Sir Ian Trethowan - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Sir Ian Trethowan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his days as a copy boy earning 27/6d on the Daily Sketch, his early journalistic career, his transition from television presenter to manager of BBC Radio, and some of the dramas and crises which characterised his days as Director-General of the BBC. A lifelong opera lover, he'll also be choosing eight records for his island idyll.

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

Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier (Hab Mirs Gelobt) Final Act by Richard Strauss
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Champagne

Further episodes of Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

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