Max Hastings - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Max Hastings is the new editor of the Daily Telegraph. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about the influence of his father, MacDonald Hastings, about his life as a journalist, first on Londoner's Diary, then as a war correspondent in the Middle East and the Falklands, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The Tonight Programme by McDonald Hastings
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Word processor linked to a Fleet Street newspaper

Further episodes of Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

Further podcasts by BBC Radio 4

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