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 1985, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Our castaway this week is an American astronaut, one for whom spacewalking seems to have no

terrors.

It's Joseph Allen.

Dr. Allen, which of the United States are you from?

I'm from the state of Indiana.

Are you fond of music?

I am very fond of music.

Now tell me when you're on the space shuttle, do you have any music?

Can you get some piped up from below or do you have some on board?

The answer is yes to both questions.

We do hear just bits and pieces of music occasionally that come up from below.

Normally, however, we carry on board cassettes, or just very normal ordinary cassettes, that

we play in cassette players very much like a walkman.

We do not play them allowed in the spaceship, only because some people might not like that

particular selection or someone else might be trying to catch a quick nap, but we play

them with earphones.

Of course, every single ounce comes.

So you're presumably to a very limited number of cassettes.

We are.

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