Hello I'm Krusty 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 1987 and the presenter was Michael Parkinson. A Castaway has the distinction of being the only politician to have held the four highest officers in the state.

He was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary before becoming Prime Minister in 1976.

He's just published his memoirs entitled Time and Chance.

Mr. Cunningham, there must have been times looking back in your career, you've had to

looking, writing this book now, when you must have considered that Paradise Ireland would have been a

wonderful thing to have had now and again but politics is a very exciting life and a very

stimulating life and I think if I had a desert island it will probably only last for a weekend.

I don't think I'd want it to be much longer than that.

Not whilst I was in politics.

Out of politics, of course, it might be very nice to retire and lie in a hammock.

What about the musical memories though you're not taking on the island?

Well one or two you'll find are just memories of the 30s of course of youth.

One or two are related to Wales.

Others are just tunes that I like.

One I only came across about a year ago and I just thought I liked it so much I put it in.

What about the first choice of record then? What's that?

First one is again is obviously the 30s and nostalgia.

It's fat swallow.

I was a great admirer of fat swallow.

There were all those lovely tunes he sang and he had that great gravelly voice

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