Hello I'm Kirstie 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 1989,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is an enthusiast. She started her professional life as a photographer and

her passion for the unusual and the beautiful was realized first in books and

later in a series of quirky television documentaries.

Subjects on which she's bestowed her wit. series of quirky television documentaries.

Subjects on which she's bestowed her wit and energy

range from Victorian lavatories and dog kennels

to dolls house food and furniture.

She's also an enthusiastic crusader in the cause of preserving our heritage.

She is Lucinda Lampton. You are undoubtedly Lucy, a woman of many passions. what would you say you were most passionate about

My children first

Buildings dogs and people dogs people buildings buildings dogs. No order for that. The children first,

and then otherwise the dogs, the buildings and the people, but life in fact showing off

buildings and showing off excitements all over the country and that thrills me to an absolute fever pitch day in and day out year in and year out.

But they are such strange things that you wish to draw people's attention to, I mean, an obelisk to a pig in Cornwall or a memorial to a balloon in Bedford.

How do you find them and why are you interested in them?

I'm interested in them because they make me raw with laughter and give me the thrill of excitement of discovering them, finding

them and what could be more delightful than chancing upon the information that Lady Mount

Hedgum kept a pet pig called Cupid and had it tethered to a gold chain and took it down to breakfast,

lunch, tea and dinner and took it to London outings.

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