Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986

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Synopsis

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island

Episodes

  • Jilly Cooper

    08/03/1975 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Jilly Cooper. Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Luxury: Notebooks and pens

  • Valerie Masterson

    24/02/1975 Duration: 13min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Valerie Masterson. Favourite track: Symphony in D Minor by César Franck Book: Survival manual Luxury: Beauty products

  • Bernard Hailstone

    25/01/1975 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is portrait painter Bernard Hailstone. Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: In Search of the Miraculous by Peter Ouspensky Luxury: Radio receiver

  • Percy Press

    28/12/1974 Duration: 19min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is Punch and Judy man Percy Press. Favourite track: A Midsummer Nights Dream by Felix Mendelssohn Book: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Luxury: Pair Of Binoculars

  • Angela Baddeley

    21/12/1974 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Angela Baddeley. Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Luxury: Portrait of her husband

  • Oliver Reed

    30/11/1974 Duration: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Oliver Reed. Favourite track: Jardins Sous La Pluie by Claude Debussy Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman

  • Bruce Tulloh

    23/11/1974 Duration: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is long-distance runner Bruce Tulloh. Favourite track: A Felicidade by Antonio Carlos Jobim Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Luxury: Harmonica

  • Denholm Elliott

    14/09/1974 Duration: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Denholm Elliott. Favourite track: Kyrie A 4 by John Taverner Book: Survival manual Luxury: Still

  • Roland Culver

    03/08/1974 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roland Culver. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in B Flat by Johannes Brahms Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Painting materials

  • James Stewart

    27/05/1974 Duration: 24min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart. Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury: Piano

  • Eddie Waring

    25/02/1974 Duration: 18min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is commentator Eddie Waring. Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Bradshaw's Railway Timetable Luxury: Couch

  • Brian Inglis

    09/02/1974 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist Brian Inglis. Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in F by Johannes Brahms Book: The Crock of Gold by James Stephens Luxury: Typewriter and paper

  • Alexander Young

    15/12/1973 Duration: 02min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Alexander Young. Favourite track: Crudel Perchè Finora by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Luxury: Radio-controlled model aircraft

  • Gareth Edwards

    08/12/1973 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is the Captain of the Welsh rugby team Gareth Edwards. Favourite track: Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon & Garfunkel Book: The collected works by Dylan Thomas Luxury: Cornet

  • Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS

    27/10/1973 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is zoologist Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS. Favourite track: I'll See You Again by Peggy Wood & George Metaxa Book: The Prelude by William Wordsworth Luxury: Writing materials

  • Peter Rogers

    20/10/1973 Duration: 02min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Peter Rogers. Favourite track: Sanctus by Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur Book: Bound volume of Punch from the 1960s Luxury: Ninth record: Massenet's Elegie

  • Leontyne Price

    22/09/1973 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Leontyne Price. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: How to be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman Luxury: Soap

  • Bill Sowerbutts

    17/09/1973 Duration: 22min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is horticulturalist Bill Sowerbutts. Favourite track: Les Francs Juges (Overture) by Hector Berlioz Book: English Dictionary Luxury: Tobacco seeds and a brewing vat

  • Joyce Carey

    08/09/1973 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joyce Carey. Favourite track: Introduction and Allegro For Strings (Opus 47) by Edward Elgar Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Box of oddments from her dressing table

  • Bert Foord

    25/08/1973 Duration: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is weather forecaster Bert Foord. Favourite track: Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin Book: Short Stories by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

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