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🗓️ 6 November 1982
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive. |
0:05.8 | For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music. |
0:08.8 | The program was originally broadcast in 1982, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. |
0:30.8 | Our cast away this week is a singer, the baritone Thomas Allen. |
0:35.2 | Tom, have you over imagined yourself as a Robinson Cruiser? |
0:38.8 | Not until being invited onto this program. |
0:41.4 | It's something that you hope will never happen to you, I suppose. |
0:44.4 | How well do you think you could endure loneliness? |
0:47.1 | Reasonably well, I've had a fair amount of experience of it, |
0:49.6 | although it's for a timed duration, generally, of going away |
0:53.9 | and spending time abroad in small hotel rooms |
0:57.2 | and being on one's own is very much a part of a singer's life. |
1:01.4 | But rather different from sitting all day on a desert island beach under a palm tree. |
1:06.0 | What would you be happier to have got away from? |
1:09.4 | Hard work, probably. |
1:11.5 | I find myself working rather hard these days, so there might be a respite from that. |
1:16.0 | Did you find it very difficult to choose just eight discs for isolation? |
1:19.6 | Yes, I did. I did it in a panic, finally. |
1:22.4 | I thought I was going to give myself lots and lots of time with lots of forethought, |
1:26.4 | and finally I did it very hurriedly. |
1:29.0 | And now I think I've chosen eight wrong discs, but I hope not the third time. |
1:34.0 | It's a very difficult problem to do. |
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