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Sue Lawley's castaway is columnist Jean Rook.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs claims to be the highest-paid woman journalist in Britain - one of a disappearing species. The star columnist Jean Rook has shared her life for eighteen years with the millions of readers of her national newspaper column. And it's been life that has embraced tragedy as well as triumph - over the last three years she has written in her column about her experiences of breast cancer and widowhood. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the ups and downs of her life and career.

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

Favourite track: Eton Boating Song by Eton College
Book: Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Luxury: Computer

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 Jul 1990 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

    • A London Symphony.
    • EMI.

  • The Band of the Grenadier Guards

    On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at

    • Holiday in England.
    • Eclipse.

  • Elton John

    Candle In The Wind

    • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
    • DJM.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Eton College

      Eton Boating Song

      • Eton Sings the Boating Song.
      • Cathedral.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)

    Soloist: Maria Callas Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    • The Maria Callas Collection.
    • Stylus.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

    Soloist: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • Piano Ctos.
    • Decca.

  • Vangelis

    Chariots of Fire

    • Chariots Of Fire.
    • Polydor.

  • Dire Straits

    Romeo and Juliet

    • Making Movies.
    • Vertigo.

  • Book Choice

    • Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

  • Luxury Choice

    • Computer

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Jean Rook

Broadcasts

  • Sun 15 Jul 1990 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 20 Jul 1990 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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