Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. Our castaway this week is one of our leading showjumpers. He's been world champion, three times European champion, twice an Olympic medalist.

It's David Broom.

David, basic facts. You were born in Cardiff, right?

That's right, yes.

And you farm now in Monmouthshire. Well, used to be Monmouthshire now they give it a

posh dip name called Gwent. As far as I'm concerned it's Monmouth.

Quite right. Now we're casting you away on a desert island. Could you adjust yourself to lendliness?

Oh I think so. I'm very happy to travel on my own and when I'm on an aeroplane or in a train I don't want to talk to anybody else and I don't think that would be too much of a hardship.

Do you play records a lot? Not a lot, no, but I like the radio in the car or the truck.

Well you sorted out the eight discs you're going to take with you to this island.

What's the first one?

Well, the first one is one that sort of gets me going a little bit and it's the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Amazing Grace. Oh, I'm not going to see. The The pipes and drums and military band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards,

Amazing Grace. David, you're the son of a show jumper of course.

Well, my father's in a lot of things. I don't think he'd ever say his

great claim to fame was as a show jumper, but he's definitely been the guardian light behind

me, underguiding light. How old were you when he first lifted you into the saddle?

Well they tell me I was two and a quarter. Could you stay on? Well, I think he cheated a little bit because he sort of adjusted the pram straps or the

high chair straps or whatever it was and fixed them round me onto the saddle and people used to say to him,

you're crazy, what happens if the pony ever fell over?

He used to say this is a Welsh pony, he never falls over

and he never did fall over it as I got older he took away the two side straps and then the

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