Charlotte Lamb

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 1983

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Charlotte Lamb first started to write in 1970 after doing a series of different jobs, including working in a bank and for the BBC. Since then, she has written over 60 romantic novels, some of them under different names, and she has become one of the most popular novelists of that genre.

In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her work and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.

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

Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 In G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our castaway is the writer of romantic fiction, Charlotte Lamb.
0:35.0	How well could you adjust yourself to loneliness, Charlotte?
0:39.0	I think very well indeed, because I'm always alone during the day writing so loneliness is something that I'm quite
0:45.6	accustomed to and in fact I think I like being lonely. And you could tell yourself stories.
0:50.5	I could tell myself stories yes and also I'd be rather interested to find out how I
0:55.2	coped with being entirely on my own I think it would be as Barry said great
1:00.0	adventure how much does music mean to you a deal. I listen to a great deal of music. Do you play an instrument yourself?
1:07.0	No, I don't. No, I don't at all. Did you find it very difficult to decide on just eight records you have with you? very difficult. Did you have a plan? Yes, I chose
1:15.7	music I loved for a long time and could live with just in case nobody came to pick me out.
1:21.6	Music that stood the test of time.
1:24.0	Time, yes, absolutely.
1:26.0	The first one is Chancant-de-Mattin by El-Ga,
1:29.0	and the reason I chose it was because it was the first piece of music I remember hearing on the BBC.
1:35.4	They used it as the theme music for a serialization of David Copperfield.
1:40.9	And it seemed to me to evoke everything I feel about Dickens who then was my favorite writer
1:46.6	everything I feel about England and it also gives one a marvelous feeling of
1:51.6	the permanent feeling of the vanished world that some people have.
1:56.3	You said then, you heard this when you're a little girl, did you?
1:58.8	I was about eight and nine, yes, and I was very keen on Dickens. I still am, but he's no longer my favorite writer.
2:05.6	He's one of my favorite writers and I think this music is perfect for David Copperfield.
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