Hello, I'm Christy 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 1983, and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

On our Desert Island this week is the Snooker Champion, Steve Davis.

Steve, are you in any relation of the late Joe Davis?

No, I've probably won my most asked questions, and unless Joe Offred was a milkman,

I said, by a usual reply, I'm not known.

And of course, you're too young to have seen him in action.

Unfortunately, the only time I've ever seen Joe Davis in person was in the toilet,

the Benson Hedges Championships, and that was the only time I was in the same room as him.

The only time I've actually seen him play is the recent film that they've dug out of the archives,

and bit disappointed, really, and I was also unfortunate.

I didn't actually get a chance to play in front of him, which would have been very nice.

Apart from Snooker, what are your interests? What about music?

I'm very great music lover. I've got a lot of records at home, which I listen to whenever I'm at

home, which isn't too often, and I have to make do with cassettes in the car than they're always

being nicked, but I do enjoy listening. It keeps the speed down as well, because I've been caught by

the police a bit bit too often for speeding, so now I'm going into things that are a lot quieter,

so I have to keep the revs down. It's a slow tempo, cassettes.

Self-imposed speed limit, I've got. I read somewhere that you've just bought yourself a piano.

Yes, I have. I've got quite a large piano. We had to redesign the house around it. It was quite

funny. It's called a bit of a stir in the house, but I'm at a div level at the moment. I'm useless,

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