Taki
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996
English - November 28, 1993 11:15 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture comedy interview news politics business entrepreneurship culture health books leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is proud to describe himself as a playboy - he is Taki Theodoracopulos - the millionaire journalist who pens the Spectator's High Life column every week. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his boyhood in Greece, where his father was a self-made shipping magnate, his subsequent life of tennis and nightclubs with the international jet-set and the abrupt end to this existence when he spent two months in Pentonville Prison after being found in possession of cocaine at Heathrow Airport.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Lilli Marlene by German Soldiers
Book: Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Luxury: Boxing punchbag