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 castaway is the novelist Winston Graham. Mr Graham, how do you view the idea of a spell on a desert island?

With a certain amount of trepidation because I have never been able to look after myself very well.

I've got hands which I use all the time for writing because I write in long hand, but there are not much use I would have thought for building a boat or constructing a house or a shed,

and I've never cooked much for myself on my life.

Is music an interest of yours? I'm very fond of music and I never seem to have quite

enough time to listen to it as much as I would want to or go to concerts as much as I would want to.

There always seems to have been in my life something that I've had to do more.

Do you play an instrument?

No, I don't, to my great grief.

When I see a piano I could scream. What's your first record?

Well, when I was a small boy, my mother used to play every Sunday evening,

it was a sort of ritual.

She played at other times of the week, but this was a sort of hour every Sunday, and I could whistle perhaps 16 or 17 of the pieces that she played, but I know only by name about half a dozen and the one I've chosen is the impromptu in a flat by

Schubert which she played rather meditatively and I think that this particular record

it's played in very much the same way. You're going to be here.

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