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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: Roger McGough

10/04/1994

Roger McGough

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Sue Lawley's castaway is poet Roger McGough

Sue Lawley's castaway is poet Roger McGough.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the poet Roger McGough. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in Liverpool where he showed little aptitude for literature - it wasn't until he went to Hull University that he discovered his true vocation. It was one that was to take him, via a best-selling number one record, Lily the Pink, with the group The Scaffold, to become one of the country's most enduringly successful poets.

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

Favourite track: Foghorns On The Mersey
Book: Times Atlas of the Night Sky
Luxury: Black cab

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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: Clinton’s global reputation

Clinton’s global reputation

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Clinton’s global reputation

President Clinton's portrayal in the foreign press in light of the Whitewater scandal.

The manipulative power of magazines, President Clinton's reputation abroad and the public demand for representation are explored by Alistair Cooke in the wake of Whitewater.

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