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

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

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

Alan, do you collect discs?

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

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

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

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

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

What was your plan?

Is it nostalgic?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

industry was pretty hard at work.

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

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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