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 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On our desert island this week is the world champion of 500 C.C. Motorcycle Racing.

He's an Englishman. It's Barry Sheen.

Barry, how'd you like the idea of being a Robinson trusa?

Oh, it sounds very good to me, especially if it's nice and sunny and lots of sand and

lots of palm trees.

Do you play records a lot?

Yeah, I do.

When I have enough time, I travel a lot in Europe and in the car I've got lots of tapes and listen to the radio.

Now you have to choose eight that may have to last for years.

Yeah. What's the first one? Well, the first one's by Dionne Warwick and it's

called Do You Know the Way to San Jose. I was at school when it first came out and

it's in it LA's a great big freeway put a hundred down and buy a car and I

thought god Los Angeles you know what a fantastic place you know I'd love to go

there and since then I've been there right in actual fact one year I went eight

times and I

remember sitting on the plane thinking God and I wanted it I always dreamt about going

to Los Angeles and I was bored to tears on the plane. Well here's that old dream back again.

Do you know the way to San Jose?

I'm going back to find some piece of mind in San Jose.

LA is a great fixed freeway,

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