Podcast: Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Pub date: 1985-04-27

Barbara Taylor Bradford's first novel, A Woman of Substance, which was published in 1980, quickly became a huge international success. In conversation with Roy Plomley, she recalls her childhood in Leeds, her first job as a reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post at the age of 16, becoming a Fleet Street journalist, and her eventual move to New York.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

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