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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: Arthur Scargill

10/04/1988

Arthur Scargill

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Sue Lawley's castaway is President of the National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill

Sue Lawley's castaway is President of the National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill.

This week, Sue Lawley casts away Arthur Scargill, the President of the National Union of Mineworkers, who admits to being orderly in his everyday life, and that he would devise a plan to enable him to have a store of food and proper living accommodation. In choosing his music to take with him, he pays particular attention to black American jazz.

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

Favourite track: Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go by The London Emmanuel Choir
Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Luxury: The Mona Lisa

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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: The Augusta National, 1988

08/06/2014

The Augusta National, 1988

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, The Augusta National, 1988

Getting away from it all, at America's most beautiful golf course.

Enjoying a different pace of life at the Augusta National, a Georgia Shangri-La.

Enjoying a different pace of life at the Augusta National, a Georgia Shangri-La.

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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