Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On our desert island this week is the actor Ian Karl Michael.

Ian, we've dumped you on this island.

As a consolation, what would you be happiest to have got away from? Civilization, I think.

All of it?

Well, what is loosely known civilization today?

I think for the first few days,

I would sit back and relish the solitude I think

possibly after a week or so I'd be getting a little anxious but initially I

think I could relish getting away from it all all the the noise and hustle and the pollution.

We often used to hear you sing in review.

Does that mean you had a musical training?

Only a very small musical training, probably about as much as you had.

I have none.

You have none.

Well I have the next best thing.

I did start to learn the piano once, but I found it too difficult to look at so many notes you

know notes for eight fingers and two thumbs so I abandoned that in favor of the

E flat alto saxophone where I only had to look at one note at a time.

Do you play records a lot?

Yes, always have done.

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