Hello, I'm Kristi Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week, our cast away is the actress, entertainer, and authoress, Diana Doors.

Diana, welcome and sure.

Thank you.

Do you play discs a lot?

I don't, actually, no.

I'd love to be able to say yes, but I don't.

I used to, a great deal, because I found that in those days, I needed background music all the time to what I was doing.

Now, I suppose it's because I've got a teenage son and many young people have actually worked for me as nannies and whatever, you know, in the last few years.

And I find it very strange, perhaps I was exactly the same, but everything they do, including the gardener, has to be done with the transistor radio,

blaring out, ear-splitting noise, regardless of what sort of music it is.

And I just love the piece and quiet of not having that sound, so I don't play records as much as I used to.

Well, you've got only eight on the island, and you don't have to play them, except when you feel like it.

Oh, how lovely.

What's the first one?

Well, I am an optimist, you see.

So, therefore, I would be looking on the right side and hoping that somebody was going to come and rescue me.

One of my favorite male singers is Tony Bennett.

I've had the pleasure of working with him in strange places like South America.

And so, this record, one of hundreds is sung.

The best is yet to come, I think, is an optimistic message from someone like Tony Bennett.

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