HRH The Duchess of Kent
From Yehudi Menuhin to the Beatles. The Queen's cousin shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From December 1989.
From Yehudi Menuhin to the Beatles.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent - cousin to the Queen - shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley.
After a lifelong devotion to music, she will be whittling down her choice of eight records with great difficulty.
The Duchess studied music until she was 25.
She was the director of the National Foundation for Youth Music and served as the president of the Royal Northern College of Music.
Her Royal Highness tells Sue about her love of music, her Yorkshire childhood and her prolific work for charity.
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 on Christmas Eve 1989.
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