Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Sue Lawley's guest this week is the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Born in Germany, she came to England as a refugee and moved to India as a young bride where she wrote her first film screenplay in 1961 - in eight days. Since then, she has written over 30 screenplays, all bar one in collaboration with the Merchant-Ivory partnership, including Heat and Dust, A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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