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 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. There are two castways on our Desert Island this week, two filmmakers who've produced, written and directed

some of the best British films of the past five decades, Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressberger.

Now together you've made several distinguished films based on ballet and opera so I presume you both have

musical interest is either of you a musical performer Michael no No, not at all.

Eric. I used to be. In what capacity?

To play the violin quite well, if I may say so.

Where?

Mainly in ex-Hungary, now Romania, I was a student of 17, when I was playing in the orchestra of the town and even more important it was that I

could get away from school each time when they were rehearsals and so of course

everybody ends with me.

Do you think gentlemen that your musical tastes are going to differ to the extent of

you are having delivered opposite ends of the island?

What do you think, Michael?

At the moment, after spending a lot of our working life together, we're now living at opposite ends of England. I'm in Gloucestershire

and Emirates and suffer. From your collections in opposite corners of England, you are allowed four records each I suggest we

spin a coin to decide who starts is that all right heads of a Powell and tales for

Pressberger here we go And it's a tale.

Emmerick, what's your first record?

My first record would be

Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude and fugue, number one in C major.

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