Barbara Pym

From Strauss to Bithikotsis.

English novelist Barbara Pym shares her castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

Barbara’s first novels were published in the 1950s, but by the early 1960s, she fell out of favour with publishers – until her revival in 1977.

Novels include: A Glass of Blessings, Excellent Women, Less than Angels, Quartet in Autumn and An Unsuitable Attachment.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1978.

Photo credit: The Barbara Pym Society