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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: Alan Clark

01/01/1995

Alan Clark

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Sue Lawley's castaway is diarist Alan Clark

Sue Lawley's castaway is diarist Alan Clark.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the politician, historian and diarist Alan Clark. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the impact his alarmingly frank diaries - published in 1993 - made on his colleagues, friends and enemies. Also, on the island he'll be ruminating on love, pain, parents, political ambition and the many attractions of his island exile.

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

Favourite track: Saul The Dead March by George Frideric Handel
Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Luxury: Piano

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Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

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Newt Gingrich becomes speaker of the US House of Representatives. American apathy towards foreign policy and Clinton's shift towards the centre are explored by Alistair Cooke.

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