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Professor Sir George Porter

Sue Lawley's castaway is President of the Royal Society Professor Sir George Porter.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is scientist Professor Sir George Porter. Currently President of the Royal Society, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his route from the local school - a tin shack called the Tin Lizzie, in the mining village in which he was born - to Nobel Prize winner for chemistry in 1967, and discussing the parlous state of science and science teaching in the 1990s.

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

Favourite track: The Ode To Joy (Symphony No 9) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Non-Equilibrium Thermo Dynamics by Prigogine
Luxury: Computer, paper and pen

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 16 Mar 1990 09:05
±«Óãtv Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Andrew Litton

    Bidin' My Time

    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue.
    • RPO.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major 'Emperor'

    • Concerto No 5 In E Flat Major.
    • HMV.

  • Band of HM Royal Marines

    Trafalgar

    • The Band Of Her Mjaesty's Royal Marines.
    • Philips.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No. 9 in D minor 'Choral' - Ode to Joy

      • Beethoven: Symphony No 9.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero (from The Gondoliers)

    Librettist: William Gilbert.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Parigi, O cara (from La traviata)

    • Verdi: La Traviata.
    • Eclipse.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Fight (Act 1) (from Romeo and Juliet)

    • Romeo & Juliet: Prokofiev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture (finale)

    • Brahms: Symphonies No 1-4.
    • Decca.

  • Book Choice

    • Non-Equilibrium Thermo Dynamics - Prigogine

  • Luxury Choice

    • Computer, paper and pen

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Professor Sir George Porter

Broadcasts

  • Sun 11 Mar 1990 12:15
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4
  • Fri 16 Mar 1990 09:05
    ±«Óãtv Radio 4

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