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

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast away is the actor Donald Sinden.

Donald I've got a long list of plays and films here but no musicals.

No, I tried to keep that one quiet.

I did have once appeared in a musical.

Did you? What was that? Cuals Joire de Vise. I did you what was just once appear in a musical just once called

Joire de Vieve it was a musicalized version of Terrence Ratagans French without tears

that's right in 1960 we had an ecstatic tour of 10 weeks around the regions, playing two weeks in each city,

and then we arrived into London at the Queen's Theatre, and we opened on a Thursday evening,

and we closed on Saturday. In that three days did you sing? I did and you

see I'm tone deaf and my wife says that I should never never sing at all but

unfortunately Terry Ratikin telephoned me about that and said can you sing and I said no and he said well we want you to be appeared in this musical.

They all thought I was joking you see it wasn't until we opened that they discovered that I couldn't.

Is music important in your life apart from the fact that you don't make any, if you can help it?

Incredibly important, yes. I listen a lot to music.

My wife and I go to the opera every night we have off and I listen to a lot as I say at home.

I can't envisage life without music as a matter of fact.

But although I'm totally tone-deaf myself, I can't sing a note I can tell immediately if anyone is a

Smidgin off tone

What's the first one you've chosen, the first record?

My first record.

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