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

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. All right as a dozen island this week is the poet and writer of children's books Charles

Causeley. Charles you're a Cornishman what part of Cornwell? My home is in

lanson which is on the eastern bit of Cornwall, the bit that are butts on Devon.

We are separated from Devonshire and England by the River Tamar.

Yes.

Right on the front here.

Right on the front here. Right on the front here.

As well as words is music important to you?

Yes, I've always loved it and really couldn't live without it.

Have you any musical skill?

I hardly called it skill, but I was taught the piano

when I was a little boy, and this was very useful to me in the 1930s

when I played in the local dance band

even more so when I was in the Navy and I played the fiddle I was in the school

band and when I was in the Navy I played the Tin Whistle. I can still give a respectable performance of the Teddy Bears picnic on the

what on the tin whistle. Now records what's the first one? My first record is Daniel's play, the play of Daniel. This is a musical drama sung in Latin by an unknown author of the 12th century. A thrilling story of the adventures of the and goodness knows what? There's a splendid overture to this little

opera which is crisp and witty and bright and amusing and always makes me want to

jump out the house and dance. I love it.

The overture to Daniels play. The The The the The overture to the 12th century play, Daniel's play, it's a Russian recording by the

Ensemble Hortus Musickers. You're an only child, don't you? Yes, I am. My father became

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