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 wears the author. And the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week, our cast wears the author Helen Hanf.

Now, Miss Hanf, we're not very isolated at the moment because we're sitting in your London hotel suite,

but in the event of real isolation on a desert island,

could you endure it, do you think?

Oh, I wouldn't last three days.

Does music mean a lot in your life?

Means so much that I was up all night thinking I couldn't go there with only eight selections.

Do you have any musical scale yourself?

Do you play an instrument?

None, whatever, just ears.

What's the first disk you've chosen?

The first disk I've chosen is the Bach D-mine of Tukata in an arrangement by Stukovsky.

Oh yes. Who when I was a teenager was the idle of Philadelphia teenagers.

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