Hello, I'm Kristy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our castaway this week is a most distinguished one and I'm visiting him in his home

where he is in the process of celebrating his 90th birthday it's Sir Adrian Bolt.

Now Sir Adrian you're allowed this meagre eight discs on the island.

Would you prefer to have scores?

Oh, I never thought of that.

I think that's rather a good idea.

But I've been thinking very hard about the records

so perhaps we'll leave it like that with records it doesn't mean that we can all

share them.

Yes, well there's that.

Now what's the first one you've chosen?

In 1914, just before the war, the first war,

Richard Strauss came to London,

and he conducted a program of his own works, the three early

poems.

Well of course they were then only just knew, we call them the early ones now, but those three and the Mozart G-mina Symphony.

And they told me in the orchestra that he spent the first three quarters of an hour rehearsing his three pieces

then they said now let's get to business and he spent the next five hours rehearsing the Mozart.

It was a most lovely performance.

Alas, I'm afraid that 1914 performance wasn't recorded,

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