Desert Island Discs

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2.000 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud

1. Peter Scudamore

   29 mei 1994 · 34 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the jockey Peter Scudamore. The son of a jockey who had won the Grand National and the Cheltenham Gold Cup - Scu, as he is known throughout the racing fraternity - resisted all attempts to turn him into an estate agent, and followed in his father's footsteps. Having broken nearly every bone in his body, he retired in 1993 after a career which encompassed 1,678 National Hunt victories and the title of Champion Jockey a record eight times. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about jockeys, jumping and his new career, journalism. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Laid by James
   Book: Book of Verse by Rudyard Kipling
   Luxury: Snorkeling equipment

2. Britt Ekland

   22 mei 1994 · 35 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Britt Ekland. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her miraculous transformation from an overweight, buck-toothed ugly duckling with large ears to a beautiful peroxided teenager. She'll also be describing her turbulent marriage to Peter Sellers and her passionate affair with the rock star Rod Stewart. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Mother by John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band
   Book: Recent editions of magazines, e.g. Vanity Fair; Vogue
   Luxury: Case of Evian water filled with champagne

3. Kate Adie

   15 mei 1994 · 38 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the BBC's Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the pleasures and perils of a job which has taken her to some of the world's most dangerous trouble spots. She'll also be describing how she felt when she was recently reunited with her natural mother after having been happily brought up by her adoptive family in Sunderland. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Symphony No 6 In E Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams
   Book: Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
   Luxury: Large Victorian bath with claw feet

4. Sir John Wilson

   8 mei 1994 · 38 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a man who has devoted his life to helping those who share his own disability - blindness. Sir John Wilson lost his sight at the age of 12 in an accident in his school chemistry laboratory. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, undaunted, he went on to win a scholarship to Oxford, and then, at the age of 30, mortgaged his home and set up the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. Since then, he has travelled an average of 50,000 miles a year, helping to restore or save the sight of millions of people the world over. Last year he was awarded the Albert Schweizer International Award for Medicine. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Mass in B Minor: The Sanctus by Johann Sebastian Bach
   Book: A chess strategy book (in braille)
   Luxury: A sonic probe

5. Garrison Keillor

   1 mei 1994 · 38 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the American writer and broadcaster Garrison Keillor. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his childhood in the small town of Anoka in Minnesota, on which his stories in his bestseller, Lake Wobegon Days, were based. One of six children of Protestant fundamentalist parents, he'll be remembering his home life where story-telling was an intrinsic element, and in which alcohol, television, parties and socialising were all forbidden. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Abide With Me Fast Falls The Evertide by Huddersfield Choral Society
   Book: Thesaurus by Roget
   Luxury: Set of china (four place settings)

6. Trevor McDonald

   24 april 1994 · 36 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week has recently topped the polls as the country's most popular newscaster. He is ITN's Trevor McDonald, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about a West Indian childhood which was dominated by English influences, a career which started in Caribbean local radio and television and how he copes with his emotions when having to report on particularly gruelling news stories. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Opus 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven
   Book: Anthology of Poetry
   Luxury: Box of paints, brushes, paper

7. Alan Hacker

   17 april 1994 · 38 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a musician who started his professional career as a clarinettist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Lees meer

   However, when he was 26, Alan Hacker was permanently disabled by a thrombosis on his spinal column. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, since then, although confined to a wheelchair, he has been determined to prove his disability is not a handicap but just a nuisance. He'll be describing how he has carved out a niche for himself as a conductor, teacher and pioneer in the study of early music and is now a leading guest conductor of the Stuttgart Opera.

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

   Favourite track: London Symphony by Franz Joseph Haydn
   Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
   Luxury: Hovercraft wheelchair with capuccino machine

8. Roger McGough

   10 april 1994 · 36 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the poet Roger McGough. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in Liverpool where he showed little aptitude for literature - it wasn't until he went to Hull University that he discovered his true vocation. It was one that was to take him, via a best-selling number one record, Lily the Pink, with the group The Scaffold, to become one of the country's most enduringly successful poets. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Foghorns On The Mersey
   Book: Times Atlas of the Night Sky
   Luxury: Black cab

9. Sir Ranulph Fiennes

   3 april 1994 · 36 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Over the last 23 years, he has navigated the White Nile in a hovercraft, travelled around the world through both poles, discovered a lost city and, most recently, he nearly perished in Antarctica. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his unhappy schooldays at Eton, his thwarted ambition to emulate his father's military career and the problems he has had with his companions on expeditions. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Love Changes Everything by Michael Ball
   Book: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
   Luxury: Antisan for insect bites

10. Conrad Black

    27 maart 1994 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week owns the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator - amongst two or three hundred other newspapers and magazines the world over. He is Canadian-born tycoon Conrad Black, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the notorious misbehaviour of his school days, the tuition his father gave him in the ways of corporate finance and how he views his powerful position in the British establishment. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Emperor Concerto in E Flat Major Opus 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Oxford Book of Verse, especially 'Apologia' (Newman)
    Luxury: Model of HMS Hood

11. Christina Dodwell

    6 maart 1994 · 34 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs is the explorer Christina Dodwell. Born in West Africa, she spent her early years running wild in the Bush. When her family returned to Camberley and the restriction of English boarding schools, Christina reacted by being expelled from a large number of them. She later ran away from the restrictions of London life in search of adventure on the African subcontinent, and she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her subsequent travels, the exhilaration of the lone voyager, the joy and the fear. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: One Of These Days by Pink Floyd
    Book: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
    Luxury: Pen and paper

12. Frances Partridge

    27 februari 1994 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is as old as this century and is said to be the last survivor of the much written-about Bloomsbury set. She is Frances Partridge and she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her colourful life, unconventional beliefs and friendships with such influential writers and philosophers of her time as Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, EM Forster, Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat For Volin & Viola by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Memoirs by Duc de Saint-Simon
    Luxury: Flower press

13. Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP

    20 februari 1994 · 39 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his reputation as something of a bruiser, his childhood as the son of a Northamptonshire miner and about his aspirations to the top job in politics - a job which would crown a career which has encompassed six senior Cabinet posts in under 10 years. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Night In Tunisia by Charlie Parker
    Book: The Life of Lord Melbourne by Lord David Cecil
    Luxury: Tenor sax

14. Rosemary Verey

    13 februari 1994 · 35 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the gardener Rosemary Verey. Passionate about planting and growing flowers and herbs as a child in the 1930s, it wasn't until the 1950s, with her four children away at school, that she began a serious study of horticulture. Completely self-taught, she has gone on to develop a career designing some of Britain's most beautiful gardens and numbers Prince Charles and Elton John amongst her clients. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Papillons by Robert Schumann
    Book: A Celebration of Gardens by Sir Roy Strong
    Luxury: Waterproof pens, paper and folders

15. Douglas Adams

    6 februari 1994 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Douglas Adams, creator of the anarchic world conjured up by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how, as a child, he found it difficult to communicate with the adult world, and didn't speak until he was four years old. But as his confidence grew, he set his sights on being a nuclear physicist - an ambition later replaced by a burning desire to be John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus. In fact, he has become a hugely-successful author, a passionate amateur naturalist and a rock star manque. Lees meer

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

    Book: Omnibus of Golfing Stories by P G Wodehouse
    Luxury: Martin D28 left-handed guitar

16. Dame Cicely Saunders

    30 januari 1994 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the founder of the Hospice Movement Dame Cicely Saunders. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her schooldays at Roedean, how she trained as a nurse and much later, as a doctor. When she was 29 she fell in love with a young patient dying of cancer, who bequeathed her a legacy of £500. Starting with that bequest, she raised enough money for a new kind of hospice dedicated to care for the dying. There are now 190 similar hospices throughout the country. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 7 in A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
    Luxury: Pen and paper

17. Willy Russell

    23 januari 1994 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the playwright Willy Russell. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the route his career has taken - from hairdressing, via teaching in Toxteth to a living as one of the country's most successful dramatists. He'll also be talking about his play about the Beatles, John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bert, which, 20 years ago, transferred to the West End and became a huge hit and how, since then, Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers have all brought him success and acclaim. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: I Get Along Without You Very Well by Hoagy Carmichael
    Book: A Latin Primer
    Luxury: English meadow with an oak tree

18. Sir Harrison Birtwistle

    16 januari 1994 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the internationally-acclaimed composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his childhood in Lancashire, the solitude he craves when he writes his music and how he copes with the difficulties audiences encounter with some of his compositions. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Sherry by Frankie Valli
    Book: A Latin Primer
    Luxury: Chainsaw

19. Ian Hislop

    9 januari 1994 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Ian Hislop. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the seven turbulent years of his editorship of Private Eye, as well as his early attempts at stand-up comedy before he became somewhat more successful at sit-down comedy as team captain of BBC TV's Have I Got News For You? Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro Se Vuol Ballare, Signor Contino by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Civilisation by Kenneth Clarke
    Luxury: Frosties

20. Oliver Sacks

    2 januari 1994 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Dr Oliver Sacks. Now a distinguished Professor of Neurology, he was immortalised by Robin Williams in the film Awakenings. Inspired by Dr Sacks' book of the same name, it tells the story of the summer of 1969, when the catatonic patients he was treating at the time responded to an apparent miracle drug and came alive. He'll be talking about the excitements and disappointments of that summer and also about some of the 100s of extraordinary case histories which have formed the basis of his many other books. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Chu Chin Chow Here Be Oysters by Martin Lawrence
    Book: Dictionary of Musical Themes
    Luxury: Scuba diving kit

21. Lord Ashley

    26 december 1993 · 37 min

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    Twenty-six years ago, the then Labour MP Jack Ashley entered a world of silence - a minor operation on his ears went disastrously wrong and he lost his hearing completely. But, thanks to a complex operation, Jack Ashley, now Lord Ashley, can hear the voices of his grandchildren for the first time. Lees meer

    In Desert Island Discs this week he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the struggles of his early poverty-stricken years, the misery of losing his hearing, and the dogged determination which has earned him the reputation as one of Britain's best-known and best-loved campaigners for the disabled and disadvantaged.

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

    Favourite track: Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel
    Book: A Book About Warfare
    Luxury: Smoked salmon and wine

22. Phil Collins

    19 december 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the rock star Phil Collins. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his rise to fame as the lead singer of the group Genesis and his subsequent transition to a dazzling solo career. As someone who has sold over 35 million records worldwide, his success has brought him riches, and, apparently, happiness. He'll be discussing how the Mr Nice Guy of the rock world manages money, marriage and making music. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Helpless Heart by Paul Brady
    Book: Prehistory of the Far Side by Gary Larson
    Luxury: Piano

23. Taki

    28 november 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is proud to describe himself as a playboy - he is Taki Theodoracopulos - the millionaire journalist who pens the Spectator's High Life column every week. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in Greece, where his father was a self-made shipping magnate, his subsequent life of tennis and nightclubs with the international jet-set and the abrupt end to this existence when he spent two months in Pentonville Prison after being found in possession of cocaine at Heathrow Airport. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Lilli Marlene by German Soldiers
    Book: Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
    Luxury: Boxing punchbag

24. Doris Lessing

    21 november 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week has been described by some critics as Britain's greatest living writer. Doris Lessing will be talking to Sue Lawley about her early life in Southern Rhodesia, from where she was eventually exiled because of what the authorities called her 'subversive activities'. Lees meer

    She'll also be describing the bleak London where she arrived in 1950, clutching her small son, with 40 pounds in her pocket and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing.

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

    Favourite track: Tea For Two by Louis Armstrong & The All Stars
    Book: A Thousand and One Nights
    Luxury: Magic carpet

25. Shirley Anne Field

    14 november 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Shirley-Anne Field. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her Dickensian upbringing in different children's homes in the North of England and her extraordinary success as an actress in the 1960s, when she starred in The Entertainer and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. She'll also be reminiscing about her friendship with John F Kennedy and an ill-fated date with Frank Sinatra. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto 1 in C by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Reader's Digest
    Luxury: Large Chippendale mirror

26. Sybil Marshall

    7 november 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week has just produced her first novel in her 80th year. Sybil Marshall will be talking to Sue Lawley about this achievement, about her life in her beloved Fenlands of East Anglia, and about the village school she ran which revolutionised primary-school teaching methods. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Exsultate Jubilate Hallelujah Chorus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    Luxury: Inexhaustible supply of laundered Swiss lawn handkerchiefs

27. Judge Stephen Tumin

    31 oktober 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, Judge Stephen Tumim. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about many of the controversial issues surrounding the prison service today, as well as about his own private passions for books and painting. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry
    Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    Luxury: Marble bust of Laurence Sterne

28. Kenny Everett

    24 oktober 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the disc jockey Kenny Everett. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his Merseyside childhood, his discovery of classical music and his dependence on radio, all of which led him to an anarchic and erratic career on television and radio. He'll also be discussing his unorthodox life which has encompassed a suicide attempt, drugs and the break-up of his 12-year marriage after he came out as a homosexual. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphonic Prelude by Giacomo Puccini
    Book: Eagle annual
    Luxury: Bathroom suite

29. Raymond Seitz

    17 oktober 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the present American Ambassador in London, Raymond Seitz. The first career diplomat ever to be appointed to the job, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he also scored a first by surviving the transition from President Bush to President Clinton earlier this year. He'll also be discussing the role of the American Ambassador in a shifting political climate and describing life in the Ambassador's residence, Winfield House in Regent's Park. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In A Major K581 Second Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Oxford Anthology of Modern Poetry
    Luxury: Big box full of family albums

30. Lesley Garrett

    10 oktober 1993 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the opera singer Lesley Garrett. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her musical Yorkshire family - both her grandfathers were musical entertainers - and how she learnt to read music before she could read books. Having won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, she moved straight into performing and was snapped up by the English National Opera. She'll be discussing her favourite roles and her passionate belief that opera should lose its elitist image. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Broadway Babe
    Book: Photograph album
    Luxury: Tightrope

31. Rt Hon Virginia Bottomley MP

    3 oktober 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Secretary of State for Health, Virginia Bottomley. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the stresses and strains of her job, her public image as a do-gooder and her large extended family with its annual holidays on the Isle of Wight. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Exsultate Jubilate by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Norton's Star Atlas
    Luxury: Radio 4's Today programme

32. Lord Palumbo

    26 september 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Chairman of the Arts Council Lord Palumbo. Property developer and long-time patron of the arts, he will be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for collecting, which extends from motor cars to houses built by famous 20th century architects, of which he owns four. He will also be discussing his 30-year mission to redevelop the Mansion House site in the City of London. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 7 by Jean Sibelius
    Book: On The Road by Jack Kerouac
    Luxury: Telescope

33. Paul Merton

    19 september 1993 · 35 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Paul Merton. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his enduring but secret ambition to be a comedian and the feeling he's had throughout his life that he would always make it somehow. He'll be describing his painful beginnings at London's Comedy Store, and his graduation from there to radio and television, where he now has his own series on Channel 4, as well as appearing on Radio Four's Just A Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and being part of the regular team of BBC2's Have I Got News For You? Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Spreading by Kronos Quartet
    Book: Buster Keaton Biography by Rudi Blesh
    Luxury: Bed

34. Isabel Allende

    12 september 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist Isabel Allende. One of the most widely-read Latin American writers, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her native Chile, from where she is now voluntarily exiled, and about her childhood home where she lived with her clairvoyant grandmother and on which she based her first book The House of the Spirits. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Carmina Burana Ecce Gratum by Carl Orff
    Book: All correspondence between her and her mother
    Luxury: Paper and pencils

35. Nicholas Hytner

    11 juli 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the theatre director Nicholas Hytner. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his string of directorial successes, which include Miss Saigon, Wind in the Willows, Carousel and The Importance of Being Ernest. He'll also be discussing the health of the modern musical today and the problems of directing both drama and opera. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Don Giovanni Ah Taci, Ingiusto Core by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The collected works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Luxury: Large supply of total block suncream

36. Peter Mayle

    4 juli 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Peter Mayle. Renowned for his best-selling books about life as an Englishman in France, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his years in advertising, and how he coined the catchphrase Nice one, Cyril', and also about the recent television adaptation of a Year in Provence, which attracted widespread criticism. Criticism and controversy have been a feature of his life since the massive success of his books and he'll be answering many of the charges levelled against him, amongst them the allegation that he has made fun of the French, presenting them as laughable stereotypes as well as attracting hordes of sightseers to disturb the peace of Provence. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Caruso by Luciano Pavarotti
    Book: The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
    Luxury: The menu from his favourite Parisien restaurant

37. Sir Leon Brittan

    27 juni 1993 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Sir Leon Brittan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about life as one of Britain's European Commissioners in Brussels, where he has been for the last five and a half years, since his resignation over the Westland affair. He'll also be looking back on his glittering early career - winning an Exhibition to Cambridge at 16, a double first in English and Law, and becoming, at 41, the youngest member of the Cabinet. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Sonnet No 116 by William Shakespeare
    Book: The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer
    Luxury: Collection of large-scale Ordnance Survey maps of England

38. Joan Baez

    20 juni 1993 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is musician and campaigner Joan Baez. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Salut! Demeure Chaste Et Pure by Charles Gounod
    Book: Diary by Anne Frank
    Luxury: Personal pouch with a silver lion in it

39. Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP

    13 juni 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her Yorkshire childhood, her venture south to join a dance troupe, and her much-vaunted but nevertheless fleeting appearance as a Tiller Girl. She'll also be discussing how she made history last year when she became the first woman to be elected Speaker, and also the first to be elected from the opposition benches since 1835. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Rock-A-Bye by Judy Garland
    Book: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
    Luxury: Mace of the House of Commons

40. Frank Bruno

    6 juni 1993 · 34 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the boxer Frank Bruno. Lees meer

    He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he got into trouble as a young boy for fighting with his contemporaries and ultimately with one of his sports teachers, after which he was sent to a special school where boxing was to become his salvation. He'll also be discussing the vicious nature of the sport and the rigorous training programme he undergoes before every fight.

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

    Favourite track: When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going by Billy Ocean
    Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
    Luxury: Picture of the family

41. Kaye Webb

    30 mei 1993 · 37 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a publisher. Lees meer

    Kaye Webb was made editor of Puffin Books in the 1960s, and held the job for nearly 20 years. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about those years and also about the crowded professional life which preceded them. As an assistant editor for the pocket magazine Lilliput in the 1930s, she commissioned contributions from distinguished authors such as Evelyn Waugh, George Bernard Shaw and Dylan Thomas.

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

    Favourite track: Sea Pictures - Where Corals Lie by Edward Elgar
    Book: Messages - poetry by Naomi Lewis
    Luxury: Very big photograph album on a wheeling table

42. Lord Weinstock

    23 mei 1993 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a businessman. Lees meer

    Born into a family of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was orphaned at the age of nine and brought up by his older brothers. He studied at the London School of Economics and married the daughter of a manufacturer - the owner of a small electrical company. By the age of 34, he was its Managing Director. Today that company is a huge institution - GEC - which its Managing Director Lord Weinstock has steered safely through the choppy waters of nine changes of government and six Prime Ministers. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work and about his passionate love of music.

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

    Favourite track: Requiem - Recordare by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: If This Be A Man by Primo Levi
    Luxury: Photograph album - family, friends, colleagues

43. Eva Burrows

    16 mei 1993 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is General of the Salvation Army Eva Burrows. Lees meer

    Favourite track: St Matthew Passion Konnen Tranen Meiner Wangen by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Faber Book of Religious Verse
    Luxury: Game of Scrabble with paper and pencil

44. John Cole

    9 mei 1993 · 38 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster John Cole. Lees meer

    Favourite track: The Ode To Joy (Symphony No 9) by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Typewriter

45. John Boorman

    2 mei 1993 · 37 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is film director John Boorman. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Symphony No 7 Second Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Karl Jung
    Luxury: Telescope

46. Baroness Blackstone

    25 april 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Baroness Blackstone. Lees meer

    She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her political radicalisation at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, the difficulties of working motherhood and the different demands of her varied professional life encompassing the academic, political and public worlds.

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

    Favourite track: Cosi fan Tutte Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
    Luxury: Tennis wall, balls and racket

47. Anton Edelmann

    18 april 1993 · 36 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is chef Anton Edelmann. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Rinpoche
    Luxury: Wok

48. Lord Oaksey

    11 april 1993 · 36 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the jockey and racing journalist Lord Oaksey. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he decided to give up a career in the law to become a junior racing correspondent on the Daily Telegraph and about his time as an amateur jockey when he rode 200 winners and nearly won the Grand National in 1963. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry
    Book: Mr Mulliner's Memoirs by P G Wodehouse
    Luxury: Cargo of champagne

49. Richard Gregory

    4 april 1993 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Professor Richard Gregory. He is a scientist who comes from a long line of academics - his father was an astronomer who recruited him at an early age to help build a homemade aeroplane, the 'flying flea', but luckily the project was abandoned before its fatal design fault was discovered. Professor Gregory has gone on since then to invent robots, hearing aids, special telescopes for astronauts, and to set up his famous foundation - the Exploratory in Bristol - which is visited by thousands of people every year. Lees meer

    He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for investigation and invention and about his mission to lift the fog of ignorance which surrounds so many people when it comes to scientific matters.

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

    Favourite track: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Opus 109 by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: An astronomy book by Patrick Moore
    Luxury: Astronomical telescope

50. David Croft

    14 maart 1993 · 34 min

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    Sue Lawley's castaway is writer David Croft. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Not While I'm Around by Cleo Laine
    Book: Collected Poems by Sir John Betjeman
    Luxury: Piano