Hello, I'm Christy 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 1976, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Our castaway this week is the naturalist and broadcaster Eric Sims.

Eric you built your hides in many isolated places. Have you visited any Desert Islands?

I haven't unfortunately visited any Desert Islands in Tropic Seas, which I'd like to very much,

but I've been on remote uninhabited islands around the British Isles,

sharing perhaps my life with 250 grey seals, but with not with many humans.

What would you be happiest to got away from?

I think noise, jet aircraft, people shouting, traffic, that kind of thing.

How big an interest is music?

I wish I could play an instrument, this has always been rather a matter of regret for me,

but I like music, I find it's an essential part of my life, and I really couldn't do without it.

Did you have any kind of plan in choosing your eight record?

I chose records which have reflected my passage really through life,

because I've led a very interesting and very varied life. What's the first record?

Hayden Rurzline, sung by Elizabeth Schumann.

This takes me back to my days when I was a teenager, becoming first interested in music,

and I used to go as a boy to the promenade concerts conducted by Sir Henry Wood in the Old Queen's Hall.

And this, I remember this delightful voice, this very delightful person.

Hayden Rurzline, sung by Elizabeth Schumann, sung by Elizabeth Schumann,

sung by Elizabeth Schumann, sung by Elizabeth Schumann, sung by Elizabeth Schumann,

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