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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: Kaye Webb

30/05/1993

Kaye Webb

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Sue Lawley's castaway is publisher Kaye Webb

Sue Lawley's castaway is publisher Kaye Webb.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a publisher.

Kaye Webb was made editor of Puffin Books in the 1960s, and held the job for nearly 20 years. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about those years and also about the crowded professional life which preceded them. As an assistant editor for the pocket magazine Lilliput in the 1930s, she commissioned contributions from distinguished authors such as Evelyn Waugh, George Bernard Shaw and Dylan Thomas.

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

Favourite track: Sea Pictures - Where Corals Lie by Edward Elgar
Book: Messages - poetry by Naomi Lewis
Luxury: Very big photograph album on a wheeling table

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

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Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics. Over 900 programmes, as broadcast from 1946 – 2004.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Gary Graham and the death penalty

Gary Graham and the death penalty

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Gary Graham and the death penalty

The complexity of state law on the death penalty and the need for a credible witness.

Texas death row inmate Gary Graham, the vagaries of constitutional interpretation, state law and the legal complexities of the death penalty.

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