This is the BBC.

Hello, I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast

from the Desert Islandists' Archive.

This is the only extract the BBC has

of this edition of Desert Island Discs

for rights reasons we've had to shorten the music.

The programme was originally broadcast in 1962

and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Mr. Martin, I am not part of Italy, we were born.

A little bit proceeding in the province of Padua

in the region of Valencia,

naturally some incidental visiting singers

that came into the little town.

But we had a good, a good municipal band

and they enjoyed it with the other music.

We were in the municipal band.

Yes, because you see I study, I study clarinet,

and become a clarinet player.

Yes.

What was your first ambition to be?

At the very beginning of my childhood,

just to work with my father as a cabinet maker.

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