Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On I at Desert Island this week is the celebrated English composer Sir William Walton.

How good would you be at enduring loneliness?

For most of your life you seem to have lived away from cities and crowds.

Yes, I think I wouldn't be too bad actually once I got used to having no Robinson Crusoe.

Now you've got eight records and that's all. Did you find them very difficult to choose?

Not really, no.

I mean I sort of things for my childhood, you know, I thought, what if I sung at that date. So I chose this one of my

SSWest.

What's it called? The wilderness.

Yes, of course, you were originally in your father's choir in the church.

That was in Oldham.

That was in Oldham.

And I sang it there. All the same time. Shall be true in the way. And sorrow and sorrow

and sorrow

shall leave.

Shurve me. Shavly, Shavly Away,

Away,

And sorrow, sorrow in shall be

shall flee, shall be ho. Shalee,

The closing passage of the Wilderness

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