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 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our castaway this week is a film director, a very independent film director.

You'll have seen a number of his feature films on television, if not in the cinema.

It's James Ivory.

Mr Ivory, there's a well-known saying in film studios,

it'll be all right when we got music on it.

And I presume the director has his say in choosing the music,

so it's an advantage if he knows a bit about it. Is music an interest of yours?

Very much so, yes.

Have you any musical skilled? You play an instrument?

I don't. I can't do anything.

I would have liked to play the piano, or the harps cord but I never took lessons and I guess the time has passed now.

But you enjoy listening.

But I enjoy very much, yes.

I enjoy the musical part of my films, I mean the scoring of the films, laying the music in because

you know it's scored in a certain way into certain links but then once you get in the editing

room sometimes to the dismay of the composer you move it around a bit. With what degree of dread would you view a spell on a desert island?

Could you endure loneliness?

I suppose I could endure it, but I wouldn't exactly like it.

I wouldn't look forward to being on the Desert Island for very long.

Do you think this miserable allowance of just eight discs would help?

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