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. On her desert island this week is a composer who's quite infitably does celebrate

his 75th birthday on which we wish him many happy returns, many more years of

composing and enjoying music, it's Sir Lennox Barclay.

Sir Lennock, let's start straight away with your first disc.

What was the first one that came to mind what is a must? Well I think it was the one that we're going to hear first which is part

of the slow movement of one of the Mozart piano concertos, a fairly late one. This movement has now become very well

known because it was used in a film sometime ago I think, but I've for a long time

thought it one of the most beautiful things in music.

Some people object to the best music being used for films, but I think that's rubbish.

I think that the more they can be brought to the attention of people, the better. Oh, Oh, Oh, The slow movement of the Mozart piano concerto in C major, number 21 K-four seven, the Sir Louis, Mary Pariah. Now, how well do you think you

could adjust yourself to a solitary life? Well, I don't think it's all easily. I've never lived alone in ordinary

circumstances, but I suppose one can get used to it.

Apart from being away from your family and friends what would be the

worst thing? What would you miss most? Well it's just a feeling I think of other

people about you. I think it would be very difficult to keep

sane even if one were entirely alone. Now your second choice, did you adopt any

plan in choosing them in the main? No, not really. I just

thought of the things I liked best, the musical works that have meant the most to me, which I felt that I was most treasured in music.

And the order of them, I think when I came to write them in an order, I rather felt them

in that order. I thought that the one I started with was right and

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