Salman Rushdie - a podcast by BBC Radio 4
from 1988-09-18T11:15
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This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs is one of the most prominent novelists in the English language today. Author of the prize-winning novel Midnight's Children and weaver of magic yarns which embody myth, memory and politics, he is the Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the forces which have influenced his life and work.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Call Of The Valley by Shivkumar Sharma
Book: Arabian Nights (1000 and One Nights)
Luxury: Unlisted radio telephone
Further episodes of Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991
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