Aung San Suu Kyi marks a first for Desert Island Discs After six months of negotiations, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared as a "castaway" on Radio 4"s Desert Island Discs. The Nobel Prize winner selected eight pieces of music chosen for her by family and friends, so she would be reminded of "the people who are important to her" on the desert island imagined in the programme. The 67-year-old decided to save the track she dedicated to Aung San, her revolutionary Father, whom she called her "first love and [her] best love." The song was sung in the early days of world war II, when Aung San's commanded the Burmese National Army, and Suu Kyi said she was taught to sing it as a child. Her father was assassinated when she was two years old. Suu Kyi also spoke about how music helped her during her imprisonment (she was put under house arrest for 15 years between 1989 and 2010), as she both played and listened to music as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family. She also credited her strict upbringing by her "disciplined and courageous" mother, which aided her in prison. Suu Kyi also talked about light-hearted matters. She laughed as she recollected the only time she tried alcohol, in the toilets of the Bodleian Library. I just wanted to see what it was like! She said, "I didn't think it was very nice." Another track Suu Kyi decided to take was Green Green Grass of Home by Tom Jones. In a first for Desert Island Discs, the castaway had never heard their chosen song before. The track was chosen for Suu Kyi by her assistant, who said it reminded her of her native England when she was working as a doctor in Burma. After hearing it for the first time during the show, Suu Kyi approved, saying "there's nothing wrong with loving one's home and being sentimental about it." Suu Kyi also chose The Beatles" Here Comes The Sun, suggested for her by the Ambassador of Britain, who said it reflected the better time dawning for Burma. Regarding Burma's contemporary political situation, Suu Kyi was open about her ambitions to win the 2015 general election. "I would like to be President," she told Kirsty Young, "people are always very modest when they [discuss elections], but I think that's a lot of nonsense. If you're a politician and you're the leader of a party, then you should want government power in your hands. Suu Kyi said she would take the Buddha-Dharma to the desert island as her book of choice, along with a "luxury item" of a rose plant that would change colour every day to give her a "never-ending supply" of the flowers. The full interview with Aung San Suu Kyi can be heard on Desert Island Discs, on Radio 4 on Sunday at 11.15am.