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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: Susan Hill

11/02/1996

Susan Hill

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Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist Susan Hill

Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist Susan Hill.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the country's best-known novelists. 

Author of I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting and The Woman in Black, among many other books, Susan Hill will be talking to Sue Lawley about the inspiration for her recent and highly-acclaimed sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca; about the loneliness which characterised her childhood and about the relationship between tragedy in her own life and the way she writes about it in her novels.

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

Favourite track: Tom Bowling by Benjamin Britten
Book: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Luxury: The Barnes Collection (paintings)

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

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Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics. Over 900 programmes, as broadcast from 1946 – 2004.

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A look at various democracies around the world, and the US tax system.

The varied nature of democratic governments, the legal and political powers of state government and the arcane operation of the US tax system are considered by Alistair Cooke.

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