Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. A Castaway has spent a lifetime immersed in music. She's a conductor, artistic director of the London Motzart

players, a musical director of the London Call Society. In her spare time if she hasn't, she's managed

to make a name for herself on television, particularly when presenting the series

orchestra and Motsout for BBC One. She is Jane's lover. Jane, was there any doubt at

all that you do anything other than music as a career?

Oh yes, when I was nine, I wanted to be a police woman.

Why a police woman?

I couldn't tell you. It didn't last very long after that I certainly was playing a lot of music and

you know learning music as a lot of children do and I had recognized that there was

something instinctive in me which responded to music.

But I didn't think that I had necessarily articulated that I was going to be a musician.

For a long time I wanted to be an actress, you know, as all school girls do.

What sort of family do you come from?

I mean, was there a lot of music in the family?

We are not essentially a musical family,

it's an academic family, though my parents were keen amateur musicians in the sense that they sang with choral societies and that sort of thing.

So there was always music on the periphery of the home, they're not necessarily in it.

Let's go to your first choice of music now. What's your first record on your Desert

Island? Well it's always so difficult when no one has played this game, Desert

Island discs for years. When it comes to one's own choice. It's absolute agony. I could easily

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