Hello I'm Krusty 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 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is the violinist It's Act Perlman.

Mr. Perlman, you fly so many hundreds of thousands of miles a year that a spell on a desert island seems a possibility.

How many miles is it you do?

Have you ever worked it out?

No, I never did.

It's quite amazing.

I do too much.

But I just, I'm afraid that if I stop to think about how many miles I do I would stop traveling

because I don't like it anyway but I lose a lot of banks too.

You lost one just last week I lost one just last week and then I remember very well.

Had a lot of scores in it. A lot of scores, a lot of music, everything. I had to play a concert in my blue jeans in Brussels and it was quite exciting.

Did you have any plan in choosing these records?

Are you looking back?

Are they great performances or what did you have in mind when you chose this eight?

Well I'll tell you, it's a combination.

It's a little bit of great performances and a little bit of really the music,

and not necessarily together, as you will see some of the great performances

here and not necessarily what I would choose musically but what I would choose because of the incredible performance.

But the thing about living with music and just with a certain amount of music is that it has to be great and it has to last. Of course if I would make any mistakes

nobody would know about them would they? I would be stuck. Right. What's the

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