Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000

Sue Lawley's castaway is Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam.Favourite track: Chicago by Frank Sinatra Book: The collected works by Seamus Heaney Luxury: A globe

21 Mar 199935min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the award-winning restaurant critic Fay Maschler. Twenty-seven years after she won a competition to write a column for the Evening Standard, she is still eating out thr...

14 Mar 199934min

Sue Lawley's castaway is scriptwriter & Comic Relief founder Richard Curtis.Favourite track: And I Love Her by The Beatles Book: Guinness Book of Pop Luxury: Pizza Express in Notting Hill

28 Feb 199935min

This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is the opera singer Maria Ewing. Renowned for her acting ability as much as her voice - she portrayed Carmen as witty, clever and very very dangerous. Her...

21 Feb 199935min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the Romanian poet Nina Cassian. She was forbidden to return home, after a visit to New York, because of her outspoken critisism the Ceaucescu regime. The loneliness of ...

14 Feb 199938min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the pianist Andras Schiff. Born in Hungary, Bartok was the first composer he fell in love with and his music is still a regular part of his repertoire; despite making h...

7 Feb 199939min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the American travel writer Bill Bryson. His inspiration was his father; a great traveller who never quite made it to his intended destination. His best-selling books, N...

31 Jan 199937min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Born in Germany, she came to England as a refugee and moved to India as a young bride where she wrote her first film screenplay in 1961...

24 Jan 199936min