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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: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

20/10/1991

Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

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Sue Lawley's castaway is the director of the V & A Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

Sue Lawley's castaway is the director of the V & A Elizabeth Esteve-Coll.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Director of one of Britain's most famous museums, the V & A. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her career at the V & A and the controversy she caused within her first year of office. She'll also be recalling how, at 19, she abandoned her university career and married a Spanish sea captain with whom she sailed the world.

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

Favourite track: Christus Natus Est (Mode I V) by The Choir Of Monks Of Saint Pierre De Solemes
Book: The Four Quartets by T S Eliot
Luxury: Expensive perfumed hand cream

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: 1991 Cambodian peace treaty

1991 Cambodian peace treaty

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Cambodian dictator Pol Pot is compared to Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro.   

The 1991 Cambodian peace treaty is signed in Paris. Alistair Cooke compares the rehabilitation of dictator Pol Pot to Cuba's Fidel Castro and Iraq's Saddam Hussein.   

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