Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1984, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Now this week our castaway is the distinguished philosopher, writer, and academic professor Sir Alfred

A.J. E. F

Freddie, how well could you endure isolation? Not very well, I don't think.

I concentrate very well when I'm writing, and then I like to be alone,

but I'm not aware of what goes on around me but I think I'm a social

person I think if left to my own resources I should pretty soon become unhappy.

Now you have eight discs to console you. How important is music in your life? It's not paid a vital part in my life.

I mean I care less the music and I care for painting and less for painting than I care for literature,

but I have very much enjoyed popular music I was taken a

great deal to musical comedies when I was a boy with my parents and in adult life I

liked music all very much I very much regret his disappearance and also seen musical comedy I like music or very much regret it disappearance and also see musical come

and I like opera but I'm not a concert girl. How much musical skill do you have

yourself? Do you play any instrument? No I don't have any musical skill. I did fancy myself in my teens as a tap dancer.

It's a fellow style car.

Yes.

No, I taught myself. And I had a vague ambition of going on the stage.

I think I was much impressed by Lady Cantor at that time

or someone of that sort. I had an idea of kind of someone like Danny Kay. On the

whole I think I've got better as things are. Did you have any plan in choosing these eight records? Is it nostalgic or

do you choose something inspiriting or the voices of great artists? How did you do that about it?

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