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Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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Roy Plomley

Malcolm Bradbury

Desert Island Discs: Malcolm Bradbury

20/08/1983

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Malcolm Bradbury

Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Malcolm Bradbury

Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Malcolm Bradbury.

Malcolm Bradbury is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, but he is better known perhaps for his novels, The History Man and Eating People is Wrong, and for his academic books on literature. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: Don Giovanni Act 1 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Luxury: Word processor

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