Baroness Blackstone
Sue Lawley's castaway is academic and Master of Birkbeck College Baroness Blackstone
Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Baroness Blackstone.
She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her political radicalisation at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, the difficulties of working motherhood and the different demands of her varied professional life encompassing the academic, political and public worlds.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Cosi fan Tutte Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Tennis wall, balls and racket