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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: Shirley Anne Field

14/11/1993

Shirley Anne Field

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Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Shirley Anne Field

Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Shirley Anne Field.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Shirley-Anne Field. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her Dickensian upbringing in different children's homes in the North of England and her extraordinary success as an actress in the 1960s, when she starred in The Entertainer and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. She'll also be reminiscing about her friendship with John F Kennedy and an ill-fated date with Frank Sinatra.

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

Favourite track: Piano Concerto 1 in C by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Reader's Digest
Luxury: Large Chippendale mirror

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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: Nuclear non-proliferation

Nuclear non-proliferation

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Dr. Kathleen Bailey's speech on nuclear deterrence before the Senate at Livermore.

Kathleen Bailey, a straight talking organiser shakes up a world conference at Livermore, with the renewal of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty high on political agendas.

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