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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: Lady Mosley

26/11/1989

Lady Mosley

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Sue Lawley's castaway is British Union of Fascists supporter Lady Mosley

Sue Lawley's castaway is British Union of Fascists supporter Lady Mosley.

This episode of Desert Island Discs exists for reference, as part of the most complete possible archive resource of programmes from the long-running series, and was broadcast in 1989. The castaway is Diana Mosley, a Mitford girl who married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. During the interview with Sue Lawley, Lady Mosley discusses her contentious continued denial of the Holocaust and admiration for Adolf Hitler, along with her and her husband’s imprisonment during most of the war years and her close friendship with the neighbours who shared her subsequent exile in France, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. 

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Favourite track: Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
Book: Books by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Soft pillow

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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.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Thomas Paine and the uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

Thomas Paine and the uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Thomas Paine and the uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

Why is President George Bush so reluctant to comment on the uprising in Hungary?

A profile of American revolutionary Thomas Paine, the rebellions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and President Bush's reluctance to comment on the uprisings.

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