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Sue Lawley's castaway is the journalist Taki.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is proud to describe himself as a playboy - he is Taki Theodoracopulos - the millionaire journalist who pens the Spectator's High Life column every week. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in Greece, where his father was a self-made shipping magnate, his subsequent life of tennis and nightclubs with the international jet-set and the abrupt end to this existence when he spent two months in Pentonville Prison after being found in possession of cocaine at Heathrow Airport.

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

Favourite track: Lilli Marlene by German Soldiers
Book: Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Luxury: Boxing punchbag

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Fri 3 Dec 1993 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Al Bowlly

    Easy Come Easy Go

    • Pennies From Heaven.
    • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • German Soldiers

      Lilli Marlene

      • Cetra.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Madamina, il catalogo Γ¨ questo (from Don Giovanni)

    • Don Giovanni.
    • Erato.

  • Artie Shaw

    Begin the Beguine

    • Cole Porter Original Casts Centenary Tribute.
    • Flapper.

  • Ethel Merman

    You're The Top

    • Cole Porter Original Casts Centenary Tribute.
    • Flapper.

  • Johann Strauss

    Radetzky March

    • Radetzky March.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Louis Armstrong

    West End Blues

    • Louis Armstrong Great Original Performances 1923.
    • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro)

    • Le Nozze De Figaro.
    • Decca.

  • Book Choice

    • Essential Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway

  • Luxury Choice

    • Boxing punchbag

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Taki

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Nov 1993 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 3 Dec 1993 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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