Fran Landesman

She has written songs for her friends Barbra Streisand and Bette Davis, and admires Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn. This week, the poet and lyricist Fran Landesman chooses her eight records. Although now in her 60s, retired to her bed and celibate, she is still writing lyrics and performing her poetry and has just published a new collection of her work. From poor little rich girl to a life of bohemian excess, she looks back at her experiences - free love, free speech and mind-expanding drugs - on Desert Island Discs. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Down by Nicki Leighton Thomas Book: Rebel Without Applause and Jay Walking by Jay Landesman Luxury: Cannabis seeds

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Fran Landesman is an episode from Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996 by BBC.

This episode is 32:27 long.

This episode was published on Sep 22, 1996.

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