Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1998 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is an illustrator. His talent for observation has made him the natural artistic

companion of many important writers including Graham Green, Doris Lessing and Robert Graves.

He's also produced his own books illustrating with sympathy and

humour what he's seen on his many travels through keynote parts of the world.

The son of a butcher from the Lake District, he won a scholarship to the Manchester College of Art,

became a communist and as a teenager fought in the Spanish Civil War.

After the Second World War, he traveled through Europe and discovered the talent

which has sustained him ever since, breaking with

communism in 1956. Now 80 he's been described as the original angry young man, but

of himself he says my ambition was to become a compassionate observer.

He is Paul Hogarth.

You're now a highly successful artist in illustrator, Paul, what what makes you angry today?

Income tax increases and that sort of thing.

But not politics anymore. Well in a way yes I having been a Marxist gives you a sort of analytical mind and I read three newspapers

a day and that sort of thing and countless weekless.

But do you still get angry?

Oh yes I get angry but I don't go out in the streets anymore.

I said that you know you wanted to be your ambition always was to be a compassionate observer but

were you not also

really creating propaganda I mean there was quite you were

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