AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Desert Island Discs: Margaret Thatcher among new shows to go online.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
She chose a survival manual as her book of choice and a photo album of her children as her luxury, revealing in her 1978 appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs something of the woman she was to become. From Friday fans of Margaret Thatcher will be able to listen to the recording of prime minister-to-be for the first time since then, as the BBC puts more than 450 editions of the UK's longest-running radio show online.
The new recordings date from 1951 to Desert Island Discs creator and original presenter Roy Plomley's swan song in 1985. But they still represent less than a third of more than 1,785 editions made by Plomley from the launch of the show in …
-
- Kirsty Young to host Desert Island Discs.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
June 27, 2006
700+ words
-
- Ben Southall's desert island discs.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
June 17, 2009
700+ words
-
- Desert Island Discs: which episode would you take to a desert island?
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
March 31, 2011
700+ words
-
- Lawley to quit Desert Island Discs.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
April 12, 2006
700+ words
-
- 500 Desert Island Discs episodes to be made available online.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
March 1, 2011
700+ words
