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 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week are castaway as a writer of C stories. In fact he's two writers of

C stories. Stay with me and all will be explained. Douglas Riemann, how much

does music mean in your life? I think it means a lot in as much that

various pieces of music have acted as milestones of my life really and when I hear

a certain piece of music it always reminds me of a place or an event or some part of my job in the past.

Have you any skill at music? Do you play an instrument?

Well, when I was a boy, I suppose 15 or 16, I must admit I was a drummer in a jazz band.

Yes, it was called Rim Shot Roy and his Rhythm Rascals.

We really knocked them cold.

And you were Rim Shot Roy? No, no, I was just the drummer.

The chap who taught me was Rimschott Roy and he played about four different instruments.

Where were you playing? Oh, we used to play at all these school dances and around Surrey and so on.

It was a real riot.

Did you sing the vocals?

Oh no, no, nothing like that.

Now I just nearly deafened myself playing these two drums. Well, it's quite good, actually.

Do you play discs nowadays?

Oh, yes, yes.

And I play tapes to it when I'm driving.

I like to be accompanied by music as much as possible.

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