Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1980, and the presenter was Roy Plumley. Our cast away this week is a sailor, a sailor who's led an adventurous life sailing the seven seas

mostly in small craft. It's Tristan Jones. Tristan in fact you were born at sea

weren't you? Yes I was born on a big ship off the island of Tristan de Kooner in the South Atlantic.

Is that something to do with your question then? Right. I was named after the island. Instead of having an island named after me, it was vice versa.

So that'll come later.

Yeah.

And I was in the ship which was sailing from Perth in Australia

to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

And in those days, on a British ship you became a subject or citizen of the next Commonwealth

country that you touched, the ship touched you see.

But the day after I was bomb, the destination of the ship was changed to

Liverpool and so I became British by signal from noise. In fact, you are by ancestry a Welshman.

Right.

Most of your sailing has been single-handed.

Do you play music a lot, tapes?

Quite a lot.

It's my main companion. I can't imagine life without it. I've spent long periods without

music and was very unpleasant indeed. Well what's the first one you've chosen for the island?

I've chosen a wondering minstrel eye. It's my theme song if you like. us now. With the only people, when the Dronilah,

for the whole good now.

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