News and current affairs. With Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Thought for the Day. 
1.
Norah Blaney
Oh Mr Porter
Athene Seyler
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sun 02 Oct 1988
Actor
Sue Lawley's castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the actress Athene Seyler. She first appeared on the stage 80 years ago as Rosalind in As You Like It - a part she can still recite - and now, at 99, she looks back with pleasure on her many happy years as one of Britain's finest comic actresses.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
2.
Castaway's favourite
Robert Schumann
Du bist wie eine Blume (from Myrthen)
Soloist: Kiri Te Kanawa, Richard Amner
3.
Asaf
Pack Up Your Troubles
Soloist: Charles Chiltern Choir: The Cast Of Oh What A Lovely War
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Broadcast
First broadcast: Mon 30 Apr 1956
British actor
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Athene Seyler.
Choices
3.
Felix Mendelssohn
Dance of the Clowns (Bergomask) (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Malcolm Sargent
4.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia antartica'
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Adrian Boult
6.
Sir William Walton
Popular Song (from Façade)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Constant Lambert
7.
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 In E Minor
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
8.
Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Gloria
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