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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: Ned Sherrin

09/07/1989

Ned Sherrin

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Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster Ned Sherrin

Sue Lawley's castaway is broadcaster Ned Sherrin.

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is something of a show business all-rounder - the moving spirit behind BBC TV's That Was the Week That Was, director of the musical Side by Side by Sondheim and currently presenter of Radio 4's Loose Ends. He is, of course, Ned Sherrin, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic childhood as a Somerset farmer's son, and the many different turns his life has subsequently taken.

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

Favourite track: As Time Goes By by Elisabeth Welch
Book: No Bed For Bacon by Caryl Brahms
Luxury: Seed potatoes

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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: The 1812 earthquake in Tennessee

The 1812 earthquake in Tennessee

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, The 1812 earthquake in Tennessee

Details of the 1812 earthquake in Tennessee and the inevitability of "the Big One".

The effect of the 1812 earthquake in New Madrid, Tennessee on the Eastern seaboard, and the inevitability of "the Big One", the earthquake predicted to devastate California.

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