For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Children’s author and historical novelist Rosemary Sutcliff chose ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Vaughan Williams as her seventh record on Desert Island Discs in 1983. (Played by The Boyd Kneale Orchestra with Frederick Grinker).
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
I wonder what she’d have made of Viking Metal, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o
It makes a very good sound track to some of her books, but I have a feeling she’d turn the radio off as quickly as she could reach it.
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