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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week we're celebrating an anniversary. It's 40 years ago that I presented Desert Island

discs on the air for the first time and my 1,630th castaway is, I'm happy to say, Paul McCartney, composer, musician, and ex-Beatle.

Paul, how well could you endure loneliness, perhaps for a long time?

Good question.

I give in.

Next question.

Right.

No, no, seriously folks, how well could I endure loneliness?

I don't really know.

When I was a kid, I never used to mind it too much.

Since then I haven't actually been very lonely so I haven't kind of tested it lately.

But I never used to mind it too much.

It's quite like getting away on my own.

Can you think of one thing you'd be particularly

happy to have got away from?

Yes, I would say probably people snatching photographs

when I don't want to be photographed. It's probably the one thing I would be glad to get away.

Do you have a big collection of discs? I mean have you kept all the old ones? No, I'm hopeless.

In fact, I wish I'd just actually bought every record I'd made or kept the free copy they gave me

But I never have you haven't even got a set of your own no

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