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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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Martin Sheen

Desert Island Discs: Martin Sheen

03/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Martin Sheen

Actor Martin Sheen joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Actor Martin Sheen, star of TV drama The West Wing and the film Apocalypse Now, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen.

In recent years he has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely successful political drama The West Wing. He's made more than a 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his children - Emilio Estevez.

But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he says by faith and conscience above politics.

Record: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.
Luxury: A full set of golf clubs and a bag of golf balls.

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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