Hello I'm Krestey 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 1988 and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is a man whose love of the past has not prevented him from being very much a man of the present.

He's a historian, a specialist on the 17th century.

He was a professor at Oxford and master of a Cambridge college, but it was as an expert on Hitler and the third Reich that he came to wider attention.

It was he who pieced together the evidence which proved Hitler had killed himself.

Laterly he again became involved in the fortunes of the Fura

when he said he thought the so-called Hitler diaries were genuine.

He is Hugh Trevor Roper, now Lord Daker of Glanton.

Where is Glanton, Lord Daker and why did you choose it for your title?

I was born in Glanton. It's a village at the foot of the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland on the right side of the Cheviot Hills and I'm very fond of it and indeed I'm very fond of Northumberland and particularly

that part of Northumberland.

And are your country pursuits other than your academic pursuits? Well, I used to go hunting and I was very fond of fishing.

I don't do a... I stopped hunting a long time ago.

Can't hunt...

When I look back on it I wonder seems that I was mad.

Why?

Well such an absurd pursuit. But I did greatly enjoy it.

So you could hunt and you could fish on the island.

Could you kill if it meant survival?

I'm rather opposed to killing now.

I don't want to kill anything. I would feed on shellfish perhaps.

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