Talk:Roy MacGregor-Hastie

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Roy MacGregor-Hastie

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Re 'Desert Island Discs'

His interview was first recorded on 15 March 2019, re-broadcast on 27 July, 1994 (after his death, in February of that year)

Of the many books he had published, three of them:

The Life and times of Nikita Khruschev (Panther, UK, 1959) (US edition: The Man from Nowhere, 1961)
The Red Barbarians: The life and Times of Mao tse-tung, 1961) (originally in hardback, T V Boardman, 1961, Kessinger, 2009); Kessinger 
Reprints, 2009 and 2010)

and Pope John XXIII: The Peasant Pope (1962) (originally in hardback, Cassell, 1961)

formed a definitive paperback trilogy, which established him as a respected biographer. His other titles included: Poems Lyrical and Empirical (leather-bound, Jose Jurado Bocanegra, Cadiz, 1954) Don't Send Me to Omsk! (A travelogue, subtitled 'Three lively years behind the Iron Curtain' (hardback, Macdonald, 1961) The Day of the Lion: The Rise and Fall of Fascist Italy,1922-1945 (hardback,Frederick Muller,1963) Signor Roy - A British Pioneer of the Co-operative Movement in Italy (hardback, Frederick Muller, 1965; softcover, SMH Books, 2016) The Throne of Peter: A history of the Papacy (hardback, Abelard-Schumann, 1966) Africa: Background for Today (first published, 1968) Nell Gwyn (hardback, Crowood Press, 1987) Picasso's Women (hardback, Lennard Publishing, 1988)

Corrections to notes at the foot of the original entry:

4.He was pre-recorded for BBC Radio's D 'Desert Island Discs' on 19 March 2019, broadcast again, after his death on 27 July 1964 9the year of his death) 5. Signor Roy: Founder of the First Agricultural Co-operative in Italy

User:Sandra MacGregor Hastie (talk) 18:18, 15 March 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonesey95 (talk • contribs) [reply]

I wish to improve, edit and add to the entry for Roy MacGregor-Hastie

In addition to my original suggested edit, I wish to offer further editing, and some expansion, as follows: In the text:

He was interviewed as a castaway on BBC Radio 4's 'Desert Island Discs' on 15 March, 2019. (See also Reference 4)

References: 4. The recording was retrieved and re-broadcast on 27 July 1994. NOTA BENE 1: This re-broadcast following his death five months previously, in February 1994

           5. (ital.) Signor Roy: Founder of the first Agricultural Co-operative in Italy.

NOTE BENE 2. If you would like me to send all my suggested edits by email, please contact me at sandramhsaer@gmail.com Sandra MacGregor Hastie (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]