Classic Desert Island Discs: Sue Townsend

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Another chance to listen to the writer speaking to Sue Lawley in 1991. Her most famous creation was Adrian Mole, and, in many respects, his life mirrored her own: like her hero, she came from a poor but not deprived background and always nursed a secret ambition to be a writer. She talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work and carefully selects eight records which remind her of some of the most significant events in her life. Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Luxury: Swimming pool of champagne

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0:00.0	Welcome to Desert Island Discs.
0:02.0	We're currently taking a break and so we thought it'd be a good opportunity
0:05.7	to showcase some of the best additions from our extensive treasure chest.
0:09.6	We hope you enjoy them.
0:11.0	This is The BBC.
0:15.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:19.8	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:22.8	The programme was originally broadcast in 1991
0:26.6	and the presenter was Sue Lawley.
0:31.0	Music
0:45.0	My cast away this week is a biographer.
0:47.0	She's charted the life of one man from boyhood to maturity.
0:51.0	She chose him because in many respects his life mirrors her own.
0:54.0	Like her hero, she comes from a poor but not deprived background
0:59.0	and always nursed an ambition to be a writer.
1:02.0	Unlike him, however, she has now achieved what she wanted.
1:06.0	Well, he has yet to prove himself.
1:08.0	He is Adrian Moll.
1:10.0	My cast away is his creator, Sue Townsend.
1:13.0	You and Adrian are very similar in so many ways, Sue.
1:17.0	I mean, what's he, in fact, in the beginning a male version of you at 13 and 3 quarters?
1:22.0	Well, I don't know where you found this out because I've only recently started to tell the truth about this.
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