Hello I'm Kristi Young and this is a download from the Desert Island

Discs archive. This edition may be slightly different from what was

actually broadcast but it's the only version we have. It comes from the

British Library's radio collection. It was

archived without the music, so although the Castaways choices are introduced,

they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week, our cast who is the director and choreographer Jillian Lynn.

Jillian you have just eight discs.

Now you're listening to music all day long, do you play it at home as well as in the theatre or the studio wherever you're working? Yes all the time it's my way of relaxing a big collection of discs huge, this choice was really, it's given me sleepless nights.

Do you have any musical skill yourself?

Do you play an instrument?

I have none. I have a very, very quick ear, thank goodness, but I started learning when I was a kid.

The piano?

Yes, had a cruel teacher.

She hit me so hard on the mouth one day a tooth fell out.

Oh, how beastly.

And my darling parents, I was an only child, instead of finding another teacher and making me go on,

they didn't, they were kind, and I wish they had because now it would be very

useful as you can imagine. But obviously we have a great appreciation of Muelly.

What's the first of the discs you've chosen? My first one would be a record of Diana Ross's because it's the

tune that Peter and I fell in love to. Peter, your husband? Yes, Peter Land.

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