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Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000
Hosted by BBC Radio 4 · EN
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
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Michael Green
May 16, 1999Tap to summarizeThis week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Michael Green. As Chairman of Carlton Communications he is one of the most powerful men in British television and the driving force behind digital TV. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Jersualem by Vangelis Book: The Complete Works by Sigmund Freud Luxury: Digital TV
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Sep 7, 1997Tap to summarizeThe castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the literary critic, Sir Frank Kermode. One of the most influential teachers of his age, he is credited with bringing the new literary theory of Structuralism to this country. Something, as he admits to Sue Lawley, he now profoundly regrets. He traces his life, "lived like tumbleweed in the wind", from a short-sighted, studious boy growing up on the Isle of Man to King Edward Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Cantata BWV 106 The Actus Tragicus by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Samuel Palmer's painting Moonlit Landscape
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