Hello I'm Krestey 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

1988 and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a man who enjoys the good things of life, whether he's polishing his

vintage car, jogging through Hyde Park, or preparing something wonderful in the

kitchen, he is a perfectionist. His business is food, food that is not only delicious but healthy as well.

His dedication to it has taken him from a modest background in a Swiss village to being

master of the kitchens in one of London's greatest hotels.

He is now recognised as one of the great chefs of the world.

He is Anton Mosiman.

Monsieur Mosiman, do you ever feel you just can't face cooking another meal?

Not at all. I'm looking forward for the next one all the time. I just love it and enjoy every minute of it.

So on our desert island, is this going to be a great challenge or a great joy to you to have all these raw materials,

all these plants and wild animals we hope to choose from to put in your pot.

I can't wait for it.

It must be wonderful, honestly.

One of the greatest challenges in life is to go anywhere in the world, go to the markets,

supermarkets, whatever, and just buy local ingredients and create something with it. So I can't wait to get there.

Let's have your first record.

I like very much Rosine's Willem Tell,

conducted by Herbert from Carayana.

Just a little story.

So whenever Herbert from Carayana came to Lucerne every summer for the musical week,

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