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Baroness Blackstone

Sue Lawley's castaway is academic and Master of Birkbeck College Baroness Blackstone.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Baroness Blackstone.

She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her political radicalisation at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, the difficulties of working motherhood and the different demands of her varied professional life encompassing the academic, political and public worlds.

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

Favourite track: Cosi fan Tutte Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Luxury: Tennis wall, balls and racket

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 26 Aug 1994 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nei giardin del bello (from Don Carlos)

    Soloist: Shirley Verret Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra

    • Opera Passion I.
    • EMI.

  • Xanrof

    Le Fiacre

    Soloist: Jean Sablon Orchestra: Wal-Berg and his Orchestra

    • 45": Sablon Successes.
    • HMV.

  • Brecht/Weill

    Surabaya Johnny

    Soloist: Lotte Lenya

    • Lotte Lenya In Happy End.
    • CBS.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

    • The Incomparable Ella.
    • Polydor.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor: George Solti

    • Decca.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Soave sia il vento (from Cosi fan tutte)

      Orchestra: Mozart Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Soloist: Karl Böhm

      • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)

    Soloist: Janet Baker, James King Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam

    • Philips.

  • Book Choice

    • Middlemarch - George Eliot

  • Luxury Choice

    • Tennis wall, balls and racket

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Baroness Blackstone

Broadcasts

  • Sun 25 Apr 1993 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 30 Apr 1993 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 26 Aug 1994 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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