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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our castaway this week is the actress Claire Bloom. How much does music mean to you, Ms Bloom?

In my life a great deal, I always have the radio on Radio 3 or play records when I'm alone. My great joy is to go to the opera. My daughter is studying opera which has given me a rather new interest in music that I didn't

have before in opera, in opera singers, so that it's opened quite a door to me.

Do you play an instrument? No, didn't I mean I had the usual

piano lessons that doesn't add up to anything very much no alas I don't. You sing

yourself I don't sing I had singing lessons too I can say categorically I don't sing I did dance and of course that has a great deal to do with music and the rhythms of music

How do you do set about choosing your meagre allowance of ape discs to take onto the island?

Yes, it is very meager. I chose things that I would like to hear again and again,

assuming that I'm going to be there for a very long time.

You're not choosing nostalgic clear, they're not to recall the past.

No, I thought of that, but those are the kind of things you play once.

These are all works that I would like to hear again and again.

Where do we start? What is the first one?

The first is Beethoven's Emperor Concerto played by Maurizio Polini conducted by Carl Berm.

Which section?

The adageo, the entrance of the piano. Oh, Oh, The Oh, Part of the second movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Maritio Palliniini with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carl

Boom.

Were you born in London?

Yes, I was.

Of Russian and German ancestry I believe.

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