Hello, I'm Krestey 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 1990, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a comedian. He first set foot on the stage 58 years ago wearing red clogs and

singing I'm knee-deep in daisies. This auspicious beginning was enhanced when at

the age of 14 he met the man with whom he was to spend nearly 50 years of his professional life.

Together they sang, danced and joked their way to the top, from the second spot at the

Liverpool Empire to a national television series of their own.

At the height of their fame they were attracting audiences of 26 million.

When six years ago his partner died, my castaway, left to stand on his own short fat hairy legs set about building a

new show business career for himself he is of course little earn the much put upon

half of the great maucom and wise double act Ernie Wise. So how are the

short fat hair legs Ernie are they bearing up? I comb them every morning of

course I display them too and always wear shorts and the join I mean I still can't see it. No no that was a

wonderful joke wasn't it? What happened was that we were in some digs in chisink. There was a

guy who was staying there with us and he was an acrobat, he was called Paul Kefka, and he used to wear a wig, an obvious wig with a top piece,

you know, and you could see all the glue at the front and everything.

So we used to walk around saying out of the

corner of my mouth you can't see the join and that developed from there and

eventually Eric said it about me. But of course it was jealousy really and

because Eric was losing his hair,

he was all receding if you remember.

So is this news Ernie Wies has never ever worn a two-pay?

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