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Margaret Drabble

EPISODE · May 6, 2001 · 35 MIN

Margaret Drabble

from Desert Island Discs · host BBC Radio 4

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Margaret Drabble.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

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