 She appeared on "Desert Island Discs" in 2004 at the age of 86 and selected a recording of Haydn's "The Creation" as the most valued of the eight records and Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" as the book.In 2008, she won the Costa Book Award for her memoir "Somewhere Towards The End", a book about old age.For the same book, she also received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009.