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 cast away this week is a writer of short stories of children's books and of screenplays

Ruald Dahl. Could you adjust yourself to isolation on an island.

Very easily, yes. I look for it more and more in my life today.

I hate to say it that I would love it.

How much does music mean to you?

It means a great deal but not in a not in a professional way.

In the old days before I was married I never used to start writing in the morning before

putting on some very great music like a Beethoven

Quartet and sit and listen to it in the hopes that some of this greatness would rub off

on me and that I would write better.

As a matter of fact, it helped quite a lot because it is impossible after listening to great

music to write absolute rubbish.

Do you ever play it as background while you're revising or whatever?

Oh goodness me, no, no. A little hut, curtains drawn so that I don't see the squirrels up in the apple trees in the

orchard the light on right away from the house no vacuum clean there's nothing

did you have any plan in choosing your record?

No, no, no plan. I just went to my record shelves and picked out one becomes, I think at my age, I could say at our age, couldn't I?

Very well aware of the ones one loves most, having played them a lot.

All right.

What's the first one you've got there on that little pile?

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