Sir Laurens Van Der Post

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a writer, a traveller and an advisor to a Prince and Prime Minister. Now nearly 90, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early years in South Africa, his incarceration as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and his life-long campaign to save the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 17 in Dm 'Tempest' by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Golden Bough by James Frazer Luxury: Piano

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Sir Laurens Van Der Post is an episode from Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996 by BBC.

This episode is 38:55 long.

This episode was published on Nov 10, 1996.

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