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 1985, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our castaway is an actress who's also a specialist in Indian cookery.

It's Madhuho Jaffrey.

But who could you endure loneliness for a long time?

Not easily. I don't like being alone, but if I was forced to do it, I suppose I would endure it.

Is music important in your life? Yes. Yes, I happen to be married to a musician. That's part of it, but I was raised on music. My family

comes from years and years of people who patronized music in the old days. They were patrons of music.

So I was brought up listening to the greatest

masters in my own house do you play an instrument yourself no unfortunately I don't

have that talent do you play discs yes you have a big collection yes I do it's it's mostly my husband's collection. He does the collecting. He's so much better at it, but I keep adding to it.

Did you find it difficult to choose just eight to take with you for a long time.

Very hard because you have to think and rethink why some would help you if you're all alone.

Others might be wonderful records, but for that long period you just

have to think very carefully. What was the first one that you chose? What to talk with

that tile? Here I am. Suddenly landed on this island, terribly scared, I want something that cheers me and brings me a certain

kind of peace. So I thought, handle. That will make me feel a little better. so we have an organ concerto by handle. The Oh, The Oh, Part of the first movement of Handel's Concerto in B-flat, Apis 4, Number 2, for organ and orchestra

with George Malcolm and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Mariner.

Whereabouts in India were born, Madoul?

In Delhi, I was born in my grandfather's house.

It overlooks the Jumna River.

I'm from a family of Delhiites.

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