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Hanif Kureishi

Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his enormously successful screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette, his novel - televised by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ - The Buddha of Suburbia and his love of pop music which he plays at full volume whilst writing.

He'll also be discussing the racial abuse which dominated his childhood in Bromley, where, as the son of an Indian father and an English mother, and the only Asian boy in his school, he was invited to instigate racial bullying, as often as finding himself to be its target.

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

Favourite track: In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Book: Complete Works by Sigmund Freud
Luxury: Marijuana seeds

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 26 Apr 1996 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • The Beatles

    I Am The Walrus

    • Hello Goodbye.
    • Parlophone.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Miles Davis

      In A Silent Way

      • Miles Davies In A Silent Way.
      • CBS.

  • Sex Pistols

    Anarchy in the UK

    • Flogging A Dead Horse.
    • Virgin.

  • Bob Dylan

    Positively 4th Street

    • Bob Dylan Masterpieces.
    • CBS.

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

    • In The Air Tonight - Virgin's Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.

  • David Bowie

    Buddha of Suburbia

    • The Buddha Of Suburbia.
    • Arista.

  • Oasis

    (It's Good) To Be Free

    • Whatever.
    • Creation Records.

  • Tricky

    Hell Is Round The Corner

    • Maxinque.
    • Island.

  • Book Choice

    • Complete Works - Sigmund Freud

  • Luxury Choice

    • Marijuana seeds

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Hanif Kureishi

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Apr 1996 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 26 Apr 1996 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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