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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: Jonathon Porritt

11/06/1989

Jonathon Porritt

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Sue Lawley's castaway is director of Friends of the Earth Jonathon Porritt

Sue Lawley's castaway is director of Friends of the Earth Jonathon Porritt.

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Director of Friends of the Earth Jonathon Porritt. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passionate commitment to the preservation of the planet, and also confessing that, even though he is seen by many as the guru of self-sufficiency and all things green, he would be totally at a loss when it came to surviving island life.

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

Favourite track: Humpback Whale Music by Humpback Whales
Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Fountain pen

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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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President Nixon's 1972 visit to China, a complaint from a Chinese official about Letter from America, and the Chinese attitude towards liberty following Tiananmen Square.

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