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Desert Island Discs Revisited: Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym

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From Strauss to Bithikotsis. Novelist Barbara Pym shares her castaway choices

From Strauss to Bithikotsis. Novelist Barbara Pym shares her castaway choices with Roy Plomley. From July 1978.

From Strauss to Bithikotsis. 

English novelist Barbara Pym shares her castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

Barbara’s first novels were published in the 1950s, but by the early 1960s, she fell out of favour with publishers – until her revival in 1977.

Novels include: A Glass of Blessings, Excellent Women, Less than Angels, Quartet in Autumn and An Unsuitable Attachment.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1978.

Photo credit: The Barbara Pym Society

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