Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On our Desert Island this week is the actress and writer Molly Weir.

Molly, did you find it a hard job to choose just eight records?

I found it almost impossible.

In fact, even yesterday I was only down to 12 and my husband says you realize I've got 12 records there so I had to leave Churchill behind and lones Olivier and I can't tell you who else

Is music important in your life?

Have you ever studied it?

Well, I studied the piano at the age of 14.

I think I had sixpenny lessons and I still tinkle away a wee bit, but I'm not really a good pianist. I once played

it like the teacher's concert mind you I don't know how I ever did it but I love

you I really do love music which I'm not really a performer. Could you adjust yourself to solitude?

Yes, I think I could.

I think a writer has got to have a lot of solitude

and although I am a very gregarious person,

I'm also a very solitary person.

What's the first record you chose?

The first record is to waken me up in the morning in the absence of husband or a land clock.

And that's going to be this lovely man, James Galway, the man with the golden flute.

He wakens me every morning at the moment

and the today program. Oh, The Oh, the Tom Borin by Gossick. Now Molly of course you belong to Glasgow.

Yes. Your mother was widowed and I believe the days of your childhood were rather a struggle.

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