Anita Roddick
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.3 • 14.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 1988
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When Anita Roddick opened the Brighton Body Shop in 1976, she struck gold with a formula to knock the mystique out of the beauty business. She talks to Sue Lawley about the effects of success on her family life and comes to terms with her island exile.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Lauren Levern and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | For rights reasons, the music is shorter than on the original broadcast. The presenter is Roy Plumlee. is |
| 0:13.0 | shorter than on the original broadcast. The presenter is Roy Plumley. |
| 0:15.0 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello 4. |
| 0:18.0 | Another time is 1215 and we come to Desert Island Disks. I'm sorry, we seem to have got our music a little wrong there. |
| 0:31.0 | Let me tell you the cast way is introduced by Sue Lawley. |
| 0:35.1 | My castaway this week is someone who in 12 years rose from being an unknown housewife to one of the |
| 0:40.7 | most successful business women in the country. |
| 0:43.0 | Her achievement is based on two things, a brilliant idea and a dynamic personality. |
| 0:49.0 | The idea is called the body shop, of which there are now more than 300 all around the world selling |
| 0:54.7 | herbal oils and natural creams to millions of women and indeed men. |
| 0:59.7 | The personality is called An Anita Rodic. |
| 1:03.0 | Anita, I was going to say that you were one of the richest business people in Britain today, |
| 1:08.0 | but you really can't bear that tag, can you? |
| 1:10.0 | You got it very fast. |
| 1:12.0 | I tell you why I can't bear it is because it's so irrelevant. |
| 1:15.2 | The only positive aspect of wealth is that you never have to worry about paying the bills. |
| 1:21.0 | But if you don't have a life which encourages leisure, you haven't been |
| 1:25.8 | trained for leisure time or leisure activities, it actually means very little. And certainly |
| 1:31.0 | in my own work, nothing has motivated me less the money. |
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