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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: Elaine Paige

12/07/1987

Elaine Paige

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Michael Parkinson's castaway is singer Elaine Paige

Michael Parkinson's castaway is singer Elaine Paige.

The castaway this week is the actress-singer Elaine Paige who, in conversation with Michael Parkinson, looks back on her career from her debut in the chorus of Hair, through the musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Grease, to becoming an international star in the part of Eva Peron in Evita.

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

Favourite track: Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles
Book: The complete works by Charles Dickens
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.

Alistair Cooke - Letter from America

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: An overnight hero

08/06/2014

An overnight hero

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, An overnight hero

Fan mail by the sack for Colonel Oliver North.

The Iran-Contra hearing's main witness becomes an unlikely hero to tens of thousands of Americans.

The Iran-Contra hearing's main witness becomes an unlikely hero to tens of thousands of Americans.

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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