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	Podcast:		Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000
	Episode:		Rita Dove
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:36:15
	Publish Date:		1999-08-22 05:15:00
	Description:		Sue Lawley's guest this week is the poet Rita Dove. The first African-American to become the US Poet Laureate, Rita Dove was brought up to believe that education was the key to the Great American Dream. As a child she would lose herself in the local library, but she learned the art of story-telling from her aunts as they swapped tales about the Great Depression, civil rights, and, of course, motherhood. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett Book: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Luxury: Ballroom and robotic dance instructor
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