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Sue Lawley's castaway is restaurant critic Fay Maschler.

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 three times a week, comparing caramel crackling and moue of mousse, on our behalf. She chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: Goldberg Variations Nos. 1 and 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Luxury: A huge supply of ouzo

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Fri 19 Mar 199909:00
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Bob Dylan

    The Times They are A-Changin'

    • Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series: Volume 1.
    • Columbia.

  • Charles Trenet

    Que reste-t-il do nos amours? What remains of our love?

    • Charles Trenet.
    • Columbia.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    On a tree by a river (Tit Willow) (from The Mikado)

    Librettist: William Gilbert.

  • Joanna Carey

    The Banjo Song - PRIVATE TAPE

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Goldberg variations - Variations Nos. 1 & 2

      • 1959 Salzburg Recital.
      • Sony Classical.

  • Sally Bradshaw - Gertraud Gamerith - Franz Zebinger

    John Anderson My Jo - PRIVATE TAPE

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Divinités du Styx (from Alceste)

    • The Voice of the Century.
    • EMI.

  • Mel Tormé

    Mountain Greenery

    • Rediscover the 50s: Sugartime.
    • Old Gold.

  • Book Choice

    • Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

  • Luxury Choice

    • A huge supply of ouzo

Credits

PresenterSue Lawley
Interviewed GuestFay Maschler

Broadcasts

  • Sun 14 Mar 199911:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 19 Mar 199909:00
    BBC Radio 4

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