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🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern, and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast. |
0:08.6 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them |
0:13.9 | if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.5 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:21.2 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | My cast away this week is the writer Kate Moss. |
0:47.0 | She's known for her best-selling historical novels. |
0:49.7 | Her 2005 breakthrough labyrinth sold five million copies, |
0:53.6 | was translated into 38 languages, and made her, as she put it, |
0:57.9 | an overnight success at the age of 45. |
1:01.2 | On the page she's an adventurer, taking her readers on epic quests |
1:05.2 | interweaving her lifelong loves of history and landscape |
1:08.8 | with page-turning action. |
1:10.4 | She is, she says, not nearly as intrepid as her heroines, |
1:14.0 | though she is on a lifelong quest. |
1:16.0 | She's made it her mission to champion women's stories. |
1:19.4 | She was enjoying a successful publishing career when she co-founded the women's prize for fiction |
1:24.4 | and she's been the driving force behind it for almost 30 years. |
1:28.7 | She also writes forgotten women back into history, |
1:31.7 | through plays, short stories and non-fiction, |
1:34.7 | like last year's warrior queens and quiet revolutionaries, |
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