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Always an outsider, Rumer Godden seems to have gone against all the mores of her time; from opening a dancing school in Calcutta to living alone with her children in Kashmir. The writer describes how her rich life in India (under the Raj) and in Britain has influenced her novels.

She says she can't remember a time when she didn't write. Rumer Godden died in 1998 at the age of 90, having published dozens of novels for adults and children, alongside non fiction and verse.

DISC ONE: Dominic Muldowney - Peacock Spring Music
DISC TWO: Vladimir Horowitz - Robert Schumann's Tr盲umerei (from Scenes from Childhood)
DISC THREE: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Stormy Weather
DISC FOUR: : Los Frontierizos Orchestra with The Choir Of The Bassilica - Ariel Ram铆rez's Misa Criolla
DISC FIVE: Philadelphia Orchestra - Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
DISC SIX: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Chorus with The Philharmonia Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Porgi, amor (from The Marriage of Figaro)
DISC SEVEN: The Ballet Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Levine - Fr茅d茅ric Chopin's Les Sylphides
DISC EIGHT: Claudio Arrau - Franz Liszt's B茅n茅diction de Dieu dans la solitude

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Vladimir Horowitz - Robert Schumann's Tr盲umerei (from Scenes from Childhood)
BOOK CHOICE: The Atlantic book of British and American Poetry - Edith Sitwell
LUXURY CHOICE: A widow's cruse filled with whisky

Producer Angie Nehring

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in October 1996.