Hello I'm Krusty 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. This week our cast away as the singer, Gwyneth Jones.

Ms Jones, could you endure loneliness for a long time?

Oh yes, absolutely.

Well, as an opera singer, one finds oneself very often sitting alone in a hotel.

And I find all sorts of things to do.

At home, do you play records a lot?

I'm not that often at home of course. I love to listen to records although I very

seldom get time to listen to even my own records. Well you've just got eight on this desert island, a very small

allowance. Did you find it difficult to choose? Absolutely awful. I mean one just

wants to take everything with you and you try to choose and you think oh no I must have that and I

must have this and it's very very difficult. Well there's a pile beside you have just

eight and those are the ones you're stuck with.

Yes, I mean a singer of course has a wonderful advantage maybe over other people

and that is that you can sing your own favorite music.

And what's the first one on that little poem?

I'd love to start with the ninth symphony of Beethoven,

which I think is so wonderful, it's so joyous, and it's something that we're all longing for today

that we could live in peace together, that all men could be brothers and live joyfully together and I think this is a theme

that I would always want to have. The White House Why has a been a man, the room,

that the most of the most of the most the most the same is true We're the best friends and find us the great and find a great Aye and a friend with his way to.

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