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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.

Desert Island Discs: Frances Partridge

27/02/1994

Frances Partridge

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Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Frances Partridge

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Frances Partridge.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is as old as this century and is said to be the last survivor of the much written-about Bloomsbury set. She is Frances Partridge and she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her colourful life, unconventional beliefs and friendships with such influential writers and philosophers of her time as Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, EM Forster, Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes. 

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

Favourite track: Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat For Volin & Viola by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Memoirs by Duc de Saint-Simon
Luxury: Flower press

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