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Paul Hogarth

Paul Hogarth

FromDesert Island Discs


Paul Hogarth

FromDesert Island Discs

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 1998
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist and illustrator Paul Hogarth. He has portrayed A Year in Provence for Peter Mayle, depicted Doris Lessing's Africa and captured Majorca with Robert Graves.Born into a working-class family, his parents disapproved of his two great loves - travel and drawing. In the face of their opposition, he won a scholarship to art school where he was drawn into radical politics, becoming a communist and abandoning both art and family to fight in Spain. A popular figure with writers, he could match Brendan Behan drink for drink, and survived a 30-year working relationship with Graham Greene. Now 80, he says he still has the urge to travel, and continues to draw on his rich and varied life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Far Horizons by Glyn Boyd Harte
Book: Times Atlas of World History
Luxury: Solar-powered Apple Mac
Released:
Jan 11, 1998
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.