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 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is the novelist Barbara Pym.

Let's start straight off with you introducing your first disc.

Which one would you grab first in a sinking ship?

I'd like to start off with the Rosen

Cavalier walls. Why do you use that? Well I think I'd like something really

invigorating and sort of thing that would make me feel happy and cheerful and I think that would. The The Oh, The The Baron Oxwalls, Waltz from the second act of Richard Strouc's, De Rosen Cavalier,

the Concert Cabo Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Oignon Yoakham. Is music important in your life,

Miss Bill? Well, I wouldn't call myself a musical person, and yet I do like music certain kinds of music. Have you any

skill do you play the piano? I did learn to play the piano when I was at school but

I've long since given that up and I'm afraid I haven't any skill at all now. I might sing occasionally.

Have you ever sung in public?

I've only sung in things like the Bach Choir at Oxford and I like singing about the house or on the

island I'm sure I'd sing quite a lot of things.

Have you a wide repertoire? Quite wide because I'm very fond of so-called

pop songs or what used to be pop songs when I was younger that's why I haven't

chosen to take any with me because I feel I could

sing them myself. Your first record was to cheer you up. Is there any kind of

scheme in choosing the eight? No, no scheme really, except that I have chosen things that I know if I really like.

What's the second one? The second one is a shop- variations on Lachida rem from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

This again is rather brilliant, invigorating sort of music and the piano part is so marvelous.

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