To quote one of his own famous catchphrases, "Didn't he do well?"

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

Favourite track: I'll Never Love This Way Again by Dionne Warwick
Book: The collected works by Omar Khayyam
Luxury: Sand iron (golf club)

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

24 november 1996 · 35 min

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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the Leader of the Opposition, the Right Honourable Tony Blair. He will be describing his beliefs, both political and religious, and revealing the man behind the sound bites. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Recuerdos De La Alhambra by John Williams
Book: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Luxury: Guitar

Tessa Sanderson

17 november 1996 · 36 min

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Atlanta was her sixth Olympic Games. The first was 20 years before. On Desert Island Discs, Tessa Sanderson reveals the competitive drive that brought her back from retirement at the age of 40 to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She fondly recalls her rivalry with fellow competitor Fatima Whitbread, and remembers the moment she became the first and only British woman to win an Olympic throwing gold medal. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts
Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

10 november 1996 · 39 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a writer, a traveller and an advisor to a Prince and Prime Minister. Lees meer

Now nearly 90, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early years in South Africa, his incarceration as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and his life-long campaign to save the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.

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

Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 17 in Dm 'Tempest' by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Golden Bough by James Frazer
Luxury: Piano

Chris Patten

3 november 1996 · 38 min

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He's called "His Excellency" by some; to others he's "Fatty Patten". Next year he will hand over Hong Kong to the Chinese. Lees meer

Chris Patten, this week's castaway on Desert Island Discs, describes the challenges of being the colony's last British Governor. He recalls the moment he won the election for the Conservative Party, but lost his own seat, and how, as Environment Secretary, he found himself implementing "the single most unpopular policy that any British government has tried to introduce since the last war" - the poll tax.

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

Favourite track: Mass No. 18 in C minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Luxury: A bath

Jancis Robinson

27 oktober 1996 · 39 min

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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the wine writer Jancis Robinson. Lees meer

One of only 200 Masters of Wine in the world, she recalls how her passion was first aroused by a full-bodied Chambolle-Musigny. It was, she says, the first time she realised that wine was an intellectual experience and not just for lubrication. A familiar face on television for her Matters of Taste and Wine Course series, she also edited the prestigious Oxford Companion to Wine. But her main occupation is tasting, and she can sip and spit more than a hundred varieties at a sitting.

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

Favourite track: Sabat Mater Inflammatus Et Accensus by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Luxury: Cellar of wines and a corkscrew

Jackie Charlton

20 oktober 1996 · 37 min

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The ball rolled past the gap between him and Gordon Banks and into the back of the net. The Germans were one goal up. Lees meer

This week's castaway, Jackie Charlton, recalls the match which was to bring him to his knees in relief and joy as England went on to win the 1966 World Cup. Just one of the crowning moments of a career that could so easily have ended down the pit, except for his talent with the ball. Nicknamed "The Boss" because of his straight talking, Jackie describes his relationship with his brother "Our Kid" Bobby Charlton and his success as manager of Ireland.

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

Favourite track: September Song by Frank Sinatra
Book: Encyclopaedia of How To Survive
Luxury: Fishing rod

Rumer Godden

13 oktober 1996 · 41 min

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Always an outsider, she seems to have gone against all the mores of her time; from opening a dancing school in Calcutta to living alone with her children in Kashmir. On Desert Island Discs this week, the writer Rumer Godden describes how her rich life in India (under the Raj) and in Britain has influenced her novels. Lees meer

She says she can't remember a time when she didn't write. Now in her late 80s, and after publishing more than 50 books, including Black Narcissus and The River, she's just added another to her list.

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

Favourite track: Kinderscenen Traumerei by Robert Schumann
Book: The Atlantic book of British and American Poetry by Edith Sitwell
Luxury: A widow's cruse filled with whisky

Lewis Wolpert

6 oktober 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Professor Lewis Wolpert. As Chairman of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, he is a passionate advocate of the value of science and the increasing need for the recognition and promotion of its importance. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early life in South Africa, his recent struggle with clinical depression and his passion for the views of the 18th-century philosopher David Hume - particularly on the existence of God. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and The Principles of Morals by David Hume
Luxury: Bicycle

Ben Elton

29 september 1996 · 36 min

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His fourth novel, Popcorn, has been widely-acclaimed by the critics. He's about to begin a nationwide tour with his stand-up comedy routine. And, after the success of his TV series The Young Ones and Blackadder, he's currently writing The Thin Blue Line for BBC1. Yet despite all that, Ben Elton, this week's castaway, says he's more of an enthusiastic 'farty' than a "smug git in a shiny suit". Lees meer

He muses as to whether his scatter-gun delivery (so mocked by the tabloids) is the result of his fear of the audience, or of a self-righteous belief in his own opinion, and when stranded on a desert island, he will reveal himself as a serious satirist or just a maverick motormouth.

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

Favourite track: And Your Bird Can Sing by The Beatles
Book: His wedding photo album
Luxury: The British Museum

Fran Landesman

22 september 1996 · 32 min

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She has written songs for her friends Barbra Streisand and Bette Davis, and admires Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn. This week, the poet and lyricist Fran Landesman chooses her eight records. Lees meer

Although now in her 60s, retired to her bed and celibate, she is still writing lyrics and performing her poetry and has just published a new collection of her work. From poor little rich girl to a life of bohemian excess, she looks back at her experiences - free love, free speech and mind-expanding drugs - on Desert Island Discs.

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

Favourite track: Down by Nicki Leighton Thomas
Book: Rebel Without Applause and Jay Walking by Jay Landesman
Luxury: Cannabis seeds

Kevin Whately

15 september 1996 · 33 min

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The castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the actor Kevin Whately. Having appeared increasingly prominently in three of the most successful series in recent TV history - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Inspector Morse and Peak Practice - he's currently 'hot property' in the casting world. Lees meer

He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in a remote part of Cumbria, his bold but inspired decision to chuck in accountancy in favour of the stage and his time busking at Oxford Circus to pay his way through drama school.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 1 by Jean Sibelius
Book: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Luxury: Northumbrian pipes

Professor Colin Blakemore

8 september 1996 · 38 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the scientist Colin Blakemore. A brilliant student, he became an Oxford professor at the age of 35 and since then he has commanded enormous influence through his research and the way he has tried to communicate the importance of science to the world at large. Lees meer

He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his main work - the functioning of the human brain - and about his research on the relationship between vision and brain development. He'll also be describing how his experiments in this area involving animals have made him the target of attacks from animal rights activists.

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

Favourite track: Die Zauberflote Oittre Nicht - The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin
Luxury: Solar-powered internet (to receive, not send)

Sir Terence Conran

1 september 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the designer and entrepreneur Terence Conran. He first came to fame with the Habitat store which introduced British shoppers to consumer delights like the chicken brick and the duvet. Now considered one of the country's most successful restaurateurs - he currently owns seven restaurants and is involved in designing another 17 - he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his original foray into the restaurant world. His first venture was called The Soup Kitchen - and, misled by its name, attracted all the local tramps on its opening night. Lees meer

He'll also be describing how Picasso bought one of the first chairs he designed. Finally, he'll be talking about how, after a somewhat tumultuous personal life, he now feels he has achieved some sort of equanimity.

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

Favourite track: Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert Part One by Keith Jarrett
Book: History of the World by H G Wells
Luxury: An endless supply of A4 paper and 4B pencils

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

25 augustus 1996 · 38 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. One of the most distinguished members of the English Chamber Orchestra, she has toured all over the world with them. Lees meer

However, as she will be telling Sue Lawley, up until the early 1980s, she always refused to visit one country - Germany. For it was from there that her Jewish parents were taken away by the Gestapo, never to be seen again. From the age of 18, she herself was taken away to Auschwitz. There, because she was able to play the cello, she survived, and played in the camp's orchestra. However, when she was later moved to Belsen, she nearly didn't. She'll be talking about playing in the orchestra at Auschwitz, about the importance of music in sustaining life both then and now, and about her feelings towards Germany and the Germans more than 50 years after the events of her early life.

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

Favourite track: Piano Sonata Opus 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts
Luxury: Cello

André Previn

18 augustus 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the composer and conductor André Previn. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he and his family fled from Nazi Germany and ended up in California. His skill as a jazz musician led to a job at MGM and four Oscars for the film scores he wrote there. However, in the mid-1960s he turned his back on Hollywood and became principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He'll be discussing this dramatic transition, his famous appearance on the Morecambe and Wise Show and the perils of his now-abandoned celebrity status. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The collected works by Anton Chekhov
Luxury: Piano

Quentin Crewe

16 juni 1996 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the journalist and author Quentin Crewe. Since the age of 29, muscular dystrophy has left him in a wheelchair. Nevertheless, now 70, he can look back on a full and vivid life encompassing a 24,000 mile trip across South America and expeditions across the Sahara and the Saudi Arabian desert. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his travels, his close relationship with the Macmillan family, his work as a writer and restaurant critic and also his belief that disability need be no bar to a happy and fulfilled life. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: String Quintet In C Major 163 by Franz Schubert
Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Luxury: The cellar from Trinity College, Cambridge

Peggy Mount

9 juni 1996 · 34 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Peggy Mount. Now 80 years old, and about to play the nanny in Uncle Vanya at Chichester this summer, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her long and distinguished career as one of the nation's favourite battleaxes. With her booming voice, and imposing figure, playing parts like the nurse in Romeo and Juliet and the headmistress in The Happiest Days of your Life, she has earned the affection of millions. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Portrait Of My Love by Matt Munro
Book: Diary by Noel Coward
Luxury: Tea in abundance

Gerry Robinson

2 juni 1996 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a businessman who started life as one of 10 children in a poor family in Donegal, moved with his family to London's East End and started his career at Matchbox Toys in Hackney. From there, he worked his way up the corporate ladder of several large companies until 10 years ago he organised and led a management buy-out of Compass - part of Grand Metropolitan. Lees meer

Now extremely rich in his own right, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the controversy he then attracted. Known as 'The Caterer' because of his business background, he went on to acquire London Weekend Television and controversially to take over the Forte Group. He'll be discussing his early ambitions to be a priest, his days at a seminary, the high-achieving nature of his family and how he coped with the stress of the Granada takeover of the Forte Group.

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

Favourite track: Norma Casta Diva by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts
Luxury: Painting kit (easel, oils, brushes)

Michael White

26 mei 1996 · 35 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the producer Michael White. Renowned for his theatrical flair - with a string of successes such as Sleuth, The Rocky Horror Show, O, Calcutta and A Chorus Line - he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the downside of show business as well as the euphoria of the successful first night. He'll also be describing his cosmopolitan but miserable childhood. Sent away to school in Switzerland alone and just seven years old because of chronic asthma, his early years were often lonely and confusing. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Coming In From The Cold by Bob Marley
Book: A title by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Bicycle

Janet Holmes à Court

19 mei 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Janet Holmes à Court. Recently named Businesswoman of the Year, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, after the sudden death of her husband, the hugely rich Robert Holmes a Court, she was advised to sell up and retire to the beach. Before his death, he had just been starting to turn the tide which had run against him after he'd lost around £400 million in the stock market crash of 1987. Forgetting the beach, she proceeded to take up the reins of the business. Over the last six years, she has created an impressive commercial organisation out of cattle, construction and transport, she owns 10 theatres in London's West End and her cattle company is estimated to own about 1.1% of Australia's land mass. The owner of a desert island herself, she'll be contemplating exile far from the demands of the business world. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Tourmaline by Randolph Stow
Luxury: Jar of Vegemite

Hugh Laurie

12 mei 1996 · 36 min

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Sue Lawley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Laurie. Lees meer

Favourite track: Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison
Book: A self-learn Italian book (slowly)
Luxury: Family photo album

Pauline Quirke

5 mei 1996 · 35 min

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BBC TV's Birds Of A Feather is one of the country's favourite comedy programmes, attracting audiences of 14 or 15 million on a Sunday evening. This week, one of its co-stars, Pauline Quirke, will be cast well away from Chigwell as she prepares to set sail for Radio 4's desert island. Lees meer

Known more famously perhaps as Sharon of Sharon 'n' Tracey, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her poor upbringing in London's East End, her first role as a child arsonist at the age of 10 in Dixon of Dock Green and her most recent appearance as a 22-stone putative murderess in The Sculptress.

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

Favourite track: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
Book: Crying With Laughter by Bob Monkhouse
Luxury: Shampoo

Mitsuko Uchida

28 april 1996 · 39 min

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This week, Sue Lawley's desert island castaway is the pianist Mitsuko Uchida. She was born in Japan, but, when she was 12, her family moved to Vienna, where she fully immersed herself in the music that she has now become famous for playing - Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and in particular, Mozart. Her aim is to be always faithful to the composer whose work she is trying to interpret. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Cello Suite No 1 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A title, in Russian and English, by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Piano

Hanif Kureishi

21 april 1996 · 35 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his enormously successful screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette, his novel - televised by the BBC - The Buddha of Suburbia and his love of pop music which he plays at full volume whilst writing. Lees meer

He'll also be discussing the racial abuse which dominated his childhood in Bromley, where, as the son of an Indian father and an English mother, and the only Asian boy in his school, he was invited to instigate racial bullying, as often as finding himself to be its target.

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

Favourite track: In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Book: Complete Works by Sigmund Freud
Luxury: Marijuana seeds

Viscount Rothermere

14 april 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Viscount Rothermere. As proprietor of the Daily Mail, the Mail On Sunday, London's Evening Standard and a string of regional newspapers, he is the last of the hereditary grandees who once dominated the newspaper industry. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his family's long involvement with newspapers, about his own views on the ethical problems facing the press today and about his ability to see into the future. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down On The Farm by Eddie Cantor
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: A pair of scissors

Dickie Bird

7 april 1996 · 35 min

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This summer will see what will be a sad day in Test cricket history: Dickie Bird, who has umpired 65 Test matches, 92 one-day internationals and three world cup finals, will be umpiring his last Test match at Lords. Lees meer

This week in Desert Island Discs, he will be talking to Sue Lawley about his church-going childhood in Barnsley, and his anxieties about punctuality - arriving as he has done at least four hours before time at Buckingham Palace, Chequers and The Oval.

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

Favourite track: The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand
Book: Wisden Almanack for cricketers by Wisden
Luxury: TV & satellite to watch Test matches

Simon Weston

31 maart 1996 · 35 min

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Nearly 14 years ago, the young Simon Weston set off to serve with his regiment in the Falklands War. On 8th June 1982 in Bluff Cove, his ship was bombed, most of his friends were killed, but he survived. Lees meer

This week on Desert Island Discs, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about that shattering moment, his subsequent rehabilitation and how his disfigurement has affected his life.

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

Favourite track: What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Book: Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
Luxury: Daily newspapers

Kyra Vayne

24 maart 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is someone who has unexpectedly encountered professional acclaim late in her life. Lees meer

Singer Kyra Vayne could well be described as one of opera's forgotten voices - until this year when, thanks to the release of some previously-unknown recordings which had lived under her bed in Shepherd's Bush for 30 years, her voice reached a large new audience of admirers. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her reaction to the ecstatic reception given to her first CD, how she lived a life of obscurity working in a bank after she abandoned her career and about her life in pre-revolution Russia, where she and her family nearly starved to death before fleeing to England.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 9 Final Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: A culinary book
Luxury: Peanuts and treats to tame animals and birds

Lord Alexander

17 maart 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Chairman of the National Westminster Bank Lord Alexander. Lees meer

He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he began his career as a jobbing barrister, doing all manner of work on the western circuit where he earned a reputation which took him to the top of his profession. Among many others, he won cases for Jeffrey Archer and Kerry Packer, and lost one for Ken Livingstone's GLC. In the 1980s he moved to the City as Chairman of the Takeover Panel and then, to his surprise, he was invited to become Chairman of the National Westminster Bank. Tipped by those who know him well to become the next Lord Chancellor if the Conservatives stay in power, he'll be discussing his past, present and future and contemplating castaway life.

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

Favourite track: Do You Hear The People Sing? by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Book: Other Men's Flowers by Lord A P Wavell
Luxury: Paints and canvas

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

3 maart 1996 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he was an early 'fast-track' pupil - going to Edinburgh University at 16 - their youngest student for 50 years, about the reasons behind his standing aside in favour of Tony Blair in the contest for the Labour leadership, and about his childhood as one of three sons of a Scottish minister. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Suite No. 3 in D major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Story of Art by Sir Ernst Gombrich
Luxury: Tennis ball machine and racket

Sir Roy Calne

25 februari 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a surgeon and a painter. Lees meer

Sir Roy Calne - Professor of Surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge - will be talking to Sue Lawley about his early conviction that transplant surgery was a viable way of treating kidney and liver disease, about his struggles to have his ideas accepted and about the paintings he has done of his patients - many of which have been the subject of several public exhibitions.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 9 From The New World (Opus 95) by Antonin Dvořák
Book: Global Biodiversity by Brian Groombridge
Luxury: Paints and canvas

Professor George Steiner

18 februari 1996 · 38 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Professor George Steiner. One of the most prominent intellectuals of our time, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how the English academic establishment has taken decades to accept him despite his early popularity as a Cambridge lecturer, and about the problem of reconciling the love of beauty with great acts of evil.
He'll also be describing how his family left Austria for France in the 1920s and how he was one of only two boys to survive in his class in the largely Jewish lycee he attended in Paris. Lees meer

When asked to select just one record to take to the island, Professor George said that for him, it was all or nothing.

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

Book: 500 year ahead calendar and appointment book
Luxury: Computer

Susan Hill

11 februari 1996 · 38 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the country's best-known novelists. Lees meer

Author of I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting and The Woman in Black, among many other books, Susan Hill will be talking to Sue Lawley about the inspiration for her recent and highly-acclaimed sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca; about the loneliness which characterised her childhood and about the relationship between tragedy in her own life and the way she writes about it in her novels.

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

Favourite track: Tom Bowling by Benjamin Britten
Book: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Luxury: The Barnes Collection (paintings)

Eve Arnold

4 februari 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the world's outstanding photojournalists, Eve Arnold. The first American woman member of the famous photographic co-operative, Magnum, she'll be talking about how her passion for photography began with the present of a camera, and how, since then, she has travelled the world in search of arresting pictures, living with hippy communes and with the black power movement, as well as photographing some of the great movie stars, including Paul Newman, Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe, with whom she had a close friendship for 10 years. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Flute Concerto No 1 in D Major Op 44R Op 44 by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Arabian Nights (1000 and One Nights)
Luxury: Dark room, film and camera

Julian Barnes

28 januari 1996 · 38 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Julian Barnes. Since his first novel - Metroland - was published when he was 34, he has written another eight and won four literary prizes - most famously perhaps for Flaubert's Parrot. Lees meer

He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for Flaubert, his love for Leicester City, his notions of love and his fear of death.

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

Favourite track: Requiem Dies Irae (from Requiem) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Letters by Gustave Flaubert
Luxury: Writing equipment

Chili Bouchier

21 januari 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the only surviving British star of the silent screen. Chili Bouchier will be talking to Sue Lawley about some of the perils of making silent movies and her transition into the talkies with hugely successful films like Carnival and Gypsy. She'll also be describing the ups and downs of a personal life which has been as vivid as her many films - encompassing two disastrous marriages with men who betrayed her, marriage proposals from Howard Hughes and breaking her Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers which meant she was blackballed and unable to make another film. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise by Acker Bilk
Book: In Tune With The Infinite: Fullness of Peace Power by Ralph Waldo Trine
Luxury: Make-up kit

Jimmy McGovern

14 januari 1996 · 35 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the playwright Jimmy McGovern. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the TV series Cracker - one of the top television series of the 1990s - about how much of the central character, Fitz, is modelled on himself, how he feels about the violent world it portrays and about why we are fascinated by criminal psychology. For seven years a writer on Brookside, he'll be describing how the phenomenal success of Cracker led to the reviving of his previously-rejected scripts for films like Priest and Hearts and Minds. He'll also be relating how the man who has since made a living out of words had such a bad stammer as a child that he was largely unintelligible. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: When I Fall In Love by Nat King Cole
Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
Luxury: Haemorrhoid ointment

Christopher Hampton

7 januari 1996 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Christopher Hampton. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his multiplicity of talents - after obtaining a first at Oxford he went straight to the Royal Court Theatre in London where he wrote several highly-regarded plays, among them The Philanthropist. He then went on to win an Oscar for his screenplay of the film Dangerous Liaisons, to translate the work of Ibsen and Chekhov, to write the book for Sunset Boulevard, and, most recently, to direct the film Carrington, which he also wrote. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Requiem: The Lachrymosa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A title by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Pen and paper

Lady Margaret Tebbit

31 december 1995 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Margaret Tebbit. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the night 11 years ago when the IRA detonated a huge bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where she was staying with her husband for the Tory Party Conference. Since that dreadful night, she has been severely paralysed, and she'll be describing the effect on her life: the dreams she has in which she no longer has to use a wheelchair, the new friends she's made and the old ones who turned out not to be such good friends in adversity and how her previous experience of mental illness - in the form of severe depression - compares with her current physical incapacity. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Nocturne by Evert Taube
Book: Hillier's Dictionary of Plants by Hillier
Luxury: An endless team of Man Fridays

Petula Clark

24 december 1995 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is an entertainer who has managed to captivate a generation. Petula Clark will be talking to Sue Lawley about how the British still perceive her as 'our pet' since her early singing days when she was chosen to sing in Trafalgar Square on VE night. Now, arguably the biggest female recording star Britain has ever produced, she is about to take on the lead role in Sunset Boulevard in the West End. In between, hits like The Little Shoemaker, Down Town and Don't Sleep in the Subway ensured she became an international star as well - captivating audiences in America and France. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Piano Concerto 21 in C K 467 - Andante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A title by Peter Ustinov
Luxury: Her piano

Barbara Dickson

17 december 1995 · 35 min

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The castaway this week in Desert Island Discs is the singer and actress Barbara Dickson. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how she progressed from being the daughter of a Rothsyth docker to the lead role in Willy Russell's play John, Paul, Ringo and Bert, and later to win an award for her performance in his play Blood Brothers. Along the way, her extraordinary singing voice brought her a string of hit singles, including I Know Him So Well, while recently her acting abilities landed her one of the leading roles in ITV's Band of Gold. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight by James Taylor
Book: English & Scottish Ballads by Francis Child
Luxury: A very large set of solar-powered hair rollers

Alison Steadman

3 december 1995 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Alison Steadman. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her role as the monstrous Beverly in the BBC's production of Abigail's Party 18 years ago, as well as her talent for improvisation which she has perfected with her director husband, Mike Leigh. She'll also be discussing how daunting she found it recently to take on the role of Mrs Bennett in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Tosca E Lucevan Le Stella by Giacomo Puccini
Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Luxury: Hot lemon flannels (as provided in Chinese restaurants)

George Martin

19 november 1995 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a musician who became famous for producing other people's music. George Martin will be talking to Sue Lawley about how he earned money to pay for piano lessons, was helped by a fairy godfather to study at the Guildhall School of Music and went on in 1962 to sign up and produce the group which changed the face of popular music. He'll be discussing his relationship with The Beatles and his extremely productive life since they disbanded 25 years ago. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Bess You Is My Woman Now by George Gershwin
Book: A book on how to build a boat
Luxury: An electric keyboard

Umberto Eco

12 november 1995 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Umberto Eco. His best-selling novel The Name of the Rose propelled him from the relative obscurity of his post as Professor of Semiotics at Bologna University to worldwide fame at the age of 50. Lees meer

He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he deals with the demands of his celebrity status, his childhood in Mussolini's Italy and his other works - Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before.

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

Favourite track: Goldberg Varations No 22 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The New York Phone Book
Luxury: Laptop computer

Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP

5 november 1995 · 39 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, Gillian Shephard. Lees meer

She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the importance of her roots in rural Norfolk. Although she briefly left to go to Oxford, she was born and brought up in Norfolk and worked in local parliament there until her late 40s, when she entered Parliament to represent a Norfolk seat. She'll be discussing her own school days, and how they influence her perception of the quality of schools nowadays.

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

Favourite track: Mass in B Minor: Cum Sancto Spirito by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan H Huizinga
Luxury: Madame Rochas scent

Elizabeth Jane Howard

29 oktober 1995 · 41 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. In 1950, her first novel The Beautiful Visit was published. Now, some 45 years later and after many other books, she has just completed the concluding book of The Cazalet Chronicles. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the problems of combining writing and marriage; she abandoned her three marriages - her first husband, being the naturalist Peter Scott, and her last, the writer Kingsley Amis; and she'll be ruminating on the nature of love and who might experience it. Lees meer

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

Favourite track: Requiem Dies Irae by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: All the sonatas by Scarlatti
Luxury: Piano

Don Black

22 oktober 1995 · 35 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the country's most successful lyricists, Don Black. Lees meer

Songs like Born Free and Diamonds are Forever, and musicals like Sunset Boulevard, Billy and Aspects of Love have made him a rich man. But he'll be talking to Sue Lawley of his early memories of his poor but happy Jewish family in the East End of London and how an apprenticeship on the New Musical Express led him into the world of popular music.

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

Favourite track: Adagio in G Minor for Organ & Strings by Tomaso Albinoni & Remo Giazotto
Book: 14,000 Things To Be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Luxury: Snooker table

Richard Hoggart

15 oktober 1995 · 37 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the academic and author Richard Hoggart. Nearly 40 years ago, he wrote the hugely influential Uses of Literacy. In it, he argued that the working classes were being short changed - both by rampant consumerism and by the dross he felt was being churned out by the mass media. Lees meer

Cast well away from materialism and the media on the desert island, he'll be talking about how he now feels about his original thesis and about his own working-class background in Leeds, where he was orphaned at an early age.

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

Favourite track: Fidelio: The Prisoner's Chorus From Act One by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Luxury: Fountain pen and paper

Alan Yentob

8 oktober 1995 · 36 min

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his upbringing in Manchester and London, the Cathedral boarding school where he and his twin brother were the only two Jewish boys and his 27 years at the BBC. Lees meer

During that time he rose steadily through the ranks to become Head of Music and Arts, ending up as the only person to have run both BBC1 and BBC2.

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

Favourite track: Four Last Songs from Beim Schlafengehen by Richard Strauss
Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Luxury: Video recorder