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 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our car story this week is the playwright Peter Schaefer. I know that music counts for a lot in your life.

Do you play an instrument? I play the piano for myself and I enjoy playing it. I it every day but I would stop it immediately

if anybody came in.

I'm sure you're too modest what the first record you've chosen out of this miserable

allowance of eight my first record would be some music by

handle, the ode for the birthday of Queen Anne. For me this represents one of the

glories of Baroque music of which I'm especially fond.

It's both grand and intensely moving to me. T. and soo's. You're in time. Yeah, I'm a lot. of nights divides. The

opening of handles owed for the birthday of Queen Anne,

the counter-turn Turner James Bowman.

You're from the northwest of the country, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

I was born in Liverpool, and I was there for the first nine years of my life,

and then we came south you're a twin yes and

you went to St Paul's school when you came south was your brother with you yes

that I'm actually I've got three brothers I've got my twin and another brother who's now at

Cambridge who's called Brian my own is called Tony. When did you start your

fascination by the theatre?

I think very, very early.

As early at least, I think, as 10 or 11.

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