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 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. On our Desert Island this week is the actor Leonard Rossiter.

Now Leonard, life must surely at the moment be rewarding.

A very successful play, television series being repeated, a film on release.

It seems a bad time to send you away from it all.

Can you think of any one thing you would be happy to have got away from?

There's nothing in life I would really like to get away from.

Like any other human being, at times you're bored being at times you're bored and times you're

elated they balance each other out though I think over the years you have eight

records to take with you is music important to you? I am somewhat of an

ignorance I must admit, but when you first spoke to me about this it had a very

curious effect I suddenly very quickly suddenly realized what I really liked and what I

would not particularly be worried about not hearing ever again and I

suddenly realize what I would like to hear again so that was obviously how my choice was finally made.

They're very nostalgic in principle, I think.

Do you pay an instrument?

No. When I was very young, I was in the school choir 500 recorders which must have been fairly horrendous to any of the innocent parents who turn up for the dress.

But I have no musical accomplishments of any kind.

What's the first one you've chosen?

The first record is Alec Templeton's Bach goes to town and I chose this because I mentioned nostalgia. It has great memories of my

youth and I think it's such a witty number and a very, very reverend sort of comment on the master

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