Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991 - Stan Barstow

Stan Barstow made his name as a novelist in 1960 with A Kind of Loving. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about his upbringing in Yorkshire, where his father was a miner, his first job in a drawing office and how he became a writer.

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

Favourite track: Symphony No 2 in E Flat, 1st Movement by Edward Elgar
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Paper and pens

Published on Sunday, 24th August 1986.

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