Hello, I'm Christy 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 1983, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week our cast wears the author, journalist and traveler, Jan Morris.

This Morris is music important to you.

No, I really don't think it is, I feel it ought to be, but it's a bit like alcohol I find.

I like it very much if I've got it, but if it isn't there, I don't seem to need it very much.

Was it difficult to choose just eight discs to take to this island?

Not awfully difficult as I only possess about ten, so I've chosen the vast majority of them to have.

What's the first one?

The first one is Bach, and it's got two sort of associations for me.

One is that I was brought up to believe that Bach was easily the greatest composer the world has ever known,

and do you know that when I was very small, I thought this was a sort of scientific fact,

and I used to scorn people who thought that Beethoven was great there.

I thought it was simply a physical impossibility to have a greater composer than Bach,

so I'd like to have him to start off with.

And I'd like a piece played by my brother, Gareth Morris, the flottest,

the Bach B minor suite for flute and orchestra.

And I'd like a piece played by my brother, Gareth Morris, the flottest,

the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest,

the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest,

the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest, the flottest,

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