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Desert Island Discs: Clive Jenkins

14/10/1990

Clive Jenkins

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Sue Lawley's castaway is trade unionist Clive Jenkins

Sue Lawley's castaway is trade unionist Clive Jenkins.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the most colourful and controversial members of Britain's trade union movement. He is the former General-Secretary of The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs - Clive Jenkins. Now retired, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about a career which has encompassed disappointment but also considerable triumph, as well as looking back on his Methodist working-class upbringing in South Wales, and the path he trod from there to a position where he wielded extensive power and influence in the tough world of industrial relations. 

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

Book: Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Luxury: Video player and tape of Citizen Kane

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