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	Podcast:		Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000
	Episode:		Iain Banks
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:33:44
	Publish Date:		1997-08-24 06:15:00
	Description:		This week's castaway is an author. In his book The Wasp Factory, the teenage protagonist tortures insects, experiments with bombs and kills a brother and a cousin. But, says Iain Banks, that was "just a phase he was going through". He tells Sue Lawley how, as a writer, he has not developed the filters that most adults do and so views the world with childlike eyes, describing what he sees. And this world, he feels, is very often a violent and terrifying one. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Mohammed's Radio by Warren Zevon Book: The Complete Monty Python Television Scripts by Monty Python Luxury: Front Seat Of A Porsche
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