Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast, but it is the only

version we have.

It comes from the British library's radio

collection the recording didn't contain the guest's eight music choices so we

rebuilt the original show by using discs from the BBC Grammophone library.

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

Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast away as the novelist and television writer Andrea Newman.

Andrey how much does music mean to you? Important? Very important.

Ever studied it?

Yes, piano lessons as a child, exams to grade six and brought up in a musical family.

Have you ever played in public?

Yes, I actually won a cup once.

Where was there?

Oh, somewhere up north.

Then I gave up, I thought, quit while you're ahead.

Do you play discs a lot?

Yes I play if unless I'm out for the day I play music every day at home.

As background when you're doing routine tasks?

Yes and also to help me start work. Or as relaxation, all sorts of music for many

hours a day. How do you mean to help you start work? To put you in the mood? Yes it's so difficult to start work at all that I

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