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 Plumley. Today Desert Islandists is coming from the Peak District of Darvisha from one of England's

most celebrated stately homes, Chatsworth, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire,

and I'm sitting with them in one of the 175 rooms in the house and this is the Duke sitting room.

I think that's right Duke is it?

That's absolutely correct. Now the main building here is 17th century but there are parts that are older than that.

I don't think anything visible is earlier than that but certainly behind existing walls there are. For example, the medicine cabinet in my wife's

bedroom is divided by an Elizabethan beam and probably behind the electric lights which you took that out we found some Elizabeth

from brickworks. Now you're going to give us your joint desert island

does music mean a lot in your lives? Do you play records a lot?

I always mean to and then something else always crops up. Do you play the piano? Do you play an instrument?

Oh no, last. Shall we let the Duchess make the first choice? you think that's fair lady solid right what you're going to choose

I would like please to have Fridesdair singing an old tune called Heart of Stone

Why do you choose that?

Because our house in Ireland used to belong to Andrew's uncle, who was married to

Fredistair's sister Adele, and all her old records are there and this one is one we play very often

and when as soon as I hear it takes me back to the sitting room at Lismol the south of Ireland. A sunrays in your hair are naturally all your own. Their gold couldn't save you, somebody gave you, a heart of stone, your voices like the breeze,

a passionate undertone. A Passionate Underton, but under the Passion, Somebody Fashion

Heart of Stone by Fred Astaire. I'd like to ask you about your family. You're the 11th Duke, is that right?

That is right. And the family name is Cavendish, from Suffolk. Yes indeed.

And Sir William Cavendish of Suffolk, I hope

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