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Margaret Drabble
4 Extra Debut. From Alan Price to Jean Sibelius. Writer Margaret Drabble makes her castaway choices. With Sue Lawley. From 2001.
From Alan Price to Jean Sibelius. Novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble makes her castaway choices. With Sue Lawley.
Favourite track: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
Luxury: Painting by Maurice Cockerill - Ariadne's Thread
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
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