Hello I'm Krestey 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 1988 and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My very first castaway is a scholar, a lawyer and a politician. His scholarship is great. He was once said to be

the cleverest boy ever to go to Eton. His legal knowledge, considerable. He was the longest

serving Lord Chancellor this century

and his politics rumbustious

he's thrilled the faithful at many a Tory party conference

with his oratory and his antics

he is of course quinton McGarryl Hogg,

QC Lord Halesham of St Marylebun. Lord Halesham, it's going to be hot but

beautiful, lonely but peaceful. Now do you look forward with relish or with horror

to taking up residents on this desert island? I would have looked forward to the Greek deal

more relish when I was 50 and more able to look after myself,

but I think I can manage now, you know, after a fashion.

Do you think then that you could endure the loneliness?

Oh, I can enjoy the loneliness, yes.

Although I would miss my wife.

What will you have been happiest to have got away from?

I think perhaps the vy of public life and private life, the mourning newspapers and

the nonsense about rouse and furies and bands and crackdowns and all the jargon of

modern urban life.

Well now you have an old-fashioned gramophone with a handle and a horn

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