Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1960-1969 - Stephen Spender

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Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Stephen Spender.

Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: History of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt
Luxury: Painting materials

Published on Monday, 9th July 1962.

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