Dorothy on TV and Radio

14th December 20127th September 2026

“My house is full of books and maps in languages that I can’t read.” Dorothy Dunnett’s 1989 Off The Page TV interview (23 mins), in which she talks about her childhood and how she became a writer, can be viewed here; and on the same page you can listen to Dorothy Dunnett speaking about her childhood and how she became a writer, on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs – first broadcast on Saturday 24 April 1982 (40 mins).