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. On my desert island this week is the conductor, Neville Mariner.

Neville could you endure loneliness?

Yes, I think I could. I've put up with quite a lot of it in my travels.

Apart from that, what would be the worst thing about a desert island existence?

Is there any particular fear or phobia that it would come to right?

Mosquitoes, I think, is the thing that I dislike the most. I think I've been bitten by more mosquitoes in open-air concerts.

Our island is riddled with them.

In choosing your eight discs, did you follow any particular plan? I suppose really I planned them from my earliest

memories of music making and just brought them up to date as I went through trying to plan out some sort of

programmatic form of life. So where do we start? When I was very young I think at

home which is was in Lincoln, and I suppose the first music I had was at home with my parents,

both of whom were musical, amateur musicians. My mother had a very sweet

soprano voice and my father was a pianist and

and conducted the local church choir and so I got used to falling asleep at night

I suppose with this music going on around me and then in sort of self-defense they gave me a small violin when I was about

five and I was able to join in and that I suppose was the beginning of my interest in music. I was unaware of it at the time, I suppose.

But there never seemed to be any moment where I didn't know what I was going to do. It was I think always assumed after a certain age after a number of local competitive festivals

that I was going to be a violin player.

Well now where do we start? What's your first record?

I would think my earliest memories would be of my father conducting the church choir and inviting such famous people as

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