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 Plumlee. Our castaway this week is a comedian, writer, musician, actor, painter and character and

there aren't many of those around these days.

Mother and housewife.

Yes.

It's Spike Milligan.

How much time do you spend listening to music?

All day.

Really?

Yes. This is where BBC comes good.

Radio 3 is about it.

Without it, I don't think English would know there any classical music

how did you set about choosing your 8 records are you choosing

nostalgia clear or great music or what well it's such a vast spectrum of music it it's ridiculous, you know, I just run my fingers down the index and said,

given eight of those, we've picked eight out very quickly off the cuff.

I didn't take in a great time out of them.

So much good music you can't go wrong.

What's the first one?

The first one is Festiromana by Raspigia, very much neglected composer, but I think this was a wonderful piece of arranging and composing here. And then. Oh, The The The The opening of Raspigi's first Eromani, Arturo Toscanini, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

Spake, it's a well-known historical fact

that you were born in India.

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