Hello, I'm Krusty 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 1978, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our cast away this week is a politician, the right honourable Lord Shenwell.

Lord Shenwell is music and interest of yours?

Yes, I've always been interesting, you say, I do know anything about it technically nothing at all.

How did you say about choosing your discs for the Desert Island?

Are you choosing nostalgia, or great artists? I've tried to associate them with my experiences. To associate them

with where I was born, where I lived, where I worked, the people I met, and so on.

That's what I had in mind and that's what I've tried to do.

Where do we start?

What's your first one? Well, the first one is one that's a bit nostalgia.

My mother, rest us all, she went to one of the operas a long time ago I think was the

Bohemian girl and she and she listened to what song was I dreamt tied to Alton Marble Hall and I remember

her singing it and she had a very nice voice. She was not a wonderful singer. She was a beautiful woman who would say that.

And a lovely mother. But I remember seeing that and I would like that song. which feels be lost,

that you long is feel the same,

that you will love it. Will only Oh, I dreamt tightwelt in marble halls from Balf's, the bo Bohemian Girl sung by Jones Sutherland.

In fact, despite that Scots Burr, you are a Londoner, aren't you?

Where I acquired this kind of refined Glasgow Accent, you know, not the rough Glasgow Accent.

I acquired it by living there.

But I was born in London, way back I was 1884, it's quite a long time ago.

You were in fact one of 13 children, I believe, altogether.

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