Tom York

It's my heart that's going to need help because I'm on my own.

So I ended up with Human Voices.

Now, Lilac Wine by Nina Simone has affected me in a way that not many pieces of music in my life has affected me.

What I hear in it is this incredible woman with this incredible voice who takes an old 1950s song and makes it at once dark, but at once light, fragile, obviously on the edge of crazy.

There's something really unhinged about the way she sings it.

And if I'm on a desert island, I need Nina Simone there with me singing this song because there'll be moments when things are really, really dark and you need someone to remind you that they've been through that.

But it's also a song where you can wake up in the morning and rise with it.

A fellow human being suffering and that they are with you and we all share the same kind of feelings and emotions.

All that from three minutes.

Okay then, Tom York, the time has come.

You are off to the island.

You have the books to read while you're there, the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare.

You can also have another book of your choice.

What would you like?

Ah, I'd like a Suzuki book.

It's about Zen meditation, Zen mind, beginner's mind, because I'm going to be spending a lot of time with my own thoughts and I will need to come to terms with them in a certain way.

I'm not sure quite what I'm going to do with the Bible, but thanks anyway.

Well, it's all right.

You've got a while to find out.

What about a luxury item for pleasure or sensory stimulation?