Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 
1.
Max Adrian
Candide - The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Artist: Barbara Cook
Malcolm Bradbury
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 20 Aug 1983
Academic, Novelist
Malcolm Bradbury is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, but he is better known perhaps for his novels, The History Man and Eating People is Wrong, and for his academic books on literature. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
5.
Castaway's favourite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni Act 1
Soloist: Wachter, Sciutti Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
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