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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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Roy Plomley

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Desert Island Discs: Lord Elwyn-Jones

11/02/1984

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Lord Elwyn-Jones

Roy Plomley's castaway is politician and lawyer Lord Elwyn-Jones

Roy Plomley's castaway is politician and lawyer Lord Elwyn-Jones.

Lord Elwyn-Jones began his career as a barrister, combining it with that of a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945. He was Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and later he was appointed Lord Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords.

In conversation with Roy Plomley about his eventful life, he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

[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: English Social History by G M Trevelyan
Luxury: Comic collage by Pearl Binder

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