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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.

With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to helping

you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put together

by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,

check out BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Krista 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 2009.

Music My castaway this week is the actor Peter Salas.

He brings to life a sepia-tinted Britain that we seem to yearn for,

a land of comfortable slippers and anti-macassars, where people with all their foibles and failings struggle to make a decent job of getting by. In his early days, he trod the boards

with the likes of Lawrence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, but these days he's best known and best loved

for the characters he's brought to the screen, the unassuming Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer

Wine, and the equally mild-mannered Wallace in the Oscar-winning Wallace and Grommet animations.

I've been lucky enough to keep going, he says. I've got highly dismissible looks, and I realize

now, though it's taken me nearly 100

years, that my voice is distinctive. I'm very lucky indeed. Incredibly, Peter Salas, it was

1973, I think, when last of the summer wine first appeared on our screens. Interestingly,

the first series wasn't particularly well received. Did you always think there was something about it?

Well, I had done Roy Clark, the author, I'd done his first two television plays, which had no connection at all with Last of the Summer Wine.

And indeed, in one of them, I played a homosexual transvestite.

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