Bernice Rubens
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer Bernice Rubens
Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Bernice Rubens. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her childhood with musically-gifted brothers and sister, and how, despite having written 17 novels - one of them won the Booker prize, another was also shortlisted - she still sees herself as merely a successful novelist who failed to become a musician.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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