Hello, I'm Christy 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 1987, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson.

There come a few people with a more remarkable life story than our castaway.

As a young woman, she served in the Special Operations Executive,

training secret agents for work in occupied Europe.

After the war appalled by the ruin and tragedy of it all,

she started an organisation to help the sick and disabled.

Today, there are 80 homes in 13 different countries.

The organisation is a charity requiring 8 million pounds a year to operate.

The organisation is called the Sew Rider Foundation.

Its founder and inspiration is Lady Rider of Warsaw.

Lady Rider, welcome.

People who come on this program deliberate for a long, long time,

a great problem in choosing the eight records and go through all kinds of thought processes.

You tell me that all your records had to withstand the truck test.

Could you tell me what you mean by that?

I'm very fond of music.

There are unfortunately, I never heard a little about it.

I have had a cassette player in the different tracks that I've driven over the years,

so I've played and played about 60 or 70 different cassettes.

They were given or recorded from tapes, which were given to my husband.

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