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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: Felicity Green

17/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Felicity Green

Fashion journalist Felicity Green joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.

Pioneering fashion journalist Felicity Green joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the pioneering fashion journalist Felicity Green. 

As hem-lines headed north in the early 60s she was hitting her stride in Fleet Street. She was the first woman on the board of a national paper and, as society changed, she kept right up with it. She introduced readers to Mary Quant, Biba and Twiggy and, on one memorable occasion, gave Harold Wilson's wife Mary a home perm. 

Now in her mid-80s she is still mentoring students at St Martin's College and says "I have never been fashionable - fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance. My blue-print for fashion is to be simple and stylish."

Record: Chan Chan 
Book: Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim 
Luxury: A bronze sculpture by Giles Penny 

Producer: Rachel Simpson.

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