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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: Jeffrey Bernard

10/03/1991

Jeffrey Bernard

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Sue Lawley's castaway is Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard

Sue Lawley's castaway is Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard. His Low Life column has gained him something of a cult following over the 15 years or so it's been appearing; slightly irregularly. It concentrates on the kind of life in Soho which seems often to revolve solely around drinking, women and gambling - the kind of life Jeffrey Bernard enjoys, by his own admission. And of course, last year Keith Waterhouse turned some of these columns into the highly-successful West End hit Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell - a production starring Peter O'Toole which is about to return to the Shaftesbury Theatre next month.

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

Favourite track: Introitus Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Luxury: Hgih-powered hunting rifle and ammunition

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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.

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