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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: Alfred Wainwright

04/09/1988

Alfred Wainwright

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Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Alfred Wainwright

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Alfred Wainwright.

For people who enjoy walking on the Cumbrian fells there's one indispensable companion. It's a Wainwright; a small guidebook, mapped, written and illustrated by Alfred Wainwright, who's Sue Lawley's castaway this morning in Desert Island Discs. Wainwright has written some 50 books and his Lake District guides have sold more than a million. He'll be talking about his beloved Lake District and choosing eight records.

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

Favourite track: Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme) by Johnny Mathis
Book: Two photographs (one of wife; one of 1928 Blackburn Rovers team)
Luxury: Mirror

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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: Yellowstone National Park, 1988

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Yellowstone National Park, 1988

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Yellowstone National Park, 1988

Yellowstone centre is saved from wildfires which have destroyed a million acres.

Too strange to be believed, the natural phenomena that prompted the founding of the US national parks.

Too strange to be believed, the natural phenomena that prompted the founding of the US national parks.

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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