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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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Arthur Edwards

Desert Island Discs: Arthur Edwards

25/09/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Arthur Edwards

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the royal photographer Arthur Edwards. 

He is a Fleet Street legend and, for more than thirty years, has captured the most memorable moments of the House of Windsor - from the first tentative pictures of a teenage Lady Diana Spencer to the balcony kiss at the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. 

He's travelled the world, met the Pope and seen inside the Oval Office and the Kremlin - it's a life far removed from his early life in the East End of London where money was very tight and his mother saved up her wages as a cleaner to buy him his first camera. 

Record: Panis Angelicus 
Book: A photographic album with pictures of his family 
Luxury: An inexhaustible supply of tea and a kettle 

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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