Hello, I'm Christy Young, and you're listening to Desert Island Discs.

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast,

but it's the only version we have. It comes from the British Library's Radio Collection.

It was archived without the music, so although the Castaways' choices are

introduced, they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on

the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website. The programme was

originally broadcast in 1976, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

This week, our Castaways, the actress Julia Foster.

Julia, do you pay records a lot? Yes, I do. Maybe not a lot by some people's

standards, but I enjoy music and I play quite a lot. How did you set about

choosing just eight that may have to last a long, long time?

It was absolute agony. I think I relied on my first

first instincts rather than actually thinking about it too much, and I tried to pick...

I don't know, something classical, and something jazz, and something

folk, and something funnys, all the things I enjoyed. Funnily enough, the thing that

interested me most, when I seriously started thinking about it, the people involved in

the records were more important than the actual music they played.

How do you feel about this Desert Island proposition? Could you endure

loneliness, do you think? I don't know. I mean, I think after the first six months,

and once when I've got a super-santane, I think I would be wanting to show it off rather

badly. I wouldn't enjoy it. What would you be happier to have got away from?

Oh, traffic, cars, noise. That's why I like Venice so much. Tranquility.

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