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Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

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Listen to Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 218 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Keith Floyd

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is television cook Keith Floyd. Renowned for his garrulous charm as much as for his culinary e...

31:59Dec 30, 1990

Brian Keenan

Last August the world rejoiced at the liberation of a man who, to all intents and purposes, had vanished from its face more than four years...

37:01Dec 23, 1990

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the great European artists of today - Eduardo Paolozzi. One of his positions is Her...

37:49Dec 2, 1990

Baroness Trumpington

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs rejoices in the title of the Baroness Trumpington of Sandwich in the County of Kent. A tirel...

35:57Nov 25, 1990

Elisabeth Welch

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the black American singer Elisabeth Welch, who, in a career spanning 60 years, made famou...

34:38Nov 18, 1990

Rt Hon Barbara Castle

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Baroness Castle of Blackburn - better known to most people as Barbara Castle. For 34...

35:47Nov 11, 1990

Lord Annan

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a man who, among many other achievements, gave his name to a famous report in the 1970s on...

37:06Nov 4, 1990

Nicholas Snowman

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the South Bank, Nicholas Snowman. Very much a man of the arts, an...

35:02Oct 28, 1990

Ernie Wise

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is comedian Ernie Wise. Since Eric Morecambe's death six years ago, Ernie has had to carve o...

35:16Oct 21, 1990

Clive Jenkins

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the most colourful and controversial members of Britain's trade union movement. He i...

24:10Oct 14, 1990

John Thaw

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is an actor who rose to fame by portraying two rather different sorts of policemen on the na...

36:55Oct 7, 1990

Gary Lineker

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the captain of the England football team Gary Lineker. Apprenticed to Leicester City at t...

34:11Sep 30, 1990

Barbara Windsor

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the effervescent actress Barbara Windsor. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her early life i...

35:03Sep 23, 1990

Dr Ruth Westheimer

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer. Born in Germany in the late 1920s, her Jewish family se...

36:25Sep 16, 1990

Lord Charteris

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a pillar of the British Establishment, Lord Charteris of Amisfield. Educated at Eton and...

36:53Sep 9, 1990

Robin Knox-Johnston

The Desert Island Discs guest this week is someone who should be particularly suited to castaway life - Robin Knox-Johnston was the first ma...

38:35Sep 2, 1990

Jean Rook

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs claims to be the highest-paid woman journalist in Britain - one of a disappearing species. T...

37:05Jul 15, 1990

Peter Jonas

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the English National Opera Peter Jonas. He'll be talking to Sue L...

37:01Jul 8, 1990

Kaffe Fassett

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the man who can be credited with having made knitting glamorous. Designer and knitter Kaf...

38:31Jul 1, 1990

George Carman QC

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the country's most expensive and sought-after barristers - George Carman QC. A vir...

36:47Jun 24, 1990

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