Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991 - Kingsley Amis

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Kingsley Amis won the 1986 Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his childhood in South London, the success of his first published novel Lucky Jim, which he wrote when a lecturer at Swansea University, and his subsequent career as a don at Cambridge and then as a full-time novelist.

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

Favourite track: Runnin' Wild by Wild Bill Davison
Book: Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Scotch whiskey

Published on Sunday, 9th November 1986.

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