Desert Island Discs - Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy, is interviewed by Kirsty Young and chooses his eight records for Desert Island Discs.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the author Vikram Seth.
His novel A Suitable Boy was nearly a decade in the writing, but it was a huge and immediate hit and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He is now working on a follow-up novel called A Suitable Girl. He's due to finish work on it in 2013 - 20 years after the original work was published. The pace of work, he admits, is slow: "The sound of deadlines pushing past is one of the sounds that authors are most familiar with - it's very much in the gestational period."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 9:00AM Fri, 27 Jan 2012
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11:15AM Sun, 22 Jan 2012
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- Duration 45 minutes
