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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: Nicholas Snowman

28/10/1990

Nicholas Snowman

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Sue Lawley's castaway is Director of the South Bank Centre Nicholas Snowman

Sue Lawley's castaway is Director of the South Bank Centre Nicholas Snowman.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the South Bank, Nicholas Snowman. Very much a man of the arts, and a determined apostle of all things new, he founded the University Opera Society when he was at Cambridge and the London Sinfonietta when he left. He then moved to Paris, where he was appointed Artistic Director of the Pompidou Centre.

His latest post at the South Bank has attracted considerable controversy, with one critic describing his concert programme as "seriously unattractive". He'll be discussing his vision of the South Bank's musical future with Sue Lawley and talking about his achievement of establishing, for the first time, a resident orchestra in Britain's largest arts centre.

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

Favourite track: String Quintet No 4 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Smiley's People by John Le Carre
Luxury: Coffee machine

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