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Gyles Brandreth: Former MP and writer Gyles Brandreth joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. by Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-201536 min listen
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jan 22, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth.
His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Released:
Jan 22, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode