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Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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Kirsty Young

Mary Portas

Desert Island Discs: Mary Portas

10/01/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Mary Portas

Kirsty Young's castaway is the retail expert Mary Portas.

Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Portas. 

She's made an art-form out of turning heads, and her galleries have been the enormous plate-glass windows of Harrods, Topshop and Harvey Nichols. 

These days she brings retail therapy to small traders, helping them to hold their own against the high street's big names.

Record: Casta Diva from Norma    
Book: The works of Rumi, Persian poet and philosopher
Luxury: 'A set of different fragrances from the people I love'.

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