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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the writer Sybille Bedford. Born the daughter of a German baron in 1911, her childhood brought her into contact with the great literary figures of her age - Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf and T S Eliot. She has received critical acclaim as a novelist, journalist and law reporter, covering the Lady Chatterley trial, the Auschwitz trial and the trial of Jack Ruby.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Slow Movement of 'Double' Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the writer Sybille Bedford. Born the daughter of a German baron in 1911, her childhood brought her into contact with the great literary figures of her age - Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf and T S Eliot. She has received critical acclaim as a novelist, journalist and law reporter, covering the Lady Chatterley trial, the Auschwitz trial and the trial of Jack Ruby.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Slow Movement of 'Double' Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

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