Marti Caine

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996

English - March 24, 1991 11:15 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
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This week's castaway in Desert Island Discs is the entertainer Marti Caine. Although her public life is one as comedienne, television presenter, star of a sit-com series, singer and glamorous pantomime performer, Marti Caine's private life is one that is very different. Her father died when she was seven, she was taken into care before she was 10, her first marriage broke up, and then, about four years ago, she was diagnosed as suffering from cancer of the lymph glands. She talks about the way in which she's coped with all these things and the way her sense of humour helped her through.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Thanksong by Dave Grusin
Book: A DIY manual
Luxury: Do-it-yourself solar-powered kit