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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: Glenys Kinnock

20/11/1994

Glenys Kinnock

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Sue Lawley's castaway is politician Glenys Kinnock

Sue Lawley's castaway is politician Glenys Kinnock.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Glenys Kinnock. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her upbringing in Wales, her role during the years of Neil Kinnock's leadership of the Labour Party and her own reincarnation as a politician on the European stage as an MEP.

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

Favourite track: Was A Sunny Day by Paul Simon
Book: Atlas of the Third World
Luxury: Toilet bag full of skin-barrier creams

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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: Newt Gingrich and the constitution

Newt Gingrich and the constitution

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Newt Gingrich's appointment as the Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1994.

Newt Gingrich is installed as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alistair Cooke examines his suggested amendments to the constitution, and the life of new legislation.

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