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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: Lord Weinstock

23/05/1993

Lord Weinstock

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Lord Weinstock

Sue Lawley's castaway is businessman Lord Weinstock

Sue Lawley's castaway is businessman Lord Weinstock.

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

Born into a family of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was orphaned at the age of nine and brought up by his older brothers. He studied at the London School of Economics and married the daughter of a manufacturer - the owner of a small electrical company. By the age of 34, he was its Managing Director. Today that company is a huge institution - GEC - which its Managing Director Lord Weinstock has steered safely through the choppy waters of nine changes of government and six Prime Ministers. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work and about his passionate love of music.

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

Favourite track: Requiem - Recordare by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: If This Be A Man by Primo Levi
Luxury: Photograph album - family, friends, colleagues

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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.

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Long Island train shootings and gun control

The Long Island train shootings and gun control

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Does a multiple murder on a Long Island train prove that America has a problem with guns?

A random multiple murder on a Long Island train, America's problem with guns, the future for gun control and the failure of the 'Brady Bill'.

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