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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: Sybil Marshall

07/11/1993

Sybil Marshall

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Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Sybil Marshall

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Sybil Marshall.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week has just produced her first novel in her 80th year. Sybil Marshall will be talking to Sue Lawley about this achievement, about her life in her beloved Fenlands of East Anglia, and about the village school she ran which revolutionised primary-school teaching methods.

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

Favourite track: Exsultate Jubilate Hallelujah Chorus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Luxury: Inexhaustible supply of laundered Swiss lawn handkerchiefs

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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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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The 'Brady Bill' and the New England fall

The 'Brady Bill' and the New England fall

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Congress passes the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act.

A blazing New England fall offers relief from the violence and disaster of the television news and Congress passes the 'Brady Bill' for gun control.

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