David Cozy wonders:

>On another list to which I belong someone claimed (perhaps with tongue in
>cheek?) that when Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was on "Desert Island Discs" she
>chose for the eight discs she could take with her to the island eight of
>her own recordings.
>
>Is this true?

Yes.  And not only is it true, it is well known and has become a sort of
locus classicus.

Alan Moss