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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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Vikram Seth

Desert Island Discs: Vikram Seth

22/01/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Vikram Seth

Writer Vikram Seth is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy, is interviewed by Kirsty Young and chooses his eight records for Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth. 

His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period." 

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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