Vernon Scannell's guest appearances

Vernon Scannell

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

Seamus Heaney

Richard Branson

William Davis

Salman Rushdie

Stephen Fry

Ruth Westheimer

Kenneth Williams

Joanna Lumley

Tony Bennett

David Blunkett

Jeremy Irons

Katharine Hamnett

Andrew Davis

Ben Kingsley

Germaine Greer

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Vernon Scannell's colourful career has included prize-fighting, a controversial spell in the Army, confinement to a mental institution for insisting on becoming a writer and a subsequent award of a civil list pension for his services to literature. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he looks back on these aspects of his life and also selects the eight records to take to the mythical island.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian BachBook: Compiled anthology of English poetryLuxury: Enormous amount of A4 paper

Vernon Scannell's colourful career has included prize-fighting, a controversial spell in the Army, confinement to a mental institution for insisting on becoming a writer and a subsequent award of a civil list pension for his services to literature. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he looks back on these aspects of his life and also selects the eight records to take to the mythical island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Compiled anthology of English poetry Luxury: Enormous amount of A4 paper