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From Schumann to the Rolling Stones. Actress Eileen Atkins shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From November 1998.

From Robert Schumann to the Rolling Stones.

Eileen Atkins shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley.

The actress also traces her life as performer and writer.

From dancing in working men's clubs as a child to portraying Virginia Woolf on Broadway and the snobbish Celia for Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue.

Eileen was made a Dame in 2001.

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in November 1998.

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