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

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast, but it is the only version we have.

It comes from the British Library's radio collection.

The recording didn't contain the guest's eight music choices, so we rebuilt the original

show by using discs from the BBC Gramophone library.. For rights reasons we've had to shorten the

music. Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1979.

And the presenter was Roy Plumley. Decorating our Desert Island this week is the international singer Nana Muscudi.

Nana, is that your real name or is it a diminutive or a nickname?

Nana is a diminutive of Joanna.

I was in Greek.

So when I was a little girl I couldn't pronounce you

oh Anna I used to call myself Nana and that became my you know that it stayed

through the years everybody calls me Nana yes.

Did you find it difficult to choose just eight records to take on this island?

It was very difficult, but I think it would have been difficult even if I had to choose 50 or 200.

It's like if you had, I don't know, 10 children and they will ask you,

you get age with you.

I mean, you won't be able to do that.

It's impossible.

What's the first one on that pile that you have there?

Well, I would like to start with a singer.

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