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 1984 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our castaway this week is a writer, a politician, and a very distinguished lawyer. In fact he became Lord Chancellor. It's Lord Elwyn Jones.

You're a man of many interests, is music one of them?

Yes indeed, especially in the context of Wales and chapels and Handel and Mendels.

Do you sing?

Yes, I sing, I sang a great deal as a small boy. I used to be called upon to sing from

the pulpit in the Tabernacle Chapel, sad songs with my mother and sister in tears in the second row, I tend to look at

them.

Could you face involuntary exile on a desert island?

I think I could face up to it, yes I think so, I've got

reasonable reserves I think to fall back on. You have just eight discs to bear you up.

Did you have any plan in choosing them?

I had a plan based on preference, of course, and on experience and association with the records that I've chosen, and perhaps when we come... and

perhaps when we come to them I can indicate that.

Well, let's come to the first one.

What's that? The first one is Myra Hess, a playing Bach's beautiful song, Jezu joy of man's desiring.

It reflects very much the mood of contact with Bach, who's much loved of course and played and sung in Wales and

there's a special poignancy I think in Marijes's version of it which I'd very much like

to play time and time again in a lonely exile. Oh, Oh, Oh, Myra Hess, he has, geez you joy of man's desiring. Now we've established the fact that

you're a Welshman from where? From Cen

small town in South Wales right at the fringe of the industrial area and the

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