Hello I'm Kresti 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 1987 and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. Our castaway could justifiably claim to be the person who made the subject of food fashionable in Britain.

When he arrived here from his Native America, he surveyed a gastronomic wasteland.

Today, 25 years on, the improvement not only in restaurants, but also in our

enthusiasm and awareness of food, are in no small way due to him. As a

restaurateur, a broadcaster and writer, his name became synonymous with good food.

He is Robert Carrey.

Robert, I must ask you on this desert island,

I mean, are you going to be perniquity about the food?

I mean, would you require a three-star restaurant to be there to be happy?

I don't think I'm going to find one.

This is true unless it's a very strange desert island.

I don't think I'll be pernickity I think it's going to be quite exciting to find

out just how somebody like me can cope with whatever's there.

I mean a turtle egg if there's a turtle.

Palm oil, I hope, I'm not sure, whether we'll have palm trees on a desert island

or whether it'll be really a desert island with nothing and then I'll be in trouble.

Well what about music then?

Your companion on this desert island music.

Now how are you going about choosing it and what approach have you had to the eight records?

You know, I thought if I'm going to be there forever on this island and no friendly boat is going

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