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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: Peter Jonas

08/07/1990

Peter Jonas

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Sue Lawley's castaway is director of the ENO Peter Jonas

Sue Lawley's castaway is director of the ENO Peter Jonas.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the English National Opera Peter Jonas. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his teenage ambition to run a great opera house, his subsequent rejection from the London Coliseum when he applied to sweep the stage there, and his return as its director some 11 years later. He'll also be talking about his fight against Hodgkin's Disease, his eleven years as personal and administrative assistant to Sir Georg Solti in Chicago and his plans for the future of the English National Opera.

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

Favourite track: Die Meistersinger Act 1 Prelude by Richard Wagner
Book: City of God by Saint Augustine
Luxury: Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle, in a fridge

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