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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: Duncan Goodhew

07/06/1992

Duncan Goodhew

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Sue Lawley's castaway is swimmer Duncan Goodhew

Sue Lawley's castaway is swimmer Duncan Goodhew.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the swimmer Duncan Goodhew. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early life, which was dogged by misadventure - a fall from an apple tree left him permanently and completely bald; and in his early teens, he was discovered to be dyslexic. Nevertheless, these setbacks merely strengthened his resolve to succeed at swimming, and to go on and win a gold medal for the 100 metres breast-stroke at the Moscow Games.

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

Favourite track: O Mio Babbino Caro by Giacomo Puccini
Book: Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Wig

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