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. Among his many achievements are cast to wait is the author of the standard reference book on English barometers.

This one Wag commented made him a formidable leader because he knew all about pressure.

He certainly showed his qualities recently when he led

one of our most conservative institutions through a series of dramatic reforms. He is the chairman

of the Stock Exchange, Sir Nicholas Goodison.

Sir Nicholas, I should tell the list of the word, in fact doing this interview,

22 stories up in your very imposing office,

on the site of the original stock exchange I think.

Yes, the stock exchange moved here in 181 and we've never moved since.

We did in fact rebuild this building on this site without any disruption to the market in about 1968 to 73.

Let's now talk about the music side of your life because you've got many and varied interests.

I see that you're vice Chairman of the English National Opera,

would that be an indication of where your real music love is?

Well, I'm thrilled to be involved with the English National Opera.

It's a perfectly wonderful company ever since it moved to the Coliseum in 1972

and it was the Sadler's Well's Opera at that time, it has performed wonders and it is our great

national Opera company today singing in English

using largely English singers and that is the culmination for me of a long interest in music. I never thought I'd be interested

in opera. We'll come to that later, perhaps why I got interested in opera.

Yes. But what about the interest in music? Where did that start?

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