Desert Island Discs - Howard Jacobson
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Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson.
After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything."
Record: You're a Sweetheart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: A never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 9:00AM Fri, 11 Feb 2011
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11:15AM Sun, 6 Feb 2011
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- Duration 45 minutes
