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 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week are cast away as a soldier, Lieutenant General Sir John Glub, perhaps better known as Glub Pasha.

Sir John, have you ever experienced loneliness? I don't think so, no.

Of course if your soldier, he won't lonely the great thing about soldiering is

comradeship.

Do you think you could endure loneliness? I shouldn't like it, I don't think.

What would you be happiest to have got away from?

Oh, politicians.

All the time.

Does music mean a lot to you? Well when I was a boy at school boys weren't taught music

it was looked upon as rather sissy sort of an occupation and so I never have been taught

anything about music but I've derived a very great deal of pleasure from it.

Did you have any plan in choosing your meager ration of eight records?

Well, more or less chronological.

I started off with the beginning of my career and the records go forward gradually as I get slightly older.

Right, where do we start?

Well, I put the March past of the Royal Engineers first, because I started my life as a regular officer

in the Royal Engineers. The The And the the The Wings the march past of the royal engineers played by the band of the corps of Royal Engineers.

What part of the country do you come from, Sir John?

Well, originally our family came from Devil and Cornwall for many centuries, but my great-grandfather who was a parson got a

living in Sussex and since then we've had three generations in Sussex.

...