Hello, I'm Krusty 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 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our castaway as a celebrated photographer, the Earl of Snowden who began life as Tony Armstrong

Jones. Lord Snowden, with what degree of dread would you view a spell on a desert island?

Mr. Mum, do call me Tony, please.

Thank you, I would.

I would have enormous pleasure.

I'd love every second of it.

Even for quite a long time.

Oh yes, I would adore not having the telephone. Is music a big thing in your life?

No. Music means mostly nostalgia to me. It reminds me of what I did at a certain moment. It reminds me when I made

something or when I photographed something. It's secondary. I mean, really, I'm entirely visual.

It's not that I'm turned deaf, but if I'm at the ballet, I'm watching rather than listening, and listening is just there as a secondary.

What's the first record you've got there on your list?

Well, I've got written down a record called The Green Cocker 2,

and it was the only record I had when I was at school.

We were not allowed gramophones, as I'd like to call them.

But on the other hand, a master said one was allowed anything that one made oneself.

So I made a radiogram, which took quite a a long time and I just had this one record

a greencog or two on the flip side as they call it nowadays was a thing called

Shakita Banana. I remember it vividly and it almost wore through from one side to the other.

But the making of the grammar phone was much more important than listening to the music.

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