Hello, I'm Krestey 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 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our cast away this week is an outstanding reporter both in print and on the air.

It's James Cameron.

Are you a musical person, James?

Do you enjoy music?

No. The one reason you know I ducked this program for so long is that I am musically totally uneducated. I have very very unsophisticated tastes and music and to be frank I get very little

pleasure from it. I mean in its intellectual form it's in its naive forms as we'll hear I can take it but I don't know much about it.

So you don't play records very much as hardly over.

Well you've got eight presented to you by the BBC, eight of your choice.

What's the first one we're going to hear? Well it has occurred to me that if I am

going to be marooned on this desert island,

I would be far better doing something constructive,

rather than playing away at a gramophone record,

why don't I learn a totally foreign language?

After all, I got plenty of time to learn it, plenty of opportunity, and plenty of leisure

to do so. So I would take a linguistic course in some completely

exotic and bizarre language, for example Japanese. I don't particularly want to know Japanese.

I'm very improbable that I shall ever have to make use it.

But I would like to think that I was not altogether wasting my time on this desert.

I cannot find my hotel address

hotel no jewshoga mitzkari mrhen

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