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Desert Island Discs

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.

Desert Island Discs: Rosemary Sutcliff

01/10/1983

Rosemary Sutcliff

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosemary Sutcliff

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosemary Sutcliff.

Rosemary Sutcliff began her career as a painter of miniatures and some of her work was shown at the Royal Academy. Since turning to writing, she has produced 43 books, most of which are historical novels for children. She particularly enjoys setting them in Roman Britain. 

In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her career, about the difficulties caused by arthritis since she was a child and she chooses the eight records that she would take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Luxury: Flowers delivered daily by bottle

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Andrei Gromyko and the United Nations

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The tensions within the UN following the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight 007.

The end of a boycott against Aeroflot after the shooting down of Korean flight 007, the absence of Andrei Gromyko at the UN, and the plan to install US missiles in West Germany.

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