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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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Cath Kidston

Desert Island Discs: Cath Kidston

24/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Cath Kidston

Designer Cath Kidston joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. 

Cheerful and practical, her products nod towards the 1950s. She began with ironing board covers but these days you can listen to a radio decorated with one of her designs, pitch one of her tents or decorate the children's bedroom with her cowboy wallpaper. 

In her own room as a child she used to play at keeping shop. These days her business has a turnover of more than £50 million. "I really felt, from very, very early on, I was onto something with the notion of what I was doing," she says. "I remember feeling I'd really overstepped the mark when I opened my second shop - thinking, that's probably going a stage too far." 

Record: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life 
Book: The Larousse French/English dictionary 
Luxury: A hot water bottle 

Producer: Isabel Sargent.

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