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Radio 4,22 Dec 1979,40 mins

Sir Osbert Lancaster

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Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster. Favourite track: Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Live sturgeon

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