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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: Fred Zinnemann

20/01/1991

Fred Zinnemann

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Sue Lawley's castaway is director Fred Zinnemann

Sue Lawley's castaway is director Fred Zinnemann.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs is a man who has directed some of the most popular and memorable films in the history of cinema - High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma! and A Man for All Seasons. He is Fred Zinnemann, and he will be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood at the beginning of the century in imperial Vienna, his thwarted ambitions to be a musician, and the years he spent working in Hollywood where he directed, and on several occasions discovered, some of the best-known names in the film world, including Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra.

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

Favourite track: Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Very large self renewing bottle of scotch

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Saddam Hussein or the Bogie Man

Saddam Hussein or the Bogie Man

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How is Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and the Gulf war viewed by the Iraqi people?

Whilst Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles attack Israel, Alistair Cooke considers how the 24/7 spontaneous news coverage is being viewed by both the allies and the Iraqis.    

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