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Albie Sachs
From Beethoven to Ella Fitzgerald. Judge Albie Sachs shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From November 2000.
Sue Lawley's castaway is judge Albie Sachs.
The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, his account of being placed in solitary confinement by the South African authorities, highlighted the dangers of campaigning against apartheid in the 1960s.
After a long exile in Britain, Albie Sachs returned to his homeland in the 1990s to help shape its new constitution and become one of its most senior judges.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.
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