麻豆约拍

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Malorie Blackman.

A prolific and multi-award winning author she has powered her way to success not just through talent but determination and perseverance. From the careers mistress who told her, "black people don't become teachers," to the 82 rejection letters she received before she was published, significant parts of her life seem to have been spent proving people wrong. A technology wizz, her first career was in computing. As a writer her books have tackled challenging themes: bullying, teenage pregnancy, racism and terrorism.

Currently Childrens' Laureate, her own formative years were spent in South London where as a little girl she went from thinking everyone was her friend to feeling, as a teenager, that the world was her enemy.

She says, "Good stories made me reassess the world and people as I thought I knew them. Great stories made me reassess myself."

DISC ONE: Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Abezizwa (Uniting Nations Together)
DISC TWO: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song
DISC THREE: Bernard Cribbins - Right Said Fred
DISC FOUR: Jennifer Larmore and Hong Hei-Kyung - L茅o Delibes鈥檚 The Flower Duet [from Lakm茅]
DISC FIVE: Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
DISC SIX: Gladys Knight - Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
DISC SEVEN: My Chemical Romance - Sing
DISC EIGHT: Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
BOOK CHOICE: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
LUXURY CHOICE: Bicycle

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in November 2013.