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Radio 4,09 Jul 1989,40 mins

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This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is something of a show business all-rounder - the moving spirit behind BBC TV's That Was the Week That Was, director of the musical Side by Side by Sondheim and currently presenter of Radio 4's Loose Ends. He is, of course, Ned Sherrin, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic childhood as a Somerset farmer's son, and the many different turns his life has subsequently taken. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: As Time Goes By by Elisabeth Welch Book: No Bed For Bacon by Caryl Brahms Luxury: Seed potatoes

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Up From Somerset
    Up From Somerset
    Peter Dawson
  3. 2.
    As Time Goes By
    As Time Goes By
    Elisabeth Welch
  4. 3.
    Trois Gymnopédies - No. 1
    Trois Gymnopédies - No. 1
    Erik Satie