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 1986, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. A cast away today is someone who for all his achievements in the world of politics

would much rather have played left half for Shefei Wednesday or opened innings for his beloved Yorkshire.

In a perfect world, he'd have done both in the same week.

As it is, he has to be content with the

position of Shadow Chancellor and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. He is Roy Hattersley.

Roy, you're brought up in Sheffield, the old West Riding of Yorkshire a lot of music there

traditionally a place of music. Was there much music in your youth? Not until I went to grammar school

I think there was a lot of broadcast music with a sick

grandmother at home and me having some sickly years when I was a small boy. There was

a lot of listening to the radio. There was that sort of music, but I wasn't sent

to violin lessons that wasn't the sort of

thing that happened to the likes of me in Sheffield but by the time I got to the

city grammar there was a great encouragement to take music seriously and the

cheap tickets provided by the education department for

fifth formers and sixth formers who went to the Sheffi City Hall, was sat on the platform on the

wrong side of the orchestra and actually watch the conductor playing and heard the music for

a few coppers. That's when I first heard serious music. It was the Halli Orchestra

alternate Friday nights and alternate Saturday nights and if you were

lucky when you're in the sixth form you and a sixth form girl went along together for

about nine pence each. So this first choice of music then is that a memory of those days?

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