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4 Extra Debut. From Bach to Vivaldi. Campaigning journalist and editor Harold Evans shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 2000.

From Bach to Vivaldi

Campaigning journalist and editor Harold Evans shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley.

One of the great campaigning journalists of all time, as editor of The Northern Echo in the 1960s - Harold Evans argued the the case for cervical smear tests for women.

At The Sunday Times, he highlighted the problems of the Thalidomide children.

When Rupert Murdoch bought The Times he was given the job of editor and then sacked.

After writing a book which decribed how a newspaper changes when the owner becomes editorially involved, he left for America where he lives a life of apparent glamour, with his wife, magazine editor Tina Brown.

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in April 2000.

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