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. This week our castaway is the actor Tom Conte.

Tom have you a daydreamed about. Our cast away as the actor Tom Conte.

Tom, have you a daydreamed about being a Robinson Crusoe?

Perhaps the odd nightmare has flashed across my screen,

but it's not something that I lost after.

I know that music means a great deal to you.

How many instruments do you play by the way?

Oh, I play a number extremely badly.

I don't know. I was always able to sort of knock a tune out of an instrument if it was

handed to me but that's as far as it goes really and we've recently discovered that you can sing did you find it very

difficult to choose just eight records I found it easier to play King Lear

and choose it's the most monumental task I've ever been asked to do.

I'm up late at night thinking about it stressful.

Well, we have a list here, a final list.

Yes.

What's the first one on it?

The first one is the first piece of music of music

of which I became conscious, I suppose, when I was three or four years old,

and it's where you walk from the Handle Opera Assembly.

Yes.

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