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 Plumlee. On our desert island this week is the historian, Professor J.H. Plumb. Does music play an important

part in your life, Professor Plumb?

Yes, I think that almost every day I like to hear something, although I wouldn't say that I'm a concert

girl of great dedication.

Otherwise I like to have it around in the house. Have you any musical skilled yourself?

None.

Except when I was a child, I tried to learn the piano and tried for seven years

and got as far as a bark fugue. then I'm afraid I realize I was not a pianist.

Did you choose your eight discs according to any kind of plan?

Partly, music which in a sense I've been immersed in over the most of my life 18th century music

and particularly Handel who is the greatest of English composers

read in the 18th century and also for nostalgic reasons because when I was young

and still indeed now I adore jazz.

What's the first one?

The first one is what might be called almost my signature tune at the moment,

that is Zadok the Priest, which people may remember,

open the Royal Heritage Television Series.

Indeed.

And of course recorded in the Kings College Chapel by Kings College Choir, which of course is the Home Territory, and also of course by Handel written

for George II, and I suppose I spent most of my life, working life at least on the first part of the 18th century. the peace.

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