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Kate Mosse OBE is a British novelist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including The Joubert Family Chronicles and the best-selling Languedoc Trilogy. She has also written four works of non-fiction including her memoir about caring, An Extra Pair of Hands. In 1996 she co-founded the Women\\u2019s Prize for Fiction.

Born in Chichester, she studied English at Oxford University and had a very successful career in publishing before writing her first book about pregnancy. Her novel, Labyrinth, published in 1995 and set in Carcasonne, became an international bestseller which enabled her to give up her publishing job and write full time.

Kate lives in Chichester with her husband, Greg Mosse, and her mother-in-law, Grannie Rosie. She is a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, a Patron of the Chichester Festival for Music, Dance and Speech, and President of the Festival of Chichester.

She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to literature and women.

DISC ONE: Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens \\nDISC TWO: These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra \\nDISC THREE: Station to Station - David Bowie \\nDISC FOUR: Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Style Council \\nDISC FIVE: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor\\nDISC SIX: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83. Composed by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Martha Argerich and London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado\\nDISC SEVEN: Dancing Queen - Abba \\nDISC EIGHT: La chanson des vieux amants - Jacques Brel \\n \\nBOOK CHOICE: Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot\\nLUXURY ITEM: A jukebox\\nCASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83, composed by Maurice Ravel and performed by Martha Argerich and London Symphony Orchestra

Presenter: Lauren Laverne\\nProducer: Sarah Taylor