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 cellist Julian Lloyd Weber.

Julian as well as making records, do you listen to them a lot?

Not so much as I used to, when I was a student I used to listen to records all the time and now perhaps

I don't listen to them so much just principally because I'm working at music all the day.

Could you endure learnliness?

Yes, I think so.

What would you be happiest to have got away from?

There are a lot of things that I'd be fairly happy to get away from.

Travel, for one thing. Travel is a part of musical life today but for

a cellist it's not something which is particularly enjoyable as you can imagine traveling by

airlines and that sort of thing.

There are things about modern life that I would be very glad to escape from like motorway service stations at Pylon lines and very similar kind of things.

You have just eight discs to cheer you up.

What's the first one?

Well the first one takes me right back a long way

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