Lord Oaksey

Published: April 11, 1993, 10:15 a.m.

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the jockey and racing journalist Lord Oaksey. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he decided to give up a career in the law to become a junior racing correspondent on the Daily Telegraph and about his time as an amateur jockey when he rode 200 winners and nearly won the Grand National in 1963.

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

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