Desert Island Discs interview (1983)

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This interview by Roy Plomley is an episode of BBC Radio's long-running programme Desert Island Discs, broadcast on 1 October 1983. Each episode covers the guest's life and the eight records they'd prefer to be marooned with. Sutcliff's interview followed the 1983 publication of her memoir Blue Remembered Hills and draws largely on it, as well as Plomley's standard questions for writers and other castaways. You can listen to the interview on the BBC site or your usual purveyor of podcasts, under Desert Island Discs Archive 1981-1985. It's about 30 minutes long. I do recommend it; she has a rather soothing voice! A transcript is below.

Note: I posted a raw transcript of this interview on LiveJournal in 2014 (part 1, part 2, part 3). This version has been corrected and lightly edited.

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