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 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast wears the organist and entertainer Robin Richmond.

Robin did you find it a tough job narrowing your disc down to just eight?

I certainly did Roy and I've got them for various different reasons as we'll evolve

as the program goes along. Well let's start straight away what's the first one?

Well I think I should be very miserable being washed up on this desert island, so I brought along with me my happy record.

It's a lovely thing called the Chimes of Swing. The Oh, the Chimes of swing by David Carroll and his orchestra. You're a London, aren't you Robin?

Yes. Educated, I see at Westminster School, and that was in the days of top hats and morning coat.

Top hats and tailcoats. Yes.

Do you come from a musical family?

No, my father was a doctor. He played the violin rather badly. mother sang she played the piano not too well

but there's no particular music in the family did you take part in the musical life of Westminster

school well not really because I was there at a time when little boys should be seen and not heard and do what they were told, and I had to study for the law,

classics and all that, and I wasn't really interested. It went in one ear and out of the other one.

We'd have a little bit of music like everybody, but nothing special.

You were an organ scholar though in a curious way.

Well, in a very, yes, that was a bit of a fake actually, but we had a private service in the Abbey at half-hour

every morning, and as Big Ben Chime and a half hour, the door was slammed, and anybody who wasn't in Abbey got six of the best unless they had a

jolly good excuse you see and I was a bad start reading in those days I found two

fellows were marked permanently absent because they were organ students up in the organ loft.

So of course I put my name down to become an organ student and the next time they said,

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