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. On our Desert Island this week is the actor Dinsdale Landon. Now Dinsdale

you've been to Tropic Climes haven't you? You went off to the Far East?

Yes indeed. When was there? About 12th 13 years ago.

Whose company?

That was the open air Shakespeare company in Regents Park and we took

the Shrew and Richard the 2nd and I played Petruchio.

Where did you go? All over India and all the major cities of India and then we went on to the Far East to Hong Kong,

Singapore, Kuching, Manila in the Philippines.

Gour.

Quilalalalumpa. Did you get off the beaten track? Philippines. Gourg. Um, um, um, and, uh, quite a lot. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

And for example, if you go to somewhere like Calcutta, which I can assure you is pretty ghastly by any stands.

I mean, you really got to get out to be sane.

I mean to the evening. So I used to hire a lot of cars or say,

it sounds really grand. Just got on buses or you know, just wandered around.

Got off into the jungle?

That's right.

Countryside.

So you have a pretty good idea what it would be like to build a hut out of bamboo.

Yes, I've got an idea whether I could actually do it.

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