Mollie Harris

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 1983

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mollie Harris was brought up in Oxfordshire and her books of reminiscences about life in the country are very popular. For the past thirteen years she has been a regular member of the cast of The Archers, in which she takes the part of Martha Woodford.

In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her fascinating life and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Book: The five-volume works by Anthony Wood Luxury: Union Jack

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:05.0	For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:08.0	The program was originally broadcast in 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week are cast away as the writer, actress and countrywoman Molly Harris.
0:35.0	Molly, which part of the country are you from?
0:38.0	I've got a note here that says Valley of the Windrush, but I'm not quite sure where the windrush flows.
0:43.0	Well the windrush flows through Oxfordshire and joins the Thames also in Oxfordshire.
0:49.0	But I was born in Duklington, a little village which is near Whitney.
0:53.2	Yeah, Whitney.
0:54.0	Oh yes, everybody in Ducklington, I've read, was either in farming or helping to make blankets
0:59.1	in Whitney.
1:00.1	Well, mostly, yes.
1:01.1	There wasn't really much other work there really, except the very
1:04.8	genteel girls worked in shops and the other people went away to a domestic service.
1:09.8	There really wasn't much choice. Well we'll talk about Ducklington in more detail
1:14.1	presently. Let's get onto this question of Desert Islands. Could you endure
1:19.3	isolation, complete loneliness? Yes, yes I think I could for quite a long while.
1:25.0	You have a very small ration of music.
1:28.0	Is music important to you?
1:30.0	Well, it would be then, very important, and I like to hear some music, but it isn't, you know, no, not my life really.
1:38.8	Can you make any music? Can you play at the piano?
1:41.0	Good gracious, no, and I can't sing either.
1:44.0	Definitely behind the door when voices would give note.
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