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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Honoured Actors: Dame Eileen Atkins

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Desert Island Discs Revisited, Honoured Actors, Dame Eileen Atkins

From Schumann to the Rolling Stones. Actress Eileen Atkins makes her castaway choices.

From Schumann to the Rolling Stones. Actress Eileen Atkins shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From November 1998.

From Robert Schumann to the Rolling Stones. 

Eileen Atkins shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. 

The actress also traces her life as performer and writer.

From dancing in working men's clubs as a child to portraying Virginia Woolf on Broadway and the snobbish Celia for Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue. 

Eileen was made a Dame in 2001.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Honoured Actors

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A selection of castaways honoured for their services to acting.

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