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Any treasures in Nick Clegg’s Desert Island Discs?

By Helen Duffett | Sun 24th October 2010 - 6:02 pm

Nick Clegg appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs this morning, and revealed his eight essential tunes, as well as a book and a luxury item with which to be marooned.

You can listen to the whole programme on iPlayer here but for the record, here’s Nick’s list:

Chopin’s Waltz in A Minor (played by Idil Biret)
Sunday Morning Coming Down (Johnny Cash)
The Cross (Prince)
Petit Pays (Cesaria Evora)
Street Spirit (Radiohead)
Life on Mars (David Bowie)
Waka Waka – the theme to the 2010 World Cup (Shakira)
Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major (played by Alfred Brendel)

Book: The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Luxury: A stash of cigarettes

As guilty pleasures go, it’s a pretty safe list; Desert Island Discs is a chance for famous people to judiciously bury treasure for the listeners to find, and from there to form their impression.

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