Long years ago, sometimes it seems many lives ago, I was at Oxford listening to the radio programme Desert Island Discs with my young son Alexander. It was a well-known programme (for all I know it still continues) on which famous people from all walks of life were invited to talk about the eight discs, the one book beside the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, and the one luxury item they would wish to have with them were they to be marooned on a desert island.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021
Myanmar · b. 1945
Politics and public life
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Burmese politician who co-founded the National League for Democracy and spent a total of fifteen years under house arrest. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while detained; delivered the lecture in Oslo in 2012. Served as State Counsellor from 2016 until the 2021 military coup removed her from office again; international human-rights monitors documented abuses against the Rohingya during her tenure, which drew sustained criticism.
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Recorded · On the billboard
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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