Lady Margaret Tebbit

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Margaret Tebbit. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the night 11 years ago when the IRA detonated a huge bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where she was staying with her husband for the Tory Party Conference. Since that dreadful night, she has been severely paralysed, and she'll be describing the effect on her life: the dreams she has in which she no longer has to use a wheelchair, the new friends she's made and the old ones who turned out not to be such good friends in adversity and how her previous experience of mental illness - in the form of severe depression - compares with her current physical incapacity.

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

Choices

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Glenn Miller

A String Of Pearls

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ach, ich fühl's (from The Magic Flute)

Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Soloist: Kiri Te Kanawa

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Eartha Kitt

Just An Old Fashioned Girl

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Cat Stevens

Morning Has Broken

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5.

Harry Secombe

God Be In My Head

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The Regimental Band of the Coldstream Guards

Trumpet Voluntary

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7.

Frank Sinatra

My Way

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8.

Castaway's favourite

Evert Taube

Nocturne

Soloist: Julian Lloyd Webber

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Book

Hillier's Dictionary of Plants by Hillier

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Luxury item

An endless team of Man Fridays!

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