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Lady Margaret Tebbit

Sue Lawley's castaway is wife of Norman Tebbit - 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]

Favourite track: Nocturne by Evert Taube
Book: Hillier's Dictionary of Plants by Hillier
Luxury: An endless team of Man Fridays

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jul 1996 09:05

Music Played

  • Glenn Miller

    A String Of Pearls

    • The Unforgettable.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ach, ich f眉hl's (from The Magic Flute)

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

    • Die Zauberflote.
    • Philips.
  • Eartha Kitt

    Just An Old Fashioned Girl

    • Eartha-Quake Vol 2.
    • Bear Family.
  • Yusuf Islam

    Morning Has Broken

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Island.
  • Harry Secombe

    God Be In My Head

    • I'll Walk With God.
    • Philips.
  • The Band of the Coldstream Guards

    Trumpet Voluntary

    • Regimental Marches Of The British Army.
    • Chandos.
  • Frank Sinatra

    My Way

    • New York New York.
    • Reprise.
  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Evert Taube

      Nocturne

      Soloist: Julian Lloyd Webber

      • Travels With My Cello Vol 2.
      • Philips.
  • Book Choice

    • Hillier's Dictionary of Plants - Hillier

  • Luxury Choice

    • An endless team of Man Fridays!

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Lady Margaret Tebbit

Broadcasts

  • Sun 31 Dec 1995 12:15
  • Fri 5 Jan 1996 09:05
  • Fri 5 Jul 1996 09:05

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