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The castaway in this week's edition of Desert Island Discs is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. After a lifelong devotion to music, she will be whittling down her choice of eight records with great difficulty. Now Patron of the Leeds Piano Competition and the Yehudi Menuhin School, as well as President of the Royal Northern College of Music, the Duchess of Kent studied music herself until she was twenty-five. Her Royal Highness will be talking to Sue Lawley about her love of music, her Yorkshire childhood and her prolific work for charity. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Ave Verum Corpus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Lamp with solar batteries
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- TrackArtist
- 1.Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in D major, K284Keyboard Sonata No. 6 in D major, K284Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 2.Symphony No. 6 in B minor 'Pathétique' - 2nd movementSymphony No. 6 in B minor 'Pathétique' - 2nd movementPeter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 3.The Tuba TuneThe Tuba TuneFrancis Jackson