The My castaways this week are the writers Lawrence Marks and Morris Gran. They've been at the rock face mining for lofts for over 40 years and they've given us plenty of gems.

Among them monologues in the 70s for Frankie Howard, the era defining character Alan Bostard

MP, star of the New Statesman and now the successful revival of their long-running

and much-loved sitcom Birds of a Feather.

Grammar School boys from North London, they first met as 10-year-olds at a Jewish youth club,

growing up to have real jobs in the civil service

and journalism before finally embarking on the precarious business of making a living from putting

words into other people's mouths.

They say we're unusual as writers in that we cover the

waterfront. We've written radio plays, written for the stage and TV, and written the

worst film ever in history and we're proud of that so welcome to you both

you have this clearly successful fruitful partnership are you actually

friends I suppose we are friends we were friends before we were fellow writers, but now because we work so much together we have to

Russia now socialising, otherwise we'd be sick of each other.

Right, Lawrence, how would you answer that?

I would say it's a friendship. I mean, you turn to one another in times of crisis,

although we haven't had many. I was in hospital a couple of weeks ago and it was Morris. said can you come and collect me I'm being discharged and I said no

Bad enough of course that we ask our single castaways to choose eight discs but of course as a painting we've asked you to choose eight discs and I'm guessing it looks like a kind of four four split.

We could have easily come in here with eight discs that we both love, but we chose not to because our musical tastes have diversified over the years and I think

that we wanted believing we were going to be on separate islands that we would

wanted our own music there. Yes you will indeed be on separate islands but we

might come to that later. And Morris I'm going to ask you then to tell us about

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