Podcasts Culture Desert Island Discs Sir Ian Trethowan

Sir Ian Trethowan

Published: March 4, 1990, 11:15 a.m.

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Sir Ian Trethowan. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his days as a copy boy earning 27/6d on the Daily Sketch, his early journalistic career, his transition from television presenter to manager of BBC Radio, and some of the dramas and crises which characterised his days as Director-General of the BBC. A lifelong opera lover, he'll also be choosing eight records for his island idyll.

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

Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier (Hab Mirs Gelobt) Final Act by Richard Strauss\nBook: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy\nLuxury: Champagne