Lord Weidenfeld's guest appearances

Lord Weidenfeld

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

Last Word

Culture Wars with Jonathon Van Maren

Baroness Trumpington

Harper Lee

Bamber Gascoigne

Michel Roux

Victoria Wood

Barry Cryer

Hal Prince

Barbara Windsor

Crispin Tickell

John Peel

Leslie Grantham

Geoffrey Howe

Jacques Loussier

Alan Parker

Shirley Williams

OwlTail

Glenn Frey

Jeanne Cordova

Haskell Wexler

Gilbert Kaplan

Matthew Bannister onGlenn Frey - singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Eagles - who sold millions of albums in the 1970s.Lord Weidenfeld, the influential publisher, party giver and networker - and, in later life, rescuer of Christians from Syria and Iraq. The writer and activist Jeanne Cordova - a former nun who campaigned for lesbian rights.Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer who won an Oscar for the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?".And Gilbert Kaplan, the multi millionaire businessman who conducted Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony more than a hundred times.

Matthew Bannister on Glenn Frey - singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Eagles - who sold millions of albums in the 1970s. Lord Weidenfeld, the influential publisher, party giver and networker - and, in later life, rescuer of Christians from Syria and Iraq. The writer and activist Jeanne Cordova - a former nun who campaigned for lesbian rights. Haskell Wexler, the cinematographer who won an Oscar for the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?". And Gilbert Kaplan, the multi millionaire businessman who conducted Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony more than a hundred times.

Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.

Steve Maman

Jonathon Van Maren speaks with with Lord George Weidenfeld of the British House of Lords, and Steve Maman of the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq. Lord Weidenfeld, a Holocaust survivor, shares how a conversation with Pope John Paul II and a long-standing debt of gratitude to Christians spurred him to act. Steve Maman, often called "the Jewish Schindler," talks about what his negotiators are doing on the ground in Iraq to rescue children from ISIS.

Rescuing Christian children from ISIS with Lord Weidenfeld & Steve Maman

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a publisher; a man who came to this country 52 years ago with a 16/6d postal order in his pocket and very poor English. Over half a century later, he is a cultured and successful businessman, renowned for his glittering parties and wide circle of eminent friends, many of whom write books for him. He is Lord Weidenfeld, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his rise from being an impoverished immigrant, to becoming one of Britain's leading intellectual and social figures.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Don Giovanni - The Quintet by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartBook: The Pickwick Papers by Charles DickensLuxury: Armchair with coffee machine &amp; rescue signal

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a publisher; a man who came to this country 52 years ago with a 16/6d postal order in his pocket and very poor English. Over half a century later, he is a cultured and successful businessman, renowned for his glittering parties and wide circle of eminent friends, many of whom write books for him. He is Lord Weidenfeld, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his rise from being an impoverished immigrant, to becoming one of Britain's leading intellectual and social figures. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Don Giovanni - The Quintet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Luxury: Armchair with coffee machine &amp; rescue signal