Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a download from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

This edition may be slightly different from what was actually broadcast, but it is the only

version we have.

It comes from the British library's radio

collection the recording didn't contain the guest's eight music choices so we

rebuilt the original show by using discs from the BBC Gramophone Library.

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

Full details can be found on the Castaways page on the Desert Island Discs website.

The program was originally broadcast in 1980 and the presenter was Roy Plumley. This week our castaway is the actor manager Timothy West.

Tim. Is music important to you?

Yes, very important.

Did you have any musical training to Do you play an instrument? Do you sing?

I sing a bit. I don't play a musical instrument properly and I emphatically don't dance.

But I'm very, very fond of music and have always been.

Did you find it difficult to narrow your choice down to just eight records?

Very, very difficult indeed, yes.

Yes, it is an awful question of what to leave out and I've just thought of individual things

that have meant something to me at different periods of my life really.

What's the first one? I think the first one stems from a period

when I was very very keen on jazz I still am but I was born at a time when I was just a little too early for pop music and when I was at college at the Polytacic

Region Street we were very much into jazz. It sort of went with quoting Tiers Elliot and drinking that

awful bubbly coffee, you know that one used to get and talking about Tito.

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