Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1985, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast away as the actress Julie Walters. Julie could you endure loneliness?

Oh not for very long I don't think. How much does music mean to you?

Well I haven't got a huge collection of records, but it is important. I listen to the radio every day, it's important.

All these records I've chose, I don't have any of them.

I know that sounds mad, but they're all very special to be for various reasons and so I

don't actually listen to my records very often I keep losing them that's why I haven't

got all of it. Do you play the piano or the guitar or anything like that?

Yes, I play the piano, but by ear, I haven't got a piano anymore.

We had a piano at home.

Do you sing?

Yes, I love a sing.

Have we heard you sing, have you sung on television?

Yes, with my friend Victoria Wood I've done the scene.

Of course, yes, I was forgetting your reviews.

Yes.

So you're musically experienced and you play records.

What's the first one? The first one is by two women called

the Weather Girls and it's called it's raining men. What does this mean to you? What I think is really funny. I mean it's the thought of all these

hundreds of men raining through the air. Do you imagine the awful mess they'd make?

I mean it's all right, these two girls that sing it are absolutely huge so they'd be all right in a situation. Past year. For the first time history it's going to start raining there.

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