Hello, I'm Christy 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 1979.

And the presenter was Roy Plumlee.

On a desert island this week is the clarinetist, saxophonist and broadcaster Jack Brimer.

Jack, most of your professional life you spent in the company of about 90 other people in symphony orchestras,

is it going to be difficult to take loneliness?

I think I would find it extremely difficult to take loneliness, not for that reason because I'm a bit of a loner, but I would not like being on a desert island alone because I really do believe that one human being without another has no significant

whatsoever I think it's a dead loss.

How did you set about choosing your aid record you looking back?

I've just thought of things which were significant to my life and to those around me and they

have automatically slaughtered in I think. What's the first one? The first one I'd

like to be one of the very first pieces I did play with Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

It's an overture by Berleus called The Corsair.

Le Corsair by Berleus, Sir John. La Cosser by Belios Sir Thomas Beachham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Now Jack you're from the northeast?

Yes, from the Tine Sideide area, from South Shields actually.

Near the sea.

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