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Harold Evans

Sue Lawley's castaway is journalist and writer Harold Evans.

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Harold Evans. One of the great campaigning journalists of all time, as editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s he argued the the case for cervical smear tests for women. At The Sunday Times, he highlighted the problems of the Thalidomide children. When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times he was given the job of editor and then sacked. After writing a book which decribed how a newspaper changes when the owner becomes editorially involved, he left for America where he lives a life of apparent glamour, with his wife, magazine editor Tina Brown.

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

Favourite track: Mache Dich Mein Herze Rein by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: History of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote
Luxury: Silk pyjamas

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45 minutes

Last on

Fri 7 Apr 2000 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      St Matthew Passion - Mache dich, mein Herze

      Soloist: Cornelius Hauptmann Choir: The Baroque Soloists

      • St Matthew Passion.
      • Archiv Production.

  • Ambrose and His Orchestra

    They Didn't Believe Me

    • Yesterdays: The Unforgettable Music of Jerome Kern.
    • AVID.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Mir ist so wunderbar (from Fidelio)

    Soloist: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Josef Greindl, and Antona Dermota Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    • Fidelio Op. 72.
    • EMI.

  • Jesse James

  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)

    Soloist: Jessye Norman Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Ray Leppard

    • Dido and Aenas.
    • Philips.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major - 2nd movement

    Artist: George Pieterson, Arthur Grumiaux, Koji Toyoda, Max Lesuer and Janos Scholz

    • Clarinet Quintet K.581, Oboe Quartet K.370.
    • Philips.

  • Pilgrims' Chorus (from TannhΓ¤user)

    Choir: Vienna Staatsopernchor Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Conductor: Sir George Solti

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Two Trumpets in C major

    Soloist: Wynton Marsalis

    • Portrait of Wynton Marsalis.
    • CBS.

  • Book Choice

    • History of the American Civil War - Shelby Foote

  • Luxury Choice

    • Silk pyjamas

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Harold Evans

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Apr 2000 11:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 7 Apr 2000 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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