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. On our desert item this week is the film actor Omar Sharif. Have you ever

daydreamed about being alone on a Desert Island? I suppose everybody has it

sometime or other because of all the children's

literature and Robinson Crusoe was one of my favorite books and I've often

wondered if I could possibly ever do what he'd done.

Could you endure solitude?

Well, I am, I am a very lonely person, and I don't mean that in a sad way. I'm lonely in the sense that I live alone. I have not got many friends because I traveled a lot and I've worked very hard and I was sort of dis from my country when I made Lawrence of Arabia and

came and lived in Europe.

And I do live in a climate of solitude rather, but I think I enjoy that and so that I think that I wouldn't mind

very much being on a desert island I rather like my own company better than

people's company. Is music important to you?

I wouldn't say it was important in the sense that I sit and listen to music,

but I like to have music playing whatever I'm doing.

Do you play music yourself?

Do you play an instrument?

No, I used to when I was young.

I used to play a very very strange instrument.

I mean one wouldn't think of playing that instrument and that was the accordion.

And one day when I was 16 and I had my first girlfriend and I promised to take her out to dinner and I didn't have any money to take her out to dinner so I sold it and I gave that up.

What's the first of the eight record you've chosen to take with you?

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