Desert Island Discs

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2.000 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud

1. Ernie Wise

   21 oktober 1990 · 35 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is comedian Ernie Wise. Since Eric Morecambe's death six years ago, Ernie has had to carve out a show business career on his own, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about life as Wise without Morecambe, as well as looking back on the highs and lows of a partnership of nearly fifty years, during which time Morecambe and Wise sang, danced and joked their way to the top of the tree. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Bring Me Sunshine by Morecombe And Wise
   Book: Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
   Luxury: Yellow Rolls Royce

2. Clive Jenkins

   14 oktober 1990 · 24 min

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   The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the most colourful and controversial members of Britain's trade union movement. He is the former General-Secretary of The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs - Clive Jenkins. Now retired, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about a career which has encompassed disappointment but also considerable triumph, as well as looking back on his Methodist working-class upbringing in South Wales, and the path he trod from there to a position where he wielded extensive power and influence in the tough world of industrial relations. Lees meer

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

   Book: Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
   Luxury: Video player and tape of Citizen Kane

3. John Thaw

   7 oktober 1990 · 37 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is an actor who rose to fame by portraying two rather different sorts of policemen on the nation's television screens. John Thaw, though a versatile stage actor, having appeared at the Royal Court and played with the Royal Shakespeare Company, is best known for the roles of Jack Reegan in the Sweeney, and, more recently, the morose but music-loving Inspector Morse. A passionate lover of classical music himself, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early childhood in Lancashire, his marriage to actress Sheila Hancock and his aversion to the perils of stardom. Lees meer

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

   Record: Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott (St Matthew Passion)
   Book: The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
   Luxury: Large comfortable armchair

4. Gary Lineker

   30 september 1990 · 34 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the captain of the England football team Gary Lineker. Apprenticed to Leicester City at the age of 16, he turned professional at 18, then went on to play for England. In 1985 he was bought by Everton for £800,000. One year and 40 goals later, he was bought by Barcelona for more than two million pounds. Lees meer

   He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his extraordinary skill as a footballer, his reputation for immaculate behaviour both on and off the football field and the agony of England's defeat in this year's World Cup.

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

   Favourite track: Soul Limbo (Sig. Tune For Test Match Special) by Booker T And The MGs
   Book: Wisden Almanack for cricketers
   Luxury: Bowling machine

5. Barbara Windsor

   23 september 1990 · 35 min

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   This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the effervescent actress Barbara Windsor. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early life in London's East End, the Carry On films for which she is, of course, best known, and the strain of a tumultuous private life often hidden behind the public facade of an irrepressibly good-humoured cockney sparrow. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Extract from The Secret Life Of Anthony Hancock by Galton & Simpson
   Book: A book about Hollywood
   Luxury: Writing materials and a Union flag

6. Dr Ruth Westheimer

   16 september 1990 · 36 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer. Lees meer

   Born in Germany in the late 1920s, her Jewish family sent her out of the country as the Nazis rose to power. Sent to the safe but lonely confines of a Swiss orphanage, she was never to see her family again. Then, after living in Israel and studying in Paris, she eventually took American citizenship. Then, 10 years ago, she emerged from obscurity to become a national celebrity. As an unemployed college lecturer in her early 50s, her appearances on radio and television, where she handed out explicit but common-sense advice on sex and its problems, brought her fame and fortune. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early life, her adventures in Paris and Israel and the satisfactions of her present job.

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

   Favourite track: There Was A Time by Joel Westheimer
   Book: Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
   Luxury: Large box of marrons glacés

7. Lord Charteris

   9 september 1990 · 37 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a pillar of the British Establishment, Lord Charteris of Amisfield. Lees meer

   Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became, at the age of 36, Private Secretary to the young Princess Elizabeth, whom he was to serve for nearly 30 years, retiring only after when, as Queen Elizabeth the Second, she celebrated her Silver Jubilee. After leaving the royal household, he went back to Eton, where he has been Provost for the last 12 years. Among many things, Lord Charteris will be talking to Sue Lawley about the job of Private Secretary to the Queen, and how the Eton of today differs from the Eton he attended as a schoolboy some 50 years ago.

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

   Favourite track: Emperor Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
   Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
   Luxury: Set of wood-carving tools

8. Robin Knox-Johnston

   2 september 1990 · 39 min

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   The Desert Island Discs guest this week is someone who should be particularly suited to castaway life - Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail single-handedly non-stop around the world. Since then, he has spent much of his time at sea visiting many islands, deserted or otherwise, and recently he undertook a voyage using only those navigational instruments available to sailors 500 years ago. Very much the adventurous master mariner, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the perils and pleasures of life at sea. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Land Of Hope And Glory by Edward Elgar/Benson
   Book: Books identifying birds and fish
   Luxury: Video recorder and tapes of Queen Mother's parade

9. Jean Rook

   15 juli 1990 · 37 min

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   The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs claims to be the highest-paid woman journalist in Britain - one of a disappearing species. The star columnist Jean Rook has shared her life for eighteen years with the millions of readers of her national newspaper column. And it's been life that has embraced tragedy as well as triumph - over the last three years she has written in her column about her experiences of breast cancer and widowhood. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the ups and downs of her life and career. Lees meer

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

   Favourite track: Eton Boating Song by Eton College
   Book: Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
   Luxury: Computer

10. Peter Jonas

    8 juli 1990 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the English National Opera Peter Jonas. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his teenage ambition to run a great opera house, his subsequent rejection from the London Coliseum when he applied to sweep the stage there, and his return as its director some 11 years later. He'll also be talking about his fight against Hodgkin's Disease, his eleven years as personal and administrative assistant to Sir Georg Solti in Chicago and his plans for the future of the English National Opera. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Die Meistersinger Act 1 Prelude by Richard Wagner
    Book: City of God by Saint Augustine
    Luxury: Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle, in a fridge

11. Kaffe Fassett

    1 juli 1990 · 39 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the man who can be credited with having made knitting glamorous. Designer and knitter Kaffe Fassett will be talking to Sue Lawley about the inspiration for his extraordinary bold and simple designs which have brought him fame and fortune the world over, and also waxing lyrical over the colours and patterns he uses, which reflect Byzantine carpets, Roman glass or just simple fruit, vegetables and shells. He'll also be talking about his bohemian childhood in California and the route which turned him into an Anglophile and led him to an exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Vespers by Claudio Monteverdi
    Book: Reflections by Hermann Hesse
    Luxury: Diary and pen

12. George Carman QC

    24 juni 1990 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the country's most expensive and sought-after barristers - George Carman QC. A virtuoso of the courtroom, he has made his name successfully defending the famous - from former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe to well-known show business names like Peter Adamson, Maria Aitken and Ken Dodd. He will be talking to Sue Lawley about his perception of the key to successful advocacy and making a definitive judgement on the eight records he would take to his desert island. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave
    Luxury: Painting Of Grand Canal In Venice"

13. Harold Fielding

    17 juni 1990 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is theatrical impresario Harold Fielding. The name behind a dazzling array of hit musicals like Half A Sixpence, Charlie Girl, Sweet Charity and Barnum, his failures have been nearly as spectacular as his successes - his production of Ziegfeld crashed two years ago, making a loss of more than two million pounds, and this year his new musical with Petula Clark had to close early. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the highs and lows of show business life and about the stars he has looked after, such as Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rogers, to name but a few. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor - Opening by Robert Schumann
    Book: Great Murder Trials of 20th Century by Sir David Napley
    Luxury: Large bag of sugar

14. Maeve Binchy

    10 juni 1990 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is novelist Maeve Binchy. During her Catholic childhood in a small Irish village, she nurtured an ambition, not just to lead a life of religious devotion, but to become a saint. Later on, she aspired to the legal profession, where her horizons stretched far beyond barristers and briefs to, at the very least, Chief Justice of Ireland. But it was ultimately as a writer that Maeve Binchy achieved enormous success, with novels like Light a Penny Candle and many others making her name as one of the most successful popular authors of her time. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood in Ireland, the loss of her religious faith and her ultimate success as an author of popular fiction. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: The Brendan Theme by Liam O'Flynn
    Book: Teach Yourself Bridge
    Luxury: Photograph album

15. Ken Dodd

    3 juni 1990 · 33 min

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    Tickling sticks, diddy men, Knotty Ash - all these can mean but one thing: that this week's Desert Island Discs castaway is comedian Ken Dodd. Though his professional debut took place some 36 years ago, Mr Dodd still proclaims himself a mere spring chicken of 35 or, at a pinch, 36. As befits most jesters, he has had his share of troubles along with the laughter. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his library of books on humour, the loyalty of his audience through good and bad times and his early years in Knotty Ash, where he still lives in his childhood home. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: For The Good Times by Perry Como
    Book: Times Atlas of the World
    Luxury: A box of scented soap

16. Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

    27 mei 1990 · 36 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a politician. Elected to Sheffield City Council at the age of 22, he went on to become its leader for seven years, after which he made the smooth and successful transition to Parliament, where he now sits on the opposition front bench as local government spokesman. Beside him sits his guide dog Offa, because David Blunkett has been blind since birth. Lees meer

    He will be talking to Sue Lawley about his struggles to get his 'O' and 'A' Levels and eventually his degree, his time in local and now national politics and the many problems he has overcome to reach his present position.

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

    Book: Anthology of Verse by Robert Graves
    Luxury: Radio/cassette machine

17. Jonathan Pryce

    20 mei 1990 · 36 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is actor Jonathan Pryce. Since the early 1970s, he has taken on many guises and received many plaudits. He was called the new Brando when he appeared on Broadway, and his Shakespearian roles - Hamlet and Macbeth - elicited comparisons with the late Lord Olivier. Most recently, he has diversified from classical roles, feature films and television plays to take a new path with an all-singing, award-winning performance in the West End's biggest hit of the year - Miss Saigon. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his accidental entry into the acting world and the pitfalls and pleasures of his profession. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Cello Quintet In C by Franz Schubert
    Book: Short Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
    Luxury: Endless supply of rum punch

18. Molly Keane

    13 mei 1990 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the most highly acclaimed writers of today. The author of Good Behaviour, Time After Time and Loving and Giving, she began writing in the early 20s using the pseudonym MJ Farrell to conceal her identity from her sporting friends in Ireland, where she was born and grew up. It was a world of snobbery and decaying aristocracy which she portrays in her books with excruciating accuracy.
    Then, after a period in the early 50s as a successful playwright, she fell silent, to emerge 25 years later under her real name, Molly Keane, and went on to achieve huge success and literary recognition. Now 86, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood, her books and her Ireland. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Greensleeves by James Galway
    Book: A bound copy of the Spectator magazines
    Luxury: A bed, netted from snakes and flies

19. Prue Leith

    6 mei 1990 · 35 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Prue Leith, professional cook, restaurateur and, most recently, mass caterer, with a brasserie in Hyde Park and cream teas in Hampton Court. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood in South Africa, her family's lack of interest in food, her own conversion to the delights of cooking good food and her early days running a catering company from a bedsit in Earl's Court. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral) by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Barchester Novels by Anthony Trollope
    Luxury: Jeroboam of champagne

20. June Whitfield

    29 april 1990 · 34 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the most familiar and best-loved figures of British comedy over the last 40 years - June Whitfield. Whether as Eth, with her boyfriend Ron, in the Glums in the 1950s, or June, with Terry Scott, in Terry and June, her consummate professionalism has brought laughter and fun to millions of people. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early career as well as her most recent one as what has been described as Britain's answer to Jane Fonda, presenting a keep-fit TV programme for the over-60s. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: The Trolley Song by Judy Garland
    Book: A do-it-yourself manual
    Luxury: Supply of cocoa butter and hat

21. Mary Wesley

    22 april 1990 · 39 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is novelist Mary Wesley. Although she has written poetry and prose throughout her life, it was not until she was a widow in her 70s, struggling to make ends meet, that she had her first book, Jumping the Queue, published. That was eight years ago, and since then she has gone on to write six more best-sellers like The Camomile Lawn and Not That Sort of Girl. Mary Wesley will be talking to Sue Lawley about the pleasures and perils of her late arrival to literary fame and choosing eight records to accompany her to her desert island. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 7 - Final Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Luxury: Denis Healey or large double bed with pillows

22. Sir Crispin Tickell

    15 april 1990 · 39 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations. As well as being an ambassador, he is also a passionate meteorologist and conservationist - a cool diplomat who's made himself an expert on global warming. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his many postings, passions and pastimes. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: String Quartet No 1 by Johannes Brahms
    Book: Guide To Science by Asimov
    Luxury: Solar-powered telescope

23. Rt Hon John Biffen MP

    25 maart 1990 · 38 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon John Biffen MP. One of the most popular men at Westminster and a dedicated parliamentarian, he will be talking to Sue Lawley about his early passion for history and politics, his later dismissal from the cabinet by Mrs Thatcher, and also discussing the current debate surrounding the leadership of the Conservative Party. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: The English Character (speech) by Stanley Baldwin
    Book: 1946 Wisden Almanack for cricketers
    Luxury: Rain gauge

24. Richard Rogers

    18 maart 1990 · 39 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's leading and most controversial architects Richard Rogers. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about two of his most celebrated designs - the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyds Building in London - and describing how his passion for the new and the innovative has brought him into disagreement with many critics, including Prince Charles, with whom he shares a passionate concern for the quality of our built environment. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 24 Second Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Odyssey by Homer
    Luxury: His wife, Ruth, but if this is disallowed then a painting

25. Professor Sir George Porter

    11 maart 1990 · 40 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is scientist Professor Sir George Porter. Currently President of the Royal Society, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his route from the local school - a tin shack called the Tin Lizzie, in the mining village in which he was born - to Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 1967, and discussing the parlous state of science and science teaching in the 1990s. Lees meer

    [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: Non-Equilibrium Thermo Dynamics by Prigogine
    Luxury: Computer, paper and pen

26. Sir Ian Trethowan

    4 maart 1990 · 40 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Sir Ian Trethowan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his days as a copy boy earning 27/6d on the Daily Sketch, his early journalistic career, his transition from television presenter to manager of BBC Radio, and some of the dramas and crises which characterised his days as Director-General of the BBC. A lifelong opera lover, he'll also be choosing eight records for his island idyll. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier (Hab Mirs Gelobt) Final Act by Richard Strauss
    Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    Luxury: Champagne

27. John Sessions

    25 februari 1990 · 38 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is, by his own account, very difficult to classify - his talents span comedy, writing, acting and improvisation. He has appeared in the television adaption of Porterhouse Blue and can be heard on Spitting Image as the voice of Norman Tebbitt and Lord Olivier. He has also appeared in the West End as Napoleon, as well as playing nearly forty supporting roles. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his meteoric rise to fame since he abandoned the academic world just eight years ago. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 2 -The End by Gustav Mahler
    Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: A 78rpm record of The Laughing Policeman (to smash on the rocks)

28. John Pilger

    18 februari 1990 · 38 min

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    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the journalist John Pilger. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his arrival in this country from Australia 28 years ago, and how he went on to become one of the best-known and often most contentious foreign correspondents on the Daily Mirror during the 1960s. His reporting of events from all over the world, but most notably Cambodia, has brought him fame and admiration, as well as criticism and controversy for his campaigning style. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about these issues. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Blue Moon Of Kentucky by Elvis Presley
    Book: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
    Luxury: Typewriter

29. Michael Tilson Thomas

    11 februari 1990 · 39 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the American conductor and virtuoso Michael Tilson Thomas. As well as being an internationally recognised musician, his passion for music and his desire to bring his own enthusiasm to as wide an audience as possible have made him something of a television star in America. In this country, he has been principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for nearly two years, and has been called the most exciting American conductor since Leonard Bernstein. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Vespers by Claudio Monteverdi
    Book: Collected Poems by Raine Maria Rilke
    Luxury: Yamaha computerised concert grand piano

30. Sarah Miles

    4 februari 1990 · 38 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the actress Sarah Miles. Discovered at the tender age of 18 by Sir Laurence Olivier, and picked by him to play opposite him in Term of Trial, she went on to entertain and entrance in films like The Servant, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and, perhaps most famously, Ryan's Daughter. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her professional and private life - both of which have been characterised by a fair degree of turmoil and turbulence. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Negro Spiritual by Miles
    Book: I Ching
    Luxury: Word processor

31. Lord Weidenfeld

    28 januari 1990 · 36 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a publisher; a man who came to this country 52 years ago with a 16/6d postal order in his pocket and very poor English. Over half a century later, he is a cultured and successful businessman, renowned for his glittering parties and wide circle of eminent friends, many of whom write books for him. He is Lord Weidenfeld, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his rise from being an impoverished immigrant, to becoming one of Britain's leading intellectual and social figures. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Don Giovanni - The Quintet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: Armchair with coffee machine & rescue signal

32. Sir Robin Day

    21 januari 1990 · 34 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Sir Robin Day. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about going with his father to hear Churchill speak at a political rally when he was a boy, recalling his days at post-war Oxford, the early days at ITN and his long association with politicians in front of the microphone. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: The Drinking Song by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
    Luxury: Magnums of champagne

33. John Peel

    14 januari 1990 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel. For over 20 years the guru of pop fans, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 1960s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for pop music. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Teenage Kicks by The Undertones
    Book: Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
    Luxury: Football

34. Dennis Skinner

    7 januari 1990 · 38 min

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    This week's castaway is Dennis Skinner MP. Recently described as the backbenchers' backbencher, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about Parliament and politics and choosing eight records to accompany him on his solitary island adventure. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Daddy, What Did You Do in the Strike? by Peggy Seeger
    Book: Let's Face the Music by Benny Green
    Luxury: Bike

35. Dirk Bogarde

    31 december 1989 · 39 min

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    In this week's edition of Desert Island Discs the castaway is film actor and writer Dirk Bogarde. Among many other things, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about why life as a national heart-throb has never really suited him, about his many years living in Provence and about the film of which he himself is most proud - Visconti's Death in Venice. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: 5th Symphony 4th Movement by Gustav Mahler
    Book: Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
    Luxury: Distillery

36. HRH The Duchess of Kent

    24 december 1989 · 40 min

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    The castaway in this week's edition of Desert Island Discs is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. After a lifelong devotion to music, she will be whittling down her choice of eight records with great difficulty. Now Patron of the Leeds Piano Competition and the Yehudi Menuhin School, as well as President of the Royal Northern College of Music, the Duchess of Kent studied music herself until she was twenty-five. Her Royal Highness will be talking to Sue Lawley about her love of music, her Yorkshire childhood and her prolific work for charity. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Ave Verum Corpus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: A do-it-yourself manual
    Luxury: Lamp with solar batteries

37. Pauline Collins

    17 december 1989 · 38 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is actress Pauline Collins. As someone who has been entertaining television audiences for over twenty years in popular series like Emergency Ward 10 and Upstairs, Downstairs, she has simultaneously pursued a theatrical career which recently burgeoned into huge success with her portrayal of Shirley Valentine - the trapped Liverpool housewife who finds escape on a Greek island. It's a part which has won her great acclaim both on the stage and in the recent film version. Pauline Collins will be talking to Sue Lawley about the international star status Shirley Valentine has brought her and recalling milestones and memories of her career. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
    Book: Teach yourself physics
    Luxury: Papers, pencils, paints

38. Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson

    3 december 1989 · 40 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood and his memories of university life, as well as his subsequent journalistic and political experiences, including the more recent upheavals in his political career. Lees meer

    [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: The collected works by John Donne
    Luxury: Radio receiver

39. Lady Mosley

    26 november 1989 · 39 min

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    This episode of Desert Island Discs exists for reference, as part of the most complete possible archive resource of programmes from the long-running series, and was broadcast in 1989. The castaway is Diana Mosley, a Mitford girl who married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. During the interview with Sue Lawley, Lady Mosley discusses her contentious continued denial of the Holocaust and admiration for Adolf Hitler, along with her and her husband’s imprisonment during most of the war years and her close friendship with the neighbours who shared her subsequent exile in France, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Lees meer

    [Programme information updated February 2022]

    Favourite track: Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
    Book: Books by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Soft pillow

40. Seamus Heaney

    19 november 1989 · 39 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Seamus Heaney, a Catholic Ulsterman who has been acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats. He was recently elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic rural childhood as the eldest of nine children, his transition to university life and the sources of his poetic inspiration. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Quartet No 13 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
    Luxury: Doc Marten boots

41. Michael Codron

    12 november 1989 · 36 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is theatrical producer Michael Codron. During the 30 years he has been in the business, some of Britain's most eminent modern playwrights - John Mortimer, Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard for example - started their writing careers under his patronage. He's also turned his hand to popular entertainment in the form of hit plays like Crown Matrimonial and There's a Girl in my Soup. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his successes as well as his failures, and the risky but compulsive character of show business life. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 1 in C by Georges Bizet
    Book: Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowman
    Luxury: Jigsaw puzzles

42. Ian Botham

    5 november 1989 · 37 min

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    If you were told that this week's Desert Island Discs castaway took ballet lessons as a child, was a moderately angelic choirboy and now plays golf, badminton and cricket, as well as walking long distances for charity, the name of Ian Botham might well not spring immediately to mind. But it will indeed be Mr Ian Botham who'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his exploits on and off the cricket field, as well as discussing his ambition to captain the England team again. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: I'm Still Standing by Elton John
    Book: Encyclopaedia of species of fish of the world
    Luxury: Fishing rod

43. Colin Thubron

    22 oktober 1989 · 38 min

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    The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron. Author of books on the Middle East, China and Russia, he will be divulging to Sue Lawley some of the delights and dangers of his many experiences, as well as sharing his passion for music. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Love Duet (from Creation) by Franz Joseph Haydn
    Book: A Year of Grace by Victor Gollancz
    Luxury: Scuba-diving equipment

44. Alan Plater

    15 oktober 1989 · 37 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is playwright Alan Plater. He has been writing plays for radio, television, theatre and cinema since the early 1960s, having served his apprenticeship on Z-Cars in the days of live television drama. Since then, he has been associated with major television adaptions like The Barchester Chronicles and Fortunes of War. Lees meer

    He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his work, as well as recalling his childhood in the north of England in the 1930s and 1940s - an idyllic time for him despite the inconveniences of the Depression and the Blitz.

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

    Favourite track: Fine & Mellow by Billie Holiday
    Book: Smell of Sunday Dinner by Sid Chaplin
    Luxury: Writing materials

45. Jack Lemmon

    8 oktober 1989 · 39 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is veteran actor Jack Lemmon. With nearly 50 films to his name, including comedy classics like The Odd Couple and Some Like It Hot, as well as more serious films like Missing and The China Syndrome, he's also an accomplished jazz pianist, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for music and the vital part it has played in his life. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
    Book: A Play in the Fields of our Lord by Peter Matheson
    Luxury: Piano

46. Lucinda Lambton

    1 oktober 1989 · 37 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a woman of many passions - passions for places, people and the past. She is photographer Lucinda Lambton, and she'll be sharing her love of the unusual and the beautiful with Sue Lawley. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Quartet (from Act 2 of Fidelio) by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Dictionary of National Biography
    Luxury: Word processor

47. John Ogdon

    24 september 1989 · 38 min

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    This week's Desert Island Discs will be a form of tribute to the pianist John Ogdon, who died last month. Lees meer

    In the programme, you can hear about his early musical life and his enormous success on the international music scene - a success which was cut short by a devastating nervous breakdown which brought his career to a halt. During his conversation with Sue Lawley, he talked about that illness, his eventual recovery and subsequent return to the concert platform and recording studios.

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

    Favourite track: Symphony No 1 in B Minor 1st Movement by William Walton
    Book: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
    Luxury: Steinway piano

48. Penelope Lively

    17 september 1989 · 39 min

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    The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's leading writers, Penelope Lively. Author of eight novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one which won her the prize in 1987, Moon Tiger, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early childhood in Egypt, her philistine English boarding school and the sources of inspiration for her characters and books. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben (from Zaide) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Luxury: Binoculars

49. Eric Clapton

    10 september 1989 · 37 min

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    The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the legendary figures of the British rock music scene - guitarist Eric Clapton. Once known, blasphemously, as 'God', with prolific graffiti announcing 'Eric Clapton is God', he played with, among others, the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith. Dealing successfully with years of alcohol and drug-related problems, he's still one of rock's superstars, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for music and his life of turmoil. Lees meer

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

    Favourite track: Purple Rain by Prince
    Book: Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: Guitar

50. Dame Vera Lynn

    3 september 1989 · 36 min

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    As part of Radio 4's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs will be Dame Vera Lynn. Lees meer

    She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her own wartime experiences - as the now-legendary 'forces sweetheart' she performed in front of servicemen as far away as Burma, and as close to home as London's Regent's Park, and since then she has been constantly in demand all over the world for her singing and her songs, reviving as they do wartime memories both happy and sad.

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

    Favourite track: Room 504 by Vera Lynn
    Book: A book of edible fruits and vegetables
    Luxury: Watercolour paints, brushes and paper