[1] She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 9 August 1987, in conversation with Michael Parkinson.
[2] Edmonds matriculated at New Hall, Cambridge, in 1970 and graduated with a master's degree in Modern and Medieval Languages.
She is a fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University.
Her older brother is the physician Kieran Moriarty CBE, FRCP, FRCPI.
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