Podcasts Culture Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996 Sir Roy Calne

Sir Roy Calne

Published: Feb. 25, 1996, 11:15 a.m.

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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is a surgeon and a painter.

Sir Roy Calne - Professor of Surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge - will be talking to Sue Lawley about his early conviction that transplant surgery was a viable way of treating kidney and liver disease, about his struggles to have his ideas accepted and about the paintings he has done of his patients - many of which have been the subject of several public exhibitions.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 9 From The New World (Opus 95) by Antonin Dvo\\u0159\\xe1k\\nBook: Global Biodiversity by Brian Groombridge\\nLuxury: Paints and canvas

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