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 was once described by a writer on the Times as being the

comely maiden. Now Castaway today was once described by a writer on the Times as being the

comely maiden of modern technology. The dear express on the other hand said she was the

woman that men yearned to find laid out on their breakfast trays like a long Yorkshire rose.

Well both descriptions might be sufficient excuse for welcoming a stint on a desert

island.

As it is, she is hard at work on breakfast time and her own series of documentaries called Scott Free.

She is Sillina Scott.

Sillina, would you welcome a stint on a desert island?

You bet I would Michael.

Right now I would

I would love one but I'm quite a dab hand at islands you know I've lived on one before and I think that if I was found in a South Sea island I would just enjoy every single minute of it.

What is it you like about islands?

I suppose I like them because of my romantic nature.

I like the feeling of being cut off away from everyone else.

And having lived on an island before, I know what it's like.

So once the ferry stopped on the island I was once living on,

in a funny way, you knew that people couldn't get to you.

And so you enjoyed your life.

And I love islands because of that.

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