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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: Vivienne Westwood

28/06/1992

Vivienne Westwood

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Vivienne Westwood

Sue Lawley's castaway is fashion designer Vivienne Westwood

Sue Lawley's castaway is fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Avant-garde, surprising and often shocking, Vivienne first drew media attention when, in the late 1970s, she founded the punk movement with Malcolm McLaren. These days, though hardly orthodox, she has become more mainstream - in 1990 and 1991 she was named Designer of the Year, and she has just been awarded an OBE in the most recent Honours list. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her impressive career and revealing that, though fashion has been her life, her first love has always been books.

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

Favourite track: Sleeping Beauty Panorama, Act 2 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Multi-lingual dictionary

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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.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: America's exceptional weather

America's exceptional weather

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, America's exceptional weather

An examination of the bizarre weather across the United States in 1993.

Examining an unseasonably hot San Francisco summer and why America's weather, drowning Missouri and parching Georgia, is in the wrong place and refusing to budge.

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