Hello I'm Kristi 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's the only version we have. It comes from the

British Library's radio collection. It was

archived without the music, so although the Castaways choices are introduced,

they're not part of this recording. 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 Plumlee.

This week our Castawaysaway is the author and archaeologist Jaquetta Hawks.

It's a great pleasure to join you in this lovely country house outside Stratford-upon-Avon.

And the first question is, does music mean a great deal to you?

I think it would be dishonest to say yes, quite boldly,

because there have been long times when I really have hardly listened to it at all.

And yet music is really rather an embarrassing subject to me because I have some faculty completely missing so that I have no memory I could never

reproduce a tune I don't understand the construction of great musical works at all really.

On the other hand I discovered covered very early that I loved

particularly classical music and I really do enjoy listening to it. You were never

put to the piano as a child? I was and it was rather painful to me. I remember chiefly being blamed for

playing with dirty fingernails because I would say plaintively but I was

helping in the garden. Of course you were. Did you play discs very much at her? At some periods we have, but lately not so much, but we do.

Now what's the first one you've chosen for the island?

I thought because I'm always particularly love Mozart with woodwind

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