Hello, I'm Krestey 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 1991, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is an industrialist. Throughout his working life he's been

attracted to the strength and force of heavy industry. It impressed him during

his Yorkshire childhood and motivated him during his long service with one of Britain's leading manufacturing companies

Guest, Keene and Nettlefold or GKN as it became

This was the firm that he put back on its feet rising to become its chairman in the

process. Since then he served as president of the CBI, chairman of BSB, and currently as chairman

of national power. But those heavy weight appointments don't tell the full story.

This is a man who might have been a musician instead,

and is still at his happiest when playing the piano.

Only last January he gave a masterly performance of a Mozart piano concerto in the banqueting hall in London.

He is Sir Trevor Holsworth.

It's an unusual combination, Sir Trevor, a love of Mozart and a love of manufacturing.

Have you found them difficult to marry?

Not at all. They seem to have been a natural pairing all through my life.

Really? Because people don't expect to find someone who's a sort of expert on constant velocity

joints also knowing about curle numbers. Yes.

Well, I think it's, it happened, I think that I wanted to be a musician and it didn't happen that way.

But I kept it going in parallel all the time.

But have you ever, you you know played the trick of

inviting a competitor or indeed a colleague to a concert where you just happened to

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