Ian McMillan

Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2011 by BBC

Nov 7, 201037:20Society & Culture

Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. Thirty years ago he was working in a factory gluing together tennis ball halves. Then he got a grant, chucked in his job and devoted himself to writing an...

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