Lord Oaksey

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the jockey and racing journalist Lord Oaksey. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he decided to give up a career in the law to become a junior racing correspondent on the Daily Telegraph and about his time as an amateur jockey when he rode 200 winners and nearly won the Grand National in 1963.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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