Hello I'm Krusty 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 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast away as the actor James Fox.

James, how well do you think you could endure loneliness for quite a long time?

Well I quite enjoy being alone, and although I think it'd be a bit rash to say I would enjoy

enduring loneliness, I don't think that I would be too upset at the thought because I don't mind

my own company and I think I should enjoy that.

How much do you think your eight records would help?

Yes, I think they'd help a lot.

I should enjoy playing them and replaying them because I have done that already quite a lot.

Music means a lot to you? I would say it does. I mean I don't have music on all day long,

but it does mean quite a lot to me, have you any musical skill yourself no I try to

play the trombone when I was young yeah which is in some connection with my first

choice but I don't really have a talent for it. It's my brother Edward who really has the talent for music in our family.

Well he plays a piano.

You sing? No I don't. You've never happened to sing in a production.

In thoroughly modern Millie, the film I made with Julie Andrews, in a It was terribly off-putting really. They gave me a disc which had the musical introduction and then I had the lyric to sing and I practiced at home rather half-heartedly thinking, well, this isn't very easy to do. Perhaps it'll be easier on the day when we're with the

orchestra I went to the studio and had the orchestra and came in to do my bit and did it and

presumably they weren't satisfied with it and put a rather perfect Hollywood tenor on

which I think spoiled it spoiled it tremendously the singing bit my dance the tapioca but they couldn't

dub your dancing that was you that was me they couldn't have the dancing exactly well what's the

first record of this eight the first record is jelly roll Morton and his red

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