BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Derek Jameson

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Derek Jameson

Duration:: 40 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 03 July 1994

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the journalist and broadcaster Derek Jameson. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early poverty-stricken years in an East End foster home and his discovery, at the age of eight, that one of the girls in the home he had thought of as his older sister was, in fact, his mother. He'll also be describing how an aptitude for reading and writing, the encouragement of a concerned teacher and his own determination led him into journalism, where he started his career as an outdoor messenger at Reuters. From there, he went on to edit three Fleet Street newspapers and more recently, to become a popular radio personality.

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

Favourite track: Tosca Aria - E Lucevan Le Stelle by Giacomo Puccini
Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Luxury: Word processor

Harry Nilsson Without You
The Singer And The Song - Compilation, Virgin
Michael Balfe The Bohemian Girl: I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls
Soloist: Dame Joan Sutherland Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Your Hundred Best Tunes, Vol. 4, Decca
The Red Army Ensemble: Moscow Military District Tipperary
Soviet Army Chorus And Band, Angel
Anton Karas The Harry Lime Theme (from The Third Man)
The Third Man, Decca
Giacomo Puccini E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)
Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Puccini - Tosca, Deutsche Grammophon
The Beatles Help!
Help!, Parlophone
Giacomo Puccini Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème)
Orchestra: Orchestra Of The Academy Of St Cecilia Conductor: Alberto Erede
Puccini - La Boheme, London
Sir Edward Elgar Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 in D major 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Orchestra: The BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Colin Davis
Last Night Of The Proms, Philips

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