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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: Claire Tomalin

09/04/2000

Claire Tomalin

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Sue Lawley's castaway is biographer Claire Tomalin

Sue Lawley's castaway is biographer Claire Tomalin.

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Claire Tomalin. A writer and literary editor, she is probably best known for a series of acclaimed biographies of women, including Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austin. She began working in the literary world late in life, after bringing up her family. This, and a series of personal tragedies, including the death of her husband and two of her children, has no doubt made her particularly sympathetic to the lives of literary women in the 19th century.

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

Favourite track: Sull'aria. Che Soave Zeffietto (Act 3) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Complete diaries by Samuel Pepys
Luxury: A garden

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The first Food and Farming Awards honouring producers, retailers, campaigners and caterers

The first Food and Farming Awards ceremony honouring food producers, retailers campaigners and caterers. Hosted by Derek Cooper. Awards presented by the Prince of Wales.

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