Hello, I'm Christy 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 1985, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Our cast away this week is a very versatile actress.

She does a one-woman show that incorporates seven-nose harmony characters.

She's played in the theatre almost everything including Harper Marks.

It's Sheila Steefeau.

Now, your choice of records is that as varied as your ordinary lifestyle.

Yes, I think so. I think so.

All I did, Roy, because you were about to ask me how I chose them, so I did.

What I actually did was I...

Just about to do no such thing, but go on it.

What I did, Roy, you know, of course, that everybody sits down at home and says,

I'd have, and they make a list.

Yes.

And I've been doing it for years, of course, and I never thought I'd be asked, but they were.

And what I did when I was actually asked was to sit down and I wrote eight titles down

and left them, because I knew that if I started to fuss, I'd change them and never make

my mind up.

So, virtually, these are the first eight that came into my head, and a lot of them

are associated with emotional changes and interesting things that happen to me,

which I have absolutely no intention of telling you about.

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