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Desert Island Discs

Alan Price

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.413.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 1982

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Alan Price.

Favourite track: I Ain't Got Nobody by Louis Prima Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Piano

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

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

0:08.0

The program was originally broadcast in 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our castaway is the musician Alan Price.

0:34.0

Alan, do you collect discs?

0:36.0

I used to until I had a burglary and the things I loved most were taken and I don't think you can replace them

0:41.0

so now I don't. It's only albums that I'm given or I have by

0:46.6

happenstance did you find it very hard to select just eight discs for a desert island?

0:51.3

Yes I think so I think anyone faced with this kind of choice could make, I think, about

0:56.1

a dozen programs. What we have now is my second list because I lost the first.

0:59.7

What was your plan?

1:03.0

Is it nostalgic?

1:04.0

Yes, I think that what I said out to do was to choose records which have some sort of memory for me

1:09.0

because I think the basic principle of the program would be you'd have to have music to sustain you in this island of yours.

1:16.4

Where do we start? What's the first one? I think my earliest childhood memory is dancing in the corner to the radio and this particular record is obviously

1:26.4

one everybody knows and I quite enjoy the idea of being alone on the desert island

1:31.8

hearing the sound of housewives choice across the air. Oh, The Oh, The The theme music of Housewives Choice after all these years and I find it's called

2:39.6

in Party Mood and it was written by Jack Strachey. You were born in the

2:45.0

Northeastern Carter Dalin Allen. Yes, Fat Field, a village. Well it was a

2:48.8

village now it's a roundabout. Oh no. Now we all know that the area had a pretty rough time, but you were born during the war when

2:57.4

industry was pretty hard at work.

2:59.3

Yes, it took a war to actually bring some employment back to the northeast.

3:04.1

I was fortunate as I said because I lived out in a village and my father worked in a light industrial

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