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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: Tessa Sanderson

17/11/1996

Tessa Sanderson

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Sue Lawley's castaway is Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson

Sue Lawley's castaway is Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson.

Atlanta was her sixth Olympic Games. The first was 20 years before. On Desert Island Discs, Tessa Sanderson reveals the competitive drive that brought her back from retirement at the age of 40 to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. She fondly recalls her rivalry with fellow competitor Fatima Whitbread, and remembers the moment she became the first and only British woman to win an Olympic throwing gold medal.

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

Favourite track: I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts
Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste

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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: Sexual harassment in the armed forces

Sexual harassment in the armed forces

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Sexual harassment in the armed forces

An examination of the revelation of sexual harassment in the US armed forces.

After public revelations of cases of sexual violence in the US Army and Navy Alistair Cooke examines the scandal of the sexual harassment of women in America's armed forces.

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