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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: Albert & Michel Roux

26/10/1986

Albert & Michel Roux

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Michael Parkinson's castaway is restaurateurs Albert & Michel Roux

Michael Parkinson's castaway is restaurateurs Albert & Michel Roux.

Albert and Michel Roux each have their own restaurants, which are among the best in this country. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, they talk about their upbringing in France and their period as pastry cooks in the British Embassy in Paris. Then Albert became commis de cuisine to Lady Astor, and Michel chef to the Rothschilds, before they opened a restaurant together in England.

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

Favourite track: Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf
Book: Cookery books
Luxury: Book on how to manage people and ivory carving

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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: A Boston wake

07/06/2014

A Boston wake

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, A Boston wake

Celebrating the Boston Red Sox's non-victory.

Exuberant in the face of defeat, the Boston Red Sox lose the World Series but hold a splendid wake.

Exuberant in the face of defeat, the Boston Red Sox lose the World Series but hold a splendid wake.

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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