DESERT ISLAND DISCS: CLASSIC DESERT ISLAND DISCS - BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH (320kbs-m4a/79mb/34mins)
BBC Radio 4 podcast: 28th April 2024
Sue Lawley talks to the poet Benjamin Zephaniah in a programme first broadcast in 1997. Benjamin Zephaniah died in January 2024 at the age of 65.
As well as talking about his work as a performance poet often working in prisons or schools, Benjamin recalls a time when he was illiterate. He also remembers Nelson Mandela's request to meet him at seven o'clock in the morning to brief him on Margaret Thatcher.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Book: Poetical Works of Shelley by Percy Shelley
Luxury: Law of the land (so he could break it)
Sinéad O'Connor - Fire On Babylon [Ensign]
George Formby - Little Ukulele [Grosvenor]
Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man [Columbia]
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey [Island]
Mikey Smith - Mi Cyaan Believe It [Island]
Bally Sagoo - Chura Liya [Columbia]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five [Elite]
Steel Pulse - Klu Klux Klan [Mango]
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