36 min

Raymond Seitz Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996

    • Personal Journals

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the present American Ambassador in London, Raymond Seitz. The first career diplomat ever to be appointed to the job, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he also scored a first by surviving the transition from President Bush to President Clinton earlier this year. He'll also be discussing the role of the American Ambassador in a shifting political climate and describing life in the Ambassador's residence, Winfield House in Regent's Park.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In A Major K581 Second Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Anthology of Modern Poetry
Luxury: Big box full of family albums

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the present American Ambassador in London, Raymond Seitz. The first career diplomat ever to be appointed to the job, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he also scored a first by surviving the transition from President Bush to President Clinton earlier this year. He'll also be discussing the role of the American Ambassador in a shifting political climate and describing life in the Ambassador's residence, Winfield House in Regent's Park.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In A Major K581 Second Movement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Anthology of Modern Poetry
Luxury: Big box full of family albums

36 min

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