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Writer Howard Jacobson is castaway by Kirsty Young.

After many years of swiping at literary prizes, in October 2010 Howard 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."

DISC ONE: Dame Janet Baker with the Bath Festival Orchestra, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin - Bach's Cantata No.82, 鈥淪chlummert ein, ihr matten Augen鈥�
DISC TWO: Mario Lanza - Salvatore Cardillo & Ricardo Cordiferro's Core 'ngrato
DISC FOUR: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Stars Fell on Alabama
DISC FIVE: Yossele Rosenblatt - Misratze B'Rachamim
DISC SIX: Graziella Sciutti & Eberhard Wachter with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart鈥檚 L脿 ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
DISC SEVEN: Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud & Pablo Casals - Franz Schubert鈥檚 Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major
DISC EIGHT: Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Band - You're a Sweetheart

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Band - You're a Sweetheart
BOOK CHOICE: The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks
LUXURY CHOICE: Never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers

Producer: Leanne Buckle

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in February 2011.