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

For rights reasons we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our castaways the comedian Les Dawson

Les Dawson. Les how do you feel about this Desert Island proposition?

Could you take loneliness for a fair amount of time?

I think so could I have played enough clubs to be lonely. Some of those clubs.

But may I say first of all that it's such a pleasure to be closeted with you in this

technological cupboard and I think that in fact you've given me a common as I heard you haven't felt

and your opening remark was such that for a moment I was thrown there yes I have

been lonely and several occasions and to be a comedian is lonely.

What would you be happiest on this island who got away from?

I think I hate indifference.

I think indifference is probably greatest killer.

Indifferent towards neighbors to indifference to people or children,

whatever it is.

I mean, the whole of life is basically one of being together.

And I think indifference is, it's pretty rotten and I've been married for 20 years and I've had indifference every year,

you know, here in my life.

How did you say about choosing just eight records to last for a long, long time?

Records that would remind me.

What I'd had before or what I'd known before,

nostalgic discs, if you like, I suppose, which would remind me of things in the past.

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