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. On our Desert Island this week is the screen actress Natalie Wood.

Natalie could you endure loneliness for a long time?

Gosh I don't know I when I was a child and as I was being brought up I had very overly protective

parents who never thought I should be left alone even for a moment. My mother watched me like a hawk and

and then I was working you know and they were always

welfare workers and all of that and so consequently I developed a sort of

phobia about being alone I was rather frightened to be alone I didn't know what

on earth would happen you know but it it seemed like something awful would happen.

So then as we tend to do in America, I went into analysis and discovered during the course of the

analysis that I quite enjoyed being by myself and that I was pretty good company and all that.

So I enjoyed being by myself for a few years, but now I'm married, you see, and I I've got kids and even though I feel quite happy

being on my own I'm hardly ever on my own because there isn't time so.

And there's no more need for now.

No, no. Do you have a big collection of discs at home? Yes, quite a few. Yes, I do.

Did you have a hard job in narrowing it down to just eight? Oh very hard yes very hard because then some

people suggested that I should name some from films that I've done you know but

that sort of seemed silly I don't know yes never take any notice of what other people suggest.

You've got to live with them.

Right.

What's the first one?

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