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 1979 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our castaway this week is a star of Hollywood movies and of the New York and London stage.

It's Lauren Bacor.

This Bacor, how important is music to you?

Oh, well, music is very important. How did you set about choosing this miserable

rational of eight records? It is a miserable ration because there are so many more

things. I just thought that I would like to hear different sounds. I would like a variety.

Where do we start? What's the first one?

Ella Fitzgerald singing, isn't it a pity by George and Lara Gershwin?

Why you choose that one particularly?

Well, I love the whole Gershwin songbook that Ella recorded and that has always been one of my most favorite Gershwin songs.

I love the way she does it. Here we are at last. It's like a dream. The two of us a perfect team.

Isn't it a pity we never met before?

We never met before.

Ella Fitzgerald, isn't it a pity? Now you're a Brooklyn girl and you became stage struck. Can you track that back to any particular event?

No, I don't consider myself a Brooklyn girl funnily enough. I lived there for five years, but I was brought up in New York in Manhattan.

And I cannot track it back to anything except that it seems to me that as long as I can remember I guess I

wanted to be something that I wasn't. You went to the movies a lot I went to the movies a

lot and I first wanted to be a dancer, a ballerina.

What about the theatre?

Did you go to the theatre as well?

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