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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: Rabbi Hugo Gryn

10/07/1994

Rabbi Hugo Gryn

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Sue Lawley's castaway is Rabbi Hugo Gryn.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Rabbi Hugo Gryn. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how his happy and secure childhood in Czechoslovakia was devastated by Nazism and how he survived two years in concentration camps. He'll also be discussing how his commitment to bettering relations between people of differing faiths is rooted in his experience of persecution during the Second World War.

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

Favourite track: Kol Haoalm Kulo Gesher Tzar M' Od by Israel Zohar
Book: Biography of Churchill by Martin Gilbert
Luxury: A parking space

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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: William Fulbright (1905-1995)

William Fulbright (1905-1995)

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, William Fulbright (1905-1995)

Former Arkansas Senator William Fulbright remembered.

Senator William Fulbright (1905-1995) is remembered by Alistair Cooke, including his work as a tenacious young politian and as an ambassador for American students studying abroad.

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