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Dame Stephanie Shirley

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From Bach to Schubert. Digital entrepreneur Stephanie Shirley shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From May 2010.

From Bach to Schubert.

Digital entrepreneur Stephanie Shirley shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with 1,000 children and just two adults.

She went on to set up a computer programming company which made her a millionaire many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune and now is an ambassador for philanthropy.

Her determination throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was a life worth saving.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in May 2010.

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