Hello I'm Krusty 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 1983 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. My guest this week is the Explorer and author Tim Severin.

Tim is music important to you?

I have to confess it's not really.

I'm much more interested in fact in lyrics than the music itself. I don't know whether you include that, but I enjoy words and so I tend to listen to words rather than to music.

You've never learned to play an instrument?

No, absolutely not. In fact, I think I've been discouraged from doing so.

Do you play discs? In a car I will play cassettes to a while away at the time and I have favorite cassettes.

On your various expeditions have you taken cassettes or discs?

No, I haven't, but all my crew members always do.

And I like to think that I'm too busy to have time to listen to these.

Now what sort of music do you think would stand up best in complete isolation?

Would you dare to take nostalgic music?

Yes, in fact I certainly would.

That is the way probably that I would

approach the problem.

I'd take bits of music that would remind me

of people or places or circumstances.

What's the first one on your list?

It's the Beethoven Archduke Trio.

And that's really, I suppose, to remind me of the backup that I've always had in my projects.

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