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.

Elements of this program may offend or upset some listeners.

The program was originally broadcast in 1993 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is a playboy, fit, good-looking and enormously rich, he has enjoyed

a life of almost uninterrupted pleasure. His father was a Greek shipping magnate who built

up a fortune.

His son determined to make women the greatest motivation, he said in his life.

Apparently incapable of fidelity he has twice been married.

But his easygoing existence was disrupted in the mid-80s when he was

sent to prison for four months after being found in possession of cocaine at Heathrow Airport.

He's also a journalist writing political columns for American magazines.

In this country he's most famous for his high life column in The Spectator,

where each week the antics of the International jet set are amusingly observed.

He is Taki Theodor Acropolis.

So mouthful of a name, Theodora.

It means, ironically enough gift from God.

There's some people who dispute that, but anyway.

The jet set I mentioned there.

It sounds such an old-fashioned phrase these days.

Does it still exist?

It does, but in a completely different way the

jets that sort of became famous because of Fellini, Delchevita, the first jets

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