M M Kaye

Desert Island Discs

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 1983

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The novelist MM Kaye was born and has spent much of her life in India, and this experience has provided the background to several of her novels, including The Far Pavilions. She has also written a series of thrillers set in other places around the world to which she has been sent with her soldier husband. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her adventurous life 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: Julie's Theme by Lanning Book: Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling Luxury: Writer's kit

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kristi Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.
0:05.4	For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.4	The program was originally broadcast in 1983, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.
0:14.1	I cast away this week as a novelist, the author of, apart from other novels, The Far
0:35.1	Pavilions, MMK, MM Standing for Mary Margaret.
0:39.6	That's right.
0:40.6	But everybody calls you Molly.
0:42.2	Yes, I've never once been called anything with Molly, I'm a bit surprised.
0:45.7	I'm told that it's a shortening for Margaret.
0:49.0	Well, now we're sending you back to the tropics, but to a tropical island, all on your own.
0:54.2	Could you induce all of it?
0:55.6	Oh, very much, yes.
0:57.2	We're giving you some music to make it better.
0:59.8	Is music important to you?
1:02.2	Yes, I can't say I'm musical.
1:04.7	I wish I could have played some form of instrument, but I haven't got a good enough.
1:09.6	Yeah, I think for that, but I like listening to it.
1:12.3	Do you play discs?
1:13.3	An enormous amount, especially my ancient collection of 78s.
1:17.8	We're going to hear one at a time on this occasion.
1:20.4	Yes.
1:21.4	Or what's the first one you've chosen?
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