Sir Laurens Van Der Post
Nov 10, 1996•39 min
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Episode description
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a writer, a traveller and an advisor to a Prince and Prime Minister.
Now nearly 90, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his early years in South Africa, his incarceration as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and his life-long campaign to save the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 17 in Dm 'Tempest' by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Golden Bough by James Frazer Luxury: Piano
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