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 cast away this week is the composer Miklos Roja, probably principally known for the many

film scores he wrote in the great days of Hollywood.

Mr Roger, we are dumping you unsympathetically on a desert island could you endure loneliness I can try would eight discs help I think so

80 would be better oh Oh course. Did you have any plan in choosing this

Well, facetiously I would say eight works of mine, but that wouldn't have been

through because I never listened to my own records.

You don't?

No, I never do.

Because I have 50 records and when I hear them again I said,

why didn't I do it this way? Why is it so fast? Why this? Why that? So I rather not listen.

What's the first one you've chosen?

The first I've chosen is a chacon by Bach. Why?

I started out as a violinist.

I started to play the violin when I was five.

When I was seven, I played in public.

And I grew up with a violin, I wrote two violin concerti one for

hyphids and he definitely played better the violin than I did but the chacon was one of the pieces that impressed me most.

I think this is the greatest violin music.

And I chose a recording by Adolf Bush, not only because he's a great violinist,

but I heard him in Leipzig. I studied in Leipzig at the conservator, you see, when I was 18 18 I was born in Budapest and went to

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