Hello, I'm Krusty Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1978, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our cast away this week is the humorous writer Alan Corrin, the new editor of Punch.

Alan, did you find this a hard job to choose just eight records that may have to last a long, long time?

Enormously difficult, starting off with the idea that I was going to be in one spot for this amount

of time and be self-sufficient, which I can't be.

There is no way in which I'm self-sufficient, certainly not intellectually or musically.

I found it extraordinarily difficult to start with the idea that I had eight records and that was it.

How did you say about it? Are you looking for nostalgia or great performances or great music or what?

Well I thought the best thing to do will be to choose records which expanded from the music

they were so that I could think about them.

And if I chose records that had particular associations for me, then the two or three minutes they played

would only be a sort of token for the hour in which I could think about them every night when

the sun was going down over the coconuts.

What's the first one you chose? Well the first one is a bizarre

record. It's by Emmett Miller and his Georgia crackers and it's lovesick Blues. I've

never heard of Mr Miller. He was a failed vaudeville comedian.

Oh Lord I got so used to her son how

that I know the hottest

pack of Papa now it's awful when you're no-sum.

You got him the fig balloon.

Oh no. Emmett Miller and his Georgia Crackers lovesick Blues. You said that you didn't fancy your chances as a castaway somehow. You weren't going to be very efficient.

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