Yesterday I did my first radio interview! 
 
HK's Radio 3 has a Desert Island Disks type program called Give Me Five that goes out on Sunday mornings and for some reason the producer asked me to be a guest. 
 
Shy and retiring soul that I am I'd said "Yes please" and mentally started looking for the songs I'd take with me before stopping to think about why he thought I might be interesting enough to appear. 
 
I know that I think I'm interesting and worth talking to/about but I have noticed that not everyone shares that opinion... So I asked him. It seems that these days the parts of my life most likely to interest strangers are the rock balances that I leave around the place and the fact that I'm willing to talk about having had cancer. I'm happy enough with that. It's certainly a great improvement on the days when my life expectancy and the fact that I looked like Fester Addams seemed to be at the top of the list - even though people were reluctant to come right out and say so.
 
The most interesting part for me was the process of actually choosing 5 tracks to play.  The program description asks guests to pick "pieces of music that that have impacted their lives". 

<digress>Hmmm. "Impacted".  Visions of wisdom teeth and meteorite craters come to mind, but I know what they mean.</digress>

I thought and chose and listened and changed and and got the list down to a dozen or so that I couldn't leave out. Then I hit the music playlist on our PC called 'Favourites - not heard recently' and came up with another dozen songs...   And so it went on.
 
In the end I picked songs that reminded me of chunks of my life and the music I was playing then rather than my all time favourites.. If you're interested you can hear them from here or perhaps here.  If you want to hear the show itself you can listen to RTHK 3 at 8.30 on Sunday October 11th - or wait for a day or to after that and then visit the Give Me Five link I put at the start of this post and play it from the archive.