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    Sir Laurens Van Der Post

    Sir Laurens Van Der Post

    FromDesert Island Discs

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    Sir Laurens Van Der Post

    FromDesert Island Discs

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    Length:
    39 minutes
    Released:
    Nov 10, 1996
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a writer, a traveller and an advisor to a Prince and Prime Minister.Now nearly 90, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early years in South Africa, his incarceration as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and his life-long campaign to save the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 17 in Dm 'Tempest' by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Golden Bough by James Frazer
    Luxury: Piano
    Released:
    Nov 10, 1996
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.