Hello I'm Kirstie 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 1993 and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is a psychiatrist brought up in a quiet ecclesiastical household in the precincts of Westminster Abbey,

he remembers his childhood as lonely, cold and quite poor.

An asthmatic himself, he decided he wanted to become a doctor and went to

Cambridge. There his life was transformed. With CP Snow as his tutor, he

discovered a new confidence and determined to pursue a career in

psychiatry then something of a Cinderella in medical practice. His first book

The Integrity of the Personality became an essential textbook on the subject.

Gradually he began to write and teach more and practice less.

Now at the age of 72 he's a full-time author. His latest work, Music and The mind, explores his lifelong fascination for music, what it is, and why it can

arouse such emotion. He is Dr. Anthony Stor. Is there a simple answer to that question, Dr Stor? I mean what is music and why does it reach

the parts of us that perhaps other art forms don't? Well I think music resonates with the body.

I mean the first thing about music is that it really

affects you physiologically and it can be measured. I mean your heart rate increases your

breathing alters and all sorts of things happen to you physically.

Listening to music makes you want to move or to dance,

but looking at a picture doesn't make you want to dance.

I mean, there's a great difference between music and the other arts

for this reason.

So do you use it on yourself as it were as a kind of calmer downer or a cherer?

Yes, I mean it's a wonderful way of relaxing at the end of the day and of restoring oneself to oneself.

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