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 1993, and the presenter was Sue Lolley.

My cast away this week is a singer. For more than 30 years, she's raised her voice in protest against injustice.

Born into a Quaker family in New York, she made her mark at the age of 18, singing at the Newport

Folk Festival. During the 60s, she achieved worldwide fame, and for a while teamed up with another

young folk singer called Bob Dylan. At the same time, she marched alongside Martin Luther King

with held her taxes and protested against the war in Vietnam. Today, she feels as strongly as ever

about freedom and peace, only this spring she sang in Sarajevo to show support for the suffering

people of Bosnia. She is Joan Bies, and I confess it's with great difficulty Joan that I say

Bies and not Bias, because I must be one of millions who spent your whole career mispronouncing

your name. Not on the priorities of things that concern me since it's pronounced differently,

whichever country I'm in. Which other country's pronounced it how? Oh, in Germany it's Joan Bies,

and in France it's Joan Bies, and in Spain it was originally Bias, which is why it's confusing

to people. But it's a single syllable Bies. We remember you too with long black hair and a very

earnest, well the solemn face, and today you've got short stylish hair and you're all smiles.

Are you a completely different person? I'm very different, and I'm feeling, I think many people

are stuck in some way in the 60s, and when they see me or hear me they identify immediately

with their time in the 60s. I don't think I had that good at time in the 60s. I mean, I was very,

very serious about my work, and I was popping in and out of jail and doing demonstrations, and it was,

I was stimulated by it all, and I'm glad I did all of it, but I didn't have a great deal of fun.

I wasn't, I didn't know what that meant yet, and that has come a little bit as the years have

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