Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1982, and the singer and actress Patula Clark.

Pet, you were on this island once before several years ago, and on that occasion you shyly confessed to me that you were

18 and you don't look anymore now.

You're not mentioning the year, are you? It's very gallant of you.

You haven't changed, the island hasn't changed either. I suspect

that your records may have, we'll hear. Probably.

You've done a great deal of travelling. Have you ever visited a desert island? Yes, I have. Have you well? Out in the

Caribbean, and it was amazing. It was just a little sort of blob of sand, really, in the middle

of the ocean and a palm tree. How long did you stay there? About 20 minutes.

It would seem enough. How well could you endure, lendliness?

I actually enjoy being alone. Loneliness. And I don't know. I think I could probably cope quite well,

actually. I enjoy having to cope. Did it take you long to choose your eight

records? Eight that may have to last a long, long time into the future. I don't think it took me

long enough. I've tried to choose them well, but I could probably have chosen them better. But it's

difficult, eight records, not very much. You're having afterthoughts already. I'm afraid so. What's the first one on the

list? Peggy Lee, singing a song called Black Coffee. Peggy Lee has always been my favorite

singer. I think she still is. Not for everything, but when everyone else was listening to Judy

Garland and, I suppose, Vera Lynn way back then, I was listening to Judy Garland and, I suppose, Vera Lynn, way back then,

I was listening to Peggy Lee and Lena Horn.

They were always my favorites.

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