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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: Suzi Quatro

21/09/1986

Suzi Quatro

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Michael Parkinson's castaway is singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro

Michael Parkinson's castaway is singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro.

Suzi Quatro is an enormous success in her first acting role in the theatre, the lead in Annie Get Your Gun. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she talks about her upbringing in Detroit, where she played bongos in her father's band, her all-girl rock band, her great success in England as a leather-clad rocker with a string of hit records and her acting ambitions.

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

Favourite track: When I Fall In Love by Nat King Cole
Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Luxury: Piano

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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: United Nations in decline

07/06/2014

United Nations in decline

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, United Nations in decline

Once the hope of the world, the UN is now toothless - and broke.

Public confidence in the United Nations at its lowest as it loses its ability to adjudicate on international troubles.

Public confidence in the United Nations at its lowest as it loses its ability to adjudicate on international troubles.

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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