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. This week our castaway is the author and journalist Claire Rayna.

Claire with what degree of dread do you view a spell on a desert island?

Total dread, if I'm really going to be on my own.

I'm a talker, you see.

I do like people and I like to be talked back to.

In fact my friend say that my epitaph ought to be shut up and listen.

And there I'll have to wonder.

How much would eight discs help?

Oh, quite a bit, quite a bit.

I listen to music a lot.

It's important to me.

Have you any musical skilled yourself?

Skill?

Oh, none, whatever.

My family, if I start to sing, grown,

because I can't hit the notes right.

Did you find it very difficult to choose to have to eight records?

Oh, enormously, my initial list was somewhat over 60-something.

And that was the ones I absolutely had to have. It got worse from then on.

What's the first one? Well the very first one is to remind me of when I was young

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