Enoch Powell

Published: Feb. 19, 1989, 11:15 a.m.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and classical scholar. He'll be looking back on some of the incidents and issues which have made him one of the most controversial politicians in post-war Britain - among them, his so-called Rivers of Blood speech on immigration policy, and his exhortation to the electorate to vote Labour after his resignation over Britain's entry into the EEC.

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

Favourite track: The Renunciation of Siegfried (from G\xf6tterd\xe4mmerung) by Richard Wagner\nBook: Old Testament In Hebrew & Greek\nLuxury: Smoking device to smoke fish