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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: David Hare

26/02/1989

David Hare

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Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright and director David Hare

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright and director David Hare.

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the playwright and theatre director David Hare - a man who has made his name with plays like Pravda, Plenty, Lickin' Hitler and, most recently, The Secret Rapture. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the impact of the theatre on post-war Britain and his own role as one of the leading writers of left-wing intellectual drama.

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

Favourite track: Young and Foolish by Mabel Mercer
Book: Larousse Gastronomique
Luxury: Cricket bat & bowling machine

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: John Tower and Colonel North

John Tower and Colonel North

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Do the personal problems of John Tower mean he is unable to advise President Bush?

The Senate Committee's ruling that former Senator John Tower should not be allowed to join President Bush's cabinet, and the trial of Colonel Oliver North.

Kaleidoscope

A long-running arts review magazine programme which ran from 1973 to 1998.

Kaleidoscope: Saul Bellow

01/06/2014

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow talks with Jonathan Raban about his life and work.

Saul Bellow talks with Jonathan Raban about his work, in a profile of the author who revels in peeling back the layers of American society.

Garlanded with such major awards as the Nobel prize for literature and the Pulitzer prize, Saul Bellow lays claim to the title of America's greatest modern writer. Now, at the age of 74 Bellow talks with Jonathan Raban about his work, in a profile of the author who revels in peeling back the layers of American society.

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

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