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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: Katharine Hamnett

21/05/1989

Katharine Hamnett

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Sue Lawley's castaway is designer Katharine Hamnett

Sue Lawley's castaway is designer Katharine Hamnett.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's most successful fashion designers - Katharine Hamnett.

She started in the business 10 years ago with a £500 loan, and now runs a company with a £10 million turnover. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the connection between politics and fashion, and also about her famous baggy white t-shirts, which bear political and ecological slogans, and the memorable occasion when she wore one of them on a visit to 10 Downing Street.

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

Favourite track: Big Head by Max Bygraves
Book: The I Ching
Luxury: Aircraft carrier (to decorate)

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Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Jim Wright and the Baltic rebellion

Jim Wright and the Baltic rebellion

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The beginnings of the rebellions in the Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania.

Gorbachev's offer to reduce Russian forces in Afghanistan, rebellions in Estonia and Lithuania, the student protests in Beijing, and the ethics hearing of Jim Wright.

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