Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is the world expert on Worcester porcelain.

His love of his subject, he confesses to being a potaholic,

dates from the day when age 29 he dug up some Roman pots in his garden.

Until then, music rather than porcelain

had dominated his life.

He was a lay clerk at Worcester Cathedral

under Sir David Wilcox and a member of its choir

for 25 years.

Ten years after that garden discovery, he became the curator of the museum at the Royal

Worcester Factory, and a decade after that, a familiar figure on radio and television, as he shared his love of his subject

with the audience of the Antiques Roadshow. So in a career that's encompassed

music, broadcasting and pottery, Pottery wins, hands down.

I need a new pot every day to satisfy my craving, he says.

He is Henry Sandon.

Very extravagant to pot a day.

Do you manage to keep that up?

Oh, I do.

Yes. Sometimes I have to get two for the next day, but so I always manage a pot.

But what is it?

What is it that turns you on about a pot?

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