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Desert Island Discs

Jonathon Porritt

Duration: 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Director of Friends of the Earth Jonathon Porritt. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passionate commitment to the preservation of the planet, and also confessing that, even though he is seen by many as the guru of self-sufficiency and all things green, he would be totally at a loss when it came to surviving island life.

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

Favourite track: Humpback Whale Music by Humpback Whales
Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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