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. Our cast way this week is a writer who lives an adventurous life. When a journalist he was

in the thick of things as a foreign correspondent, in recent years he's been writing books

about distant places. It's Jeffrey Moorhouse. Jeffrey, a desert island with many hazards

on it. You have endured loneliness at some time, isolation? Yes, I deliberately exposed myself to it once when I took some camels across the Sahara.

Whether I'd cope with it on a desert island or not remains to be seen, let us say.

How much would a limited amount of music help? It would help a lot.

I like music and I find it difficult to imagine life without music. I can't pretend I have it playing continuously but I

would miss it very badly if I didn't have any. I know you were once in the church

choir. Do you play an instrument? I played the violin when I was a kid and dropped it because exam pressures became too great

and I messed about with the bazuki a few years ago but never really commanded the instrument.

I wish most of all that I kept up my singing actually.

Well, Aetreggort, what's the first one?

I think harking back to that beginning, I was lucky enough to be in a rather good church choir which instantly introduced me to the world of Orlando Gibbons and Charles Villiers Stanford and I've always had a great feeling for liturgical music.

So I'd like, please, the Allegri Misaree

with that boy hitting the fantastic note two octaves above Middle Sea. Oh, I'll be my community.

But the lightest more. In the Lord. Oh, The sacrifice of God is a trouble of skill.

A broken and contrite art to God shall not not despise.

Allegra is miserary by the Choir of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.

Where was the church in which you sang in the choir?

It was in Berry in which you sang in the choir. It was in

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