MP Stranded on Desert Island
January 13, 2009 4:47 PM
This week Vince Cable MP is the guest of Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs, the first of the series in 2009.
He said after the pre-recorded interview that "it was one of the most difficult things I have done. Kirsty was absolutely delightful but this was a far more gruelling interrogation than Paxman, Andrew Neil or John Humphreys, very personal and well outside my comfort zone as a parliamentarian specialising in economic and financial matters. Most of the discussion was about my childhood and family life which I have usually been reticent about discussing. The choice of records was terribly difficult; I had dozens of classical and popular favourites which I had to distil down to eight. I finished up with several of my son Paul and daughter-in-law Agnes singing which combined family attachment with my love of the music."
