Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island Discs archive.

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast, but it is the only version we have.

It comes from the British Library's radio collection.

The recording didn't contain the guest's eight music choices, so we rebuilt the original

show by using discs from the BBC Gramophone Library.. For rights reasons we've had to shorten the

music. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981.

And the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast away as the singer Jesse Norman.

Miss Norman, could you endure loneliness?

I think I could if I had enough things with me to sort of make it a bit more comfortable

Well you won't have a lot with you you will have eight records would they have eight records

and then I'll have a luxury yes and something else I think I'll have sort of good books with me I could manage

about two and a half weeks I suppose what would you be happiest to have got away

from the telephone I would be so happy to get away from the

telephone. I tell you. After a year or two I think you'd be very happy to have it

back again. Well probably but I think you'd be very happy to have it back again. Well, probably, but I think for about the first hundred years, I would enjoy enormously

the absence of a telephone.

Just eight records. Do you have a big collection? Do you play records? I have a lot of records, yes. I don't have anything like the vast collection that I suppose I would be expected to have because there just isn't the time to sit down and listen to them.

But I do enjoy playing records of all kinds.

What's the first one you've chosen?

The first one I've chosen is the Altor-Rhapsody of Brahms,

sung by Marion Anderson, and I've chosen this because it was one of the

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