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. On this occasion I'm in a lovely old house on the Cornish coast and I'm with Dame Daphne

Daphne do Morier. Dame Daphne what would you be happiest to have left behind if you were on a desert island?

I don't think anything particular.

I should be unhappy to leave my home which I love.

How much does music mean to you?

Is it an important thing in your life?

I've got to be very frank with you and tell you it used to mean much more than it does now.

Do you play records a lot?

Not a great deal, I used to, and I've got records stacked away,

but I must confess that nowadays I am a tele fan.

Yes. And I go into my television with my supper in the evening at about 8 o'clock, switch on, and switch off at at 11 o'clock.

Going to sleep sometimes in the middle.

What's the first record you've chosen?

Well, this is really a record I've loved for a long time, which is the very well-known grieve piano

concerto.

And I used to hear this during the war when I was staying with friends and this is where I heard most of what I call

the good music that I like and keep. Oh, The Oh, The Part of Greig's piano concerto in A minor with Gheza Ander the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

You're the third generation of a writing family,

your grandfather was George de Morrier, the illustrator and author of Trilby.

Do you remember him? Oh no, he died. the illustrator and author of Trilby.

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