Noel Streatfeild on Desert Island Discs

[beatricequimby]

I thought some of the posters on the NS thread might enjoy this. Its from 1976 - a 30 min interview. If you Google her name and Desert Island Discs it comes up straight away.

I enjoyed it, she seems an interesting mixture of rebellious (for her time) and rather Establishment.

There are quite a lot of other interviews with children's authors on DIDs, if anyone is interested - Rumer Godden, Shirley Hughes, Jessica Mitford (I know she wasn't a children's author but I loved her books as a teenager).

That's brilliant, think you so much. I love Rumer Godden, adult as well as child's fiction. And Shirley Hughes too. Mitford sounds interesting.

oh thanks for that. I'm always trawling through the DID archives to find interesting people so will look for that one.

More recent ones I've enjoyed are John Prescott, Doreen Lawrence, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary Portas, Martina Navratilova, Tidjane Thiam (first black CEO of Prudential and probably anywhere in the FTSE) - no writers but all good ones. Sometimes DID surprises because the guest is not right and it doesn't go anywhere (George Michael was an odd one I thought) but these were all interesting on some level. Realise this is the wrong topic for this but got on a roll

Quangle - that's an interesting list, I will give some of them a go.

Thanks OP. I love NS and will definitely listen. Have you read Saplings, one of her books for adults? It is very good

Grace - Yes Saplings is my favourite of her adult ones