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 Plumlee. On our Desert Island this week is one of Britain's outstanding dancers David Wall.

Now David obviously you must know about music because you have to count bars and memorize and you hear several last music a day.

Does it go further than that? Can you play an instrument?

I learned to play the recorder when I was a child, but

wasn't terribly successful at it. But my love for music really is as a relaxation. I enjoy listening to music very much.

To pay a record to life? Yes indeed I have a nice collection. In fact everybody that sees my collection tells me that I'm terribly romantic.

Oh well that we shall see. How did you set about choosing your music for the island? Is it

nostalgic? Is it great performances? Nostalgic basically. Everything that I've

chosen either brings back the memory of a person or a situation or in her time.

Where do we start?

We start with the songs of the ovene.

What does that take you back to?

Actually it takes me back to a Japanese tour, although it's set in...

The songs are set in France.

I first heard the recording when I was in Tokyo and it was a nice tour and a tour I'd like to remember. Remember. The Oh, me, e, ea, mea, a, a, mea,

a,

a, a dia no, a d oh, oh.ya, with your head by the man. by Léro from the songs of the Oveern sung by Victoria Los Angles

What part of the country do you come from David? I'm a Londoner

Any tradition for the arts in your family? No, my father was a technical engineer, my mother, a housewife.

You began dancing when you were very young indeed.

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