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. Our castaway this week is Deborah Carr. Deborah how well could you stand loneliness?

Could you adjust yourself to it?

Oh Roy! Well I think I could possibly stand it pretty well. I've always rather enjoyed being alone.

How important is music to you?

Enormously important.

Do you play an instrument?

I play the piano.

I used to play it rather well.

I play it extremely badly now, I regret to say,

but I enjoy fiddling around on our piano that both my daughters learn to play

very much better than I did and neither of them have kept it up but I love music

and have it going a great deal.

What's your first record going to be?

My first record is going to be Vorgiak's New World Symphony

and out of sentiment because I played it the other time I was on Desert Island discs.

Yes, I remember you did. Oh, The The 4shacks, New World Symphony, part of the first movement, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

conducted by erst Van Kertisch. You're a Scott of course, Deborah?

Yes, I am. You spent your childhood in Scotland?

Well only until I was five so you know that's not not very long and then moved south to

Surrey. Yes and I'm a gypsy I've lived all over the world gone to Surrey. Yes. And I'm a gypsy.

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