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Alison Richard

Sue Lawley's castaway is academic Professor Alison Richard.

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the academic Professor Alison Richard. Professor Alison Richard is Cambridge University's first full-time female Vice-Chancellor. An anthropologist by training, the role of Vice-Chancellor makes her the principal academic and administrative officer of one of Britain's oldest universities, at the head of some 18,000 undergraduates and assets of more than a billion pounds.

She has been in post for just over a year and, for her, it is a return to the university where she studied as an undergraduate. She accepted the post after spending 30 years in America at Yale University - the last eight there as Provost. But much of her professional life has been based not in the ivory towers of academe, but in remote jungles and foothills working as an anthropologist studying the Madagascan lemur.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The end of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
by Richard Strauss
Book: Journals by Captain Cook
Luxury: Solar-powered shower

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Fri 11 Mar 2005 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Miles Davis

    The Pan Piper

    • Sketches of Spain.
    • CBS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St Matthew Passion - O Haupt voll Blut

    Orchestra: Concertbouw Orchestra & Chorus, Amsterdam Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • St Matthew Passion.
    • Teldec.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Sympathy For The Devil

    • Sympathy for the Devil.
    • ABKCO.

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Looking Out my Back Door

    • Creedence Country.
    • Fantasy.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Richard Strauss

      Der Rosenkavalier Act 3 (finale)

      Soloist: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

      • Der Rosenkavalier.
      • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations - Aria

    Soloist: Glenn Could

    • Goldberg Variations.
    • CBS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Spurn Point (from Four Studies in English Folk-song)

    Soloist: Laurence Perkins Orchestra: The New London Orchestra Conductor: Landon Ronald Corp

    • The Playful Pachyderm.
    • Hyperion.

  • Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

    Once In Royal David's City

    • Christmas Carols from King’s College.
    • EMI.

  • Book Choice

    • Journals - Captain Cook

  • Luxury Choice

    • Solar-powered shower

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Alison Richard

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Mar 2005 11:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 11 Mar 2005 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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