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 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our castaway this week is a dancer and choreographer who's played an enormous part in the development of ballet in this country.

It's Sir Anton Dollyin.

So Anton, obviously a dancer is deeply dependent on music. Have you technical knowledge? Can you read music? Can you play an instrument?

No, I wanted to play the piano. As a very small boy I was learning but I afraid I didn't have the patience

to with all those scales etc. I regret it now very much. No I can more or less read a score.

I wouldn't say a hundred percent but I know the

cotchit and the quavers. Do you think just eight discs would help in that

Desert Island predicament? Well the eight that I'm taking would. What's the first one? The

first one is going to be Richard Taubat. I heard Taubat when he first came to this

country and the land of smiled at Druryury Lane I was with very dear friends and it's a marvelous

memory for me then I heard him when he came to New York when he sang the famous song

that he's going to sing today for me. I think he sang in about 10

different languages Polish, Russian, Yiddish. He was a great linguist and he loved

displaying himself. He was a great show off, Tower, which of course I love too, and a wonderful, wonderful voice. I'll beephe, those only beep,

come it in

sign

so be blown

the time

so be blown the back Oh, he below me back,

then did it tear,

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