
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Sue Lawley's guest this week is Peter Melchett. The executive director of Greenpeace, he has recently hit the headlines for his active opposition to genetically modified crops. Once a pillar of the establishment, Lord Melchett was a rising politician in Jim Callaghan's Labour government before he became interested in green issues. He did though shock his colleagues in the Northern Ireland office, when he admitted listening to the pop group The Boomtown Rats.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Special Live Recording of 'PEACE' by Eurythmics
By BBC Radio 44.6
6262 ratings
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Peter Melchett. The executive director of Greenpeace, he has recently hit the headlines for his active opposition to genetically modified crops. Once a pillar of the establishment, Lord Melchett was a rising politician in Jim Callaghan's Labour government before he became interested in green issues. He did though shock his colleagues in the Northern Ireland office, when he admitted listening to the pop group The Boomtown Rats.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Special Live Recording of 'PEACE' by Eurythmics

7,842 Listeners

1,068 Listeners

391 Listeners

5,541 Listeners

1,801 Listeners

1,770 Listeners

1,058 Listeners

1,968 Listeners

1,984 Listeners

503 Listeners

158 Listeners

76 Listeners

46 Listeners

50 Listeners

774 Listeners

53 Listeners

63 Listeners

3,216 Listeners

67 Listeners

1,594 Listeners

118 Listeners

52 Listeners

79 Listeners

539 Listeners

26 Listeners