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Desert Island Discs
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This Week's Guest:
Alison Richard

Sunday 6  March
Repeated
Friday 11  March
Alison's  Choice

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the academic Professor Alison Richard.                                          

Professor Alison Richard is Cambridge University’s first full-time female Vice-Chancellor.  An anthropologist by training, the role of Vice-Chancellor makes her the principal academic and administrative officer of one of Britain’s oldest universities, at the head of some 18,000 undergraduates and assets of more than a billion pounds.

She has been in post for just over a year and, for her, it is a return to the university where she studied as an undergraduate.  She accepted the post after spending thirty years in America at Yale University - the last eight there as Provost.  But much of her professional life has been based not in the ivory towers of academe, but in remote jungles and foothills working as an anthropologist studying the Madagascan lemur. 

1.The Pan Piper
Performer Miles Davis
Composer G Evans
Publisher Gillian Music
CD Title Sketches of Spain
Track 3
Label CBS
Rec No:4606042

2.O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Performer Concertbouw Orchestra & Chorus, Amsterdam conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Composer Bach
Publisher Teldec
CD Title St Matthew Passion
Track Cd3 trk 3
Label Teldec
Rec No:8.35668

3.Sympathy for the Devil
Performer Rolling Stones
Composer Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Publisher ABKCO Music inc.
CD Title Sympathy for the Devil
Track 3
Label ABKCO
Rec No:9810612

4.Looking' out my back door
Performer Credence Clearwater Revival
Composer J C Fogerty
Publisher Prestige Music
CD Title Creedence Country
Track 12
Label Fantasy
Rec No:CDFE 518

5.The end of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
Performer Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
Composer Richard Strauss
Publisher EMI
CD Title Der Rosenkavalier
Track Cd3 trk 13
Label EMI
Rec No: CDS5562422 

6.Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations
Performer Glenn Could
Composer Bach
Publisher CBS
CD Title Goldberg Variations
Track 1
Label CBS
Rec No:44868

7.Spurn Point from Four Studies in English Folk-song
Performer Laurence Perkins & the New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp
Composer Vaughan Williams
Publisher Hyperion
CD Title The Playful Pachyderm
Track 8
Label Hyperion
Rec No:CDA 67453

8.Once in Royal David's City
Performer Choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Sir David Willocks
Composer Alexander -Gauntlett
Publisher EMI
CD Title Christmas Carols from King's College
Track 1
Label EMI
Rec No:CDC 7475002

Record: Der Rosenkavalier
Book: Journals of Captain Cook
Luxury: Solar powered shower

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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Sue Lawley to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.
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