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. This week our cast away as the writer Colin Wilson Colin. Colin I know you're interested in music you have a big collection of records.

Yes, I have about 15,000 I saw 15,000

I started to buy them when the outside he came out as soon as I could afford to buy records and they've just gone on accumulating.

15,000 now if you wanted to sit down and play all those it would take you quite a long time.

Yes, I worked out about three years. all those it would take you quite a long time.

Yes, I worked out about three years playing ten hours a day.

Well, we're just going to spend about 35 minutes now.

Your first record for Desert Island, what's it going to be?

Since one of my main interests is opera, of a large opera collection, I'd like a bit of Wagner to start

off with, not a lifelong obsession, a bit of Rheingold, the Storm music. But I'm not here. I'm in a hand.

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in a ha habibor. Oh, The The And exer An excerpt from the recording of Wagner's d'Reingold directed by George

Shelti and we heard the voice of Eberhart vector.

What part of the country are you from, Colin?

I'm from the Midlands, from Leicester.

No, your father worked in a factory, they're a shoe fact.

Yes, he was in the boot and shoe trade all his life.

Now, you became as a child a voracious reader what

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