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The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Bernice Rubens. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood with musically-gifted brothers and sister, and how, despite having written 17 novels - one of them won the Booker prize, another was also shortlisted - she still sees herself as merely a successful novelist who failed to become a musician. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: String Quintet C Major Second Movement by Franz Schubert Book: Poems For Joy & Sermons For Solace by John Donne Luxury: Daughter's painting
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- TrackArtist
- 1.Cello Concerto in B minor - 2nd movementCello Concerto in B minor - 2nd movementAntonÃn Dvořák
- 2.Piano Sonata in B minorPiano Sonata in B minorFranz Liszt
- 3.Minuet No 1 in G MajorMinuet No 1 in G MajorIgnacy Jan Paderewski