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	Podcast:		Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000
	Episode:		Paul Hogarth
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:33:59
	Publish Date:		1998-01-11 06:15:00
	Description:		Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist and illustrator Paul Hogarth. He has portrayed A Year in Provence for Peter Mayle, depicted Doris Lessing's Africa and captured Majorca with Robert Graves. Born into a working-class family, his parents disapproved of his two great loves - travel and drawing. In the face of their opposition, he won a scholarship to art school where he was drawn into radical politics, becoming a communist and abandoning both art and family to fight in Spain. A popular figure with writers, he could match Brendan Behan drink for drink, and survived a 30-year working relationship with Graham Greene. Now 80, he says he still has the urge to travel, and continues to draw on his rich and varied life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Far Horizons by Glyn Boyd Harte Book: Times Atlas of World History Luxury: Solar-powered Apple Mac
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