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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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Desert Island Discs: Michael Mansfield

17/10/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Michael Mansfield

Barrister Michael Mansfield joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield.

He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the high profile cases he's been involved in.

He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in which a difference can be made." 

Record: The Goons - What's the Time, Eccles? 
Book: The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine as his Bible: and 
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Luxury: A drum kit.

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