Hello I'm Krusty 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 Plumley. Our cast away this week is the playwright Christopher Fry. Now Christopher

Christopher, before we start talking about your career and about your plays,

let's hear your first record. What's the first one on that pilot?

The first is, this may sound as though I'm going to be full of nostalgia, but it's not really so because I think I would have chosen it anyway.

But it's the first record I ever possessed. In some way I was given a gramophone which was one of those

H&V table models, oh, rather splendid things.

Wined up.

Wined up, yes.

And the first record, which was such an excitement to me,

to put on and hear the first notes emerging emerging from this was the Schubert Trio in the flat, played by

Casals and Korto and Tiber. The The Oh, The The opening of Schubert's trio number one in B-flat major, played by Corto, Tibo, and Casals, and recorded it says on the 6th of July,

1926. What part of the country do you come from?

I was born in Bristol where my father was working as a lay reader in our parish there.

And he died when I was three and then we moved from Bristol and about a year later

my mother took my brother and me off to Bedford where she heard the education was very good.

In fact you went to Bedford Modern School.

That's right, yes.

I believe you took to music very early in life.

I used to get up and play the piano in some strange way from as soon as I could reach the notes.

By ear.

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