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Frances Wood

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2011 by BBC

Dec 5, 201035:56Society & Culture

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances Wood. As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she is the gatekeeper to some of the rarest printed texts in the world. Her life has been immerse...

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Frances Wood is an episode from Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2011 by BBC. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances Wood. As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she is the gatekeeper to some of the r...

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Published Dec 5, 2010, 35:56 long, audio available.