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Isabel Allende

Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist Isabel Allende.

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist Isabel Allende. One of the most widely-read Latin American writers, she'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her native Chile, from where she is now voluntarily exiled, and about her childhood home where she lived with her clairvoyant grandmother and on which she based her first book The House of the Spirits.

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

Favourite track: Carmina Burana Ecce Gratum by Carl Orff
Book: All correspondence between her and her mother
Luxury: Paper and pencils

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 17 Sep 1993 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    El Condor Pasa

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • CBS.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera) (from Carmen)

    • Carmen.
    • EMI.

  • Windham Hill

    Greensleeves

    • A Winter's Solstice.
    • Windham Hill Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C minor - 2nd movement

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons - Spring

    • Le Quattro Stagioni.
    • Philips.

  • Elaine Paige

    Memory

    • Cats.
    • Polydor.

  • ABBA

    The Winner Takes It All

    • In Touch.
    • Solitaire Collection.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Carl Orff

      Ecce gratium (from Carmina Burana)

      • Carmina Burana.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Book Choice

    • All correspondence between her and her mother

  • Luxury Choice

    • Paper and pencils

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Isabel Allende

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 Sep 1993 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 17 Sep 1993 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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