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Desert Island Discs

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.

Desert Island Discs: Joseph Allen

13/04/1985

Joseph Allen

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Roy Plomley's castaway is physicist Joseph Allen

Roy Plomley's castaway is physicist Joseph Allen.

Joseph Allen, the physicist, joined NASA in 1967 as a scientist astronaut. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he describes his lengthy training as an astronaut, the problems of space flight, and he describes his recent trip in the space shuttle to recover two satellites, which necessitated an unfettered walk in space.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] 

Favourite track: Minor Blue by David Darling
Book: A number of Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Luxury: Family pocket watch

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1946 – 2004.

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics. Over 900 programmes, as broadcast from 1946 – 2004.

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Anniversaries to remember

06/06/2014

Anniversaries to remember

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Anniversaries to remember

Presidential gaffe over wartime anniversary.

Uproar over president's anniversary plans to visit German war cemetery but not a concentration camp.

Uproar over president's anniversary plans to visit German war cemetery but not a concentration camp.

This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.

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