Dr Ruth Westheimer

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991 by BBC

Sep 16, 199036:25Society & Culture

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 sent her out of the country as the Nazis rose to power. Sent to the safe but lonel...

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