Rosemary Sutcliff
Desert Island Discs
BBC
4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 1983
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rosemary Sutcliff began her career as a painter of miniatures and some of her work was shown at the Royal Academy. Since turning to writing, she has produced 43 books, most of which are historical novels for children. She particularly enjoys setting them in Roman Britain.
In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her career, about the difficulties caused by arthritis since she was a child and she chooses the eight records that she would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Krusty 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 are cast away as the writer of children's books, Rosemary Sutcliffe, and I'm talking to her in her house in a Sussex village. |
| 0:39.0 | Is Sussex your native country? |
| 0:42.0 | No. To my shame, I have to admit that I was born in Surrey. |
| 0:45.6 | But I count myself... Yes, but I count myself as a West country woman, as a Devonshire woman. |
| 0:51.2 | Is music important in your life? |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, I think so, but I'm not musical. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't know a thing about how it works. |
| 0:57.0 | And one of those dreadful people who know what they like. |
| 0:59.0 | Did you have any plan in choosing this eight pieces of music that may have to last a long |
| 1:05.1 | long time. Not really I chiefly just chose the eight one eight among I suppose |
| 1:11.6 | about 20 of the ones that I love best of all. |
| 1:14.0 | What's the first one? |
| 1:15.0 | Of a New World Symphony. |
| 1:17.0 | Worschach. |
| 1:18.0 | The Worschach. The Worschach. |
| 1:20.0 | Why do you choose that? Chiefly because I, just because I love it. |
| 1:22.0 | It's very exciting, I find. |
| 1:25.0 | I have a great fondness for not American films as such, any kind of American film, |
| 1:32.0 | but I love the good old-fashioned cowboy films. |
| 1:36.2 | And I think I always get the same kind of feeling from this as I do for a really good cowboy film. you. The The The The Part of the Third Movement of Vorschach's Ninth Symphony from the New World, the London |
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