大象传媒

Writer, Arundhati Roy is castaway by Kirsty Young.

Arundhati won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God Of Small Things, which has been translated into 40 languages and became the best-selling book ever by a non-expatriate Indian. After a gap of 20 years, her second novel was published in 2017.

Brought up in Kerala, her Syrian Christian mother left her marriage when her children were young and set up a small school where Arundhati and her brother were educated. Raised to be independent, aged 16, Arundhati left home to study architecture in Delhi before being introduced to the film world by her second husband.

Since the publication of The God of Small Things in 1997, she has continued to write non-fiction, using her influence her to focus on tackling injustice.

She has campaigned against India's nuclear programme, dam-building, globalisation, religious intolerance and the inequality of Indian society.

DISC ONE: The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
DISC TWO: Martin Taylor鈥檚 Spirit of Django - Hi Lily, Hi Lo
DISC THREE: Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River
DISC FOUR: The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
DISC FIVE: Janis Joplin - Summertime
DISC SIX: Bhungar Khan - Jhatke Aaayo Chomasho
DISC SEVEN: Bhimsen Joshi - Raga Chhaya-Chhaya Malhar
DISC EIGHT: Leonard Cohen - Winter Lady

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bhimsen Joshi - Raga Chhaya-Chhaya Malhar
BOOK CHOICE: Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
LUXURY CHOICE: A Ratol Mango Tree

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in March 2017.