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Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Manage episode 165046973 series 1301379
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he was an early 'fast-track' pupil - going to Edinburgh University at 16 - their youngest student for 50 years, about the reasons behind his standing aside in favour of Tony Blair in the contest for the Labour leadership, and about his childhood as one of three sons of a Scottish minister.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Suite No. 3 in D major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Story of Art by Sir Ernst Gombrich Luxury: Tennis ball machine and racket
246 episodes
Manage episode 165046973 series 1301379
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he was an early 'fast-track' pupil - going to Edinburgh University at 16 - their youngest student for 50 years, about the reasons behind his standing aside in favour of Tony Blair in the contest for the Labour leadership, and about his childhood as one of three sons of a Scottish minister.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Suite No. 3 in D major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Story of Art by Sir Ernst Gombrich Luxury: Tennis ball machine and racket
246 episodes
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