Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Absent Friends: Harold Evans

Harold Evans

Absent Friends

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From Bach to Vivaldi, campaigning journalist Harold Evans makes his castaway choices.

4 Extra Debut. From Bach to Vivaldi. Campaigning journalist and editor Harold Evans shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 2000.

From Bach to Vivaldi

Campaigning journalist and editor Harold Evans shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. 

One of the great campaigning journalists of all time, as editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s - Harold Evans argued the the case for cervical smear tests for women. 

At The Sunday Times, he highlighted the problems of the Thalidomide children. 

When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times he was given the job of editor and then sacked. 

After writing a book which decribed how a newspaper changes when the owner becomes editorially involved, he left for America where he lives a life of apparent glamour, with his wife, magazine editor Tina Brown.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Absent Friends

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Remembering some castaways from Desert Island Discs who passed away in 2020.

Remembering the  castaways who passed away in 2020. From the Desert Island Discs archive.

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