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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: Anthony Rolfe Johnson

26/04/1992

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

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Sue Lawley's castaway is tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Sue Lawley's castaway is tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the distinguished tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his Methodist upbringing in the East End of London, his years as a farmer in Sussex and explaining why he was 29 years old before he took his enormous talent for singing seriously.

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

Favourite track: Gloria In Excelis Deo by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Welsh-English Dictionary
Luxury: Parquet floor and tap shoes

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Riots in Los Angeles, 1992

Riots in Los Angeles, 1992

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The Rodney King police trial and the start of the 1992 LA riots.

Following the conclusion of trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King, Cooke details the violent disturbances in Los Angeles happening in the wake of the verdict.

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