Hello, I'm Kirstie 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 1977, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week our cast away as the dancer and entertainer, Wayne Sleep.

Wayne Sleep is a very good stage name, is it your real one?

Yes, it is.

Sleep by name, sleep by nature, that's what they used to call me.

Oh yes, all that stuff about wake up at the back of the class. You must have had to do all that.

Yes, I still do.

How long did it take you to choose your eight records?

Well, I set myself a standard that I wouldn't choose anything that wasn't in my own record collection,

but then I realized there were 200 records in my own collection so it was pretty difficult.

What's the first one?

The first one is Beethoven's choral fantasya.

Why have you chosen it?

I've chosen it for no other reason than I love the music and it reminds me of

days going about a hundred miles an hour through little country lanes in Italy

don't tell the Italian police and letting the music blare out and just watching the

sky and the scenery go whizzing by. And the It's in great and safe and

to the God and silver rose.

There's a little bit.

There's a little bit of cross and may have both

in the future goals. The Cross and and made the whole world of the nation's

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