Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island

Discs Archive. This edition may be slightly different from what was

actually broadcast, but it's the only version we have. It comes from the

British Library's radio collection. It was

archived without the music, so although the Castaways choices are introduced,

they're not part of this recording. Full details can be found on the Castaway's page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980

and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Our Castaway this week is a singer,

it's the tenor Robert Teer.

Well, more do be happiest who got away from on this desert island?

Quite simply, the telephone. I can't bear the telephone at any price at all.

I'm sure there will be a day when you long before it too.

I'm sure there will be too.

Did you find it a long job choosing just eight records to last potentially the rest of your life?

Well it's not just a long job, it's an impossible job.

When you think of the tremendous literature that music is and the great, great pieces there are, are I mean it's impossible to choose eight

of course one has to so one does so one's chosen today's eight as it were

today's eight could be not tomorrow's eight certainly what's the first one in today's eight could be not tomorrow's eight. Certainly.

What's the first one in today's eight?

Well, the first one really has to be Bach.

I'd like the opening of the Christmas oratoro because I love Christmas

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