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 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. On our Desert Island this week is the entertainer Max Boys.

Max, have you ever imagined yourself as a Robinson cruiser?

No, not really. I don't think I'd be very good at either.

I like people. Do you think the eight records would help very much?

Some of them would help and some would even cast me no greater gloom.

Oh dear. Did you have any plan in choosing them?

I thought about it a great deal and the trouble was there could have been about 30 or 40 I think

when I could have been as good but having to choose 8 was very, very difficult. Do you think you've

chosen nostalgicly or because it's music that would last? A bit of both. I mean

Welsh people by nature are nostalgic and we tend to live sad melancholy things.

So some of my songs have chosen are sad songs and songs of longing.

Right, what's the first sad song you've chosen for you?

Well, it's not really a sad song, It's a lovely song though written by a

Scottish folk singer, singer-songwriter rather than the folk singer,

because it would McColl and I heard him sing the song many many years ago where nobody knew it and then a couple years ago

Roberta Flack recorded and became a big hit in Britain and in America and it's this song to me as a songwriter.

If ever I could choose one song I wish I'd have written.

I wish I'd have written this song.

Because it stands up as a poem as well,

some superb lines in it.

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