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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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Howard Jacobson

Desert Island Discs: Howard Jacobson

06/02/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Howard Jacobson

Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young.

Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson. 

After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything."

Record: You're a Sweetheart 
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse 
Luxury: A never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers 

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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