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

The program was originally broadcast in 1981 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On our desert island this week is a celebrated wartime flyer and a man who's made a

wonderful job of overcoming a dreadful disability.

It's group captain Sir Douglas Barda.

Douglas, you have eight discs to choose for your desert island.

Do you play discs a lot?

No, I don't, but every now and then you know I get a sort of phase for playing things that you've heard of and got a whole of.

And of course, my memory goes back a long time.

I know yours does too, but mine goes back a long time. I know yours does too, but mine goes take a long time. And the sort of music I like is not the classical

music. I've heard a lot of these desert islandists, but look, I'm saying, oh, this is Beethoven's's 550 sonata or something like that.

Well I'm a Bing Crosby chap and my idea of classical music quite frankly

the waltzes of Strauss.

And the first record I've got here is not actually a

Strauss-Waltz which is very similar. It's called Vienna City of my dreams and

it's sung by Richard Taubo who everybody knows of and has heard of. My hair,

my hair, my skin,

my skin, shape, or purine,

pure vie, me as a mons, yes,

the law.

The can't me jus, the vieh, I'm ae, and ae. The vinichth eye shall

by the chattus of the mr way d'er

the l'in'er bla't't't of yu'u'u the l'er, The Vienna City of my dreams sung in German by Richard Tauber.

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