Hello, I'm Christy 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 1984, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Our cast away this week is the celebrated American photographer, Eisenstead.

I see, you've worked all over the world. Have you ever visited a desert island?

I visited a desert island. It was about one square mile long and 10 years ago, the Bahamas Island.

In the Bahamas? I stayed there half an hour to photograph.

Could you endure landliness, do you think? For a few weeks, a few days?

I'm very much interested in ecology. I would look for mosses like in orchids, lizards,

and so on. Look at grasses and sandcorns. I'm very much interested. I'm a microscope at home,

I'd look through the whitewood scope. How much does music mean to you in life?

Music meant very, very much in my life, because I had piano lessons in my early youth,

but I wasn't talented and gave it up because I saw that I'm not a master in music,

but I was always interested in music. Do you sing? I sing like a bird, like a raven.

Have you had a lot of records at home in you? Let's say about more than 800 records.

Was it very difficult to pick just eight to take with you to the island?

Very, very difficult. Yes. It was a big job for me. It was worse to pick eight records than

fifteen interviews. What's the first one you're going to play?

The first record I would play was Marla's second or reformation symphony.

Why do you choose it? In 1960, I did a story for Life magazine on Carnegie Hall. There was a chance

that it may be torn down. I did a story on everybody who appeared at Carnegie Hall. At that time,

I photographed Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, rehearsing, Gustav Marla's second symphony.

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