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Hello, I'm Lauren Levine and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.

For rights reasons, the music is shorter than on the original broadcast. The presenter is Roy Plumlee. I hope you enjoy listening. The presenter is Roy Plumlee. on our desert island this week is the American actor Joseph Cotton.

Well, I'm ruining you on this Desert Island, Joe.

As one consolation, what would you be happiest to have got away from?

I'm not going to be happy to get away from anything.

Right now I'm very happy in London, where I spend as much time as I possibly can.

I'm married to a beautiful English girl, Patricia Medina, who has a large family here.

I'm from the South myself in the United States and we call them all of our relatives kissing cousins and she has a big

family of kissing cousins here who've been terribly warm and welcoming

welcome to me as as well in the, so I come here whenever possible.

Does music mean a lot to you?

Music does.

Have you any musical skill?

I don't remember ever hearing you sing in the movie.

Have you, Doctor?

No. And, uh... hearing you sing in the movie have you doctor? No and I don't know why I can't say. I

seriously tried to learn to say because when I first went into the theater I thought that I should learn to do everything that I could use in the theater.

I know that the theater could use of my challenge.

And then I said, let me tell tell you I sang in the quiet. It was a boy and when my voice changed the bishop warned me that if I insisted on going to hell by going on the stage I should confine my

rules to speaking only so once my boy soprano went, literally kicked out of the choir.

No, I don't say, but I do like music.

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