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Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005

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December 26, 2004 · 36 min

Sue Lawley's castaway is the actress Kim Cattrall. Kim Cattrall became a household name in her forties as a result of playing man-eater, defiant singleton and PR mogul Samantha Jones in Sex and the City. She is about to star in the play…
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December 19, 2004 · 35 min

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John Fortune

December 12, 2004 · 36 min

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Sir Bobby Robson

December 5, 2004 · 36 min

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Tracey Emin

November 28, 2004 · 33 min

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Clive Stafford Smith

November 21, 2004 · 34 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. Clive Stafford Smith spent more than 25 years representing people on death row. He's saved hundreds of lives and counts his clients among his friends. He says…
Matthew Bourne

November 19, 2004 · 36 min

Sue Lawley's guest this week is the internationally acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne. He was born in the East End of London in 1960. As a child, his great passion was musicals and stage shows - rather than ballet. Despite his later…
Ann Leslie

November 7, 2004 · 35 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the distinguished foreign correspondent Ann Leslie. She has witnessed and reported on some of the most significant events of the past 30 years including the fall of the Berlin wall; the failed coup…
Matthew Pinsent

October 31, 2004 · 34 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent. Matthew Pinsent won his fourth Olympic gold medal at this summer's games in Athens. His first three were all won rowing with Sir Steve Redgrave - as a pair in…
Jack Mapanje

October 24, 2004 · 34 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the poet Dr Jack Mapanje who is one of the most important living African poets. He was born into a poor household in a typical African village in 1944, when Malawi (then Nyasaland) was a British colony…
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October 17, 2004 · 37 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the Liberal Democrat politician Sir Menzies Campbell. Born in Glasgow, he excelled at both academia and sports making it to the University in Glasgow and then Stanford in California where he studied law…
Anne Scott James

October 10, 2004 · 38 min

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the journalist and writer Anne Scott-James. Now in her 92nd year, Anne Scott-James came from a line of critics and writers and became one of the first women career journalists, editors and columnists…