Hello I'm Krusty 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 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. All I dozad Island this week is the actress Janet Suisman.

Janet do play records a lot?

I do.

Have you any musical talent yourself?

None whatsoever, and I regret it so deeply.

I started playing the violin when I was seven and I thought I was wonderful

but my mother told me to give up I think she couldn't bear the noises I was making

around about 14 we've done seven years of it. Yeah I did seven years but yeah but I

showed no prodigal talent I think. How did you set about choosing your eight for the

island? That was difficult. You set me a terrible problem because it was either going to be 20 or 1 and I had to choose 8.

Very arbitrary number seems to me.

Really?

Anyway, I did, by a vague process of elimination and then I got sidetracked all the time.

What's the first one?

The first one, oh, from the marriage of Figaro, Borgeamore that lonely countess. I saw myself rather leaning

against the palm tree singing to the sea instead of her to her curtain. Anyway, I think it's very beautiful. Holy a she said

a she my mother. Oh, Nice a moral. shall be noir.

the main.

Ove in no me. Paula Giamur from Mozart to the Madh Figaro. The Lonely Count is sung by Elizabeth Schwarzkop. You come from Johannesburg, don't you attack?

Yes, I was born there. And you went to school there and university there. What did you read?

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