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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: Miriam Rothschild

23/04/1989

Miriam Rothschild

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Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Miriam Rothschild

Sue Lawley's castaway is biologist Miriam Rothschild.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is biologist and conservationist Miriam Rothschild. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her lifelong fascination with all forms of natural life, including her passion for fleas, worms and butterflies, and also how she welcomes the prospect of exile to the mythical island as an opportunity to discover and investigate unlimited flora and fauna. 

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

Favourite track: Cello Suite No 5 - Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Bag of wild flower seed

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Missouri abortion case

The Missouri abortion case

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The case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a landmark trial on abortion rights.

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