Hello I'm Krusty 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 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our cast wears the photographer Norman Parkinson.

Now parks you already live on an island, don't you?

A small island?

Yes, I do.

Perhaps it was because many years ago I hoped that eventually I received the final

accolade and be invited on your program, Roy, that I moved to a Desert Island in order to be well rehearsed.

Well not all that desert, it's tobacco, isn't it?

Yeah. How long have you been living there?

Well, we've been living there since 1963.

You have a little farm there as well as a nice

house? Well I have a few acres but it's mostly on the side of a cliff so the few

pigs and cattle we have are usually shorter legs on one side and the other because they have to get about on the hillside.

Do you run your little farm commercially?

Yes, well some years ago I got rather smitten with the idea of a cooperative so that the people who work

with me there I got them some little training I bought one or two of them to England and sent them to Smithfield

market where they learnt to do butchery and that sort of thing. And I also learned that pigs thrive

in the Caribbean, you know, back to the days of the Buccaneers.

Yes, they used to leave pigs on most barren islands

so that they could always come in.

That's right, when they came in for water and to scrape the bottoms,

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