Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 Gramophone 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 1978.

And the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our castaway this week is a journalist. She runs the Problems Page in a big circulation

women's magazine and runs a Problems Phone in for a radio station. It's Anna Rayburn. Anna, how big a part does music play in your life?

Oh, very big, not in a serious sense that I can quote you chapter and verse on a whole range of classical composers or anything,

but because I was brought up with people who sing and I sing, and I sing, and I find that if it's not around I miss it. Do you pay an instrument?

No, I attempted to play the ukulele, but I was asked to desist and I haven't done things since then.

Same thing happened to me with the ukulele.

Did you have a plan in choosing your eight records?

No, actually what happened was that I was stuck at the house that I'm trying to buy, waiting for a tradesman to come and do an estimate of some description and he was late and I was getting more and more nervous and more and more depressed.

I thought now on the back of an envelope. Eight records for Desert Island,

this is as nearer to a Desert Island as I shall ever be. Right, what's the first

title on the back of the envelope? Urbanoni, the organ music of the end of the end of the end of the only which I think is

enormously evocative very sad very beautiful music You're not going to be here. You're not going to be. The opening of albinone is Adagio in G minor for strings and organ, arrangement by Raimo Diadzacotto and it was played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Carrier.

Anna you're from Yorkshire aren't you?

Yes.

And both your parents were teachers. Yes. And both your parents were teachers.

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