Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 - Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally, the Australian writer, won the Booker Prize last year with Schindler's Ark after being on the shortlist twice. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his writing, about his years in a Catholic seminary and as a teacher, and he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: The Four Seasons - Winter by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse by Philip Larkin
Luxury: Collection of Times crosswords

Published on Saturday, 26th November 1983.

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