Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island Discs archive.

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast, but it is the only version we have.

It comes from the British Library's radio collection.

The recording didn't contain the guest's eight music choices, so we rebuilt the original

show by using discs from the BBC Gramophone library.. For rights reasons we've had to shorten the

music. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs

website. The program was originally broadcast in 1979.

And the presenter was Roy Plumley. on our desert Island this week is the folk singer and actor, Burle Ives.

Are you play records at home?

No, I used to play records a lot. I used to be quite a fan, but I'm not, I don't play many records now for the reason that there's too much music.

Every place you go there, there's music playing and I go home and the music is playing and I make them stop it.

Because there is other sounds that I would rather hear.

I'd rather hear the birds sing and I would rather hear the wind blowing through the trees than to hear most music.

If I could choose my music, then that would be different.

Did you have a hard job choosing this miserable allowance of eight records for your isolation?

Not really very difficult because I went back to the time when I played records for my own pleasure when I had time to sit down and give it the kind of attention that music deserves.

What's the first one?

Well, I'm crazy about the Dennis Brain Mozart concerto.

Number four, that's that famous one.

Yes, yes.

Well, I like it all.

I like him. I think that he takes that instrument and he makes it sing and I think he's the greatest player of that horn I ever heard. the The Oh, The The The Rondo from the Mozart Fourth Horn concerto in E-flat Major, Dennis Brane with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Carreyer.

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