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

  • Elizabeth Harwood

    18/03/1972 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Elizabeth Harwood. Favourite track: For Unto Us A Child Is Born by George Frideric Handel Book: Survival manual Luxury: Constable landscape

  • Raymond Leppard

    06/03/1972 Duration: 24min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Raymond Leppard. Favourite track: Et Resurrexit by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Iliad by Homer and The Odyssey by Homer Luxury: Gin, dry Martini and lemons

  • Hammond Innes

    26/02/1972 Duration: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Hammond Innes. Favourite track: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by King's College Chapel Choir Book: The European Settlement of North America by Stanley Elliott Luxury: Guinness Book of Records

  • Michael Parkinson

    19/02/1972 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Michael Parkinson. Favourite track: Singin' In The Rain by Gene Kelly Book: Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway Luxury: Typewriter and paper

  • Alice Delysia

    14/02/1972 Duration: 27min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Alice Delysia. Favourite track: C'est La Saison D'Amour by Oscar Straus Book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Luxury: Bed

  • David Hockney

    07/02/1972 Duration: 19min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is artist David Hockney. Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Route 69 by Floyd Carter Luxury: Paper, pencils and a battery-operated sharpener

  • Stuart Burrows

    29/01/1972 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Stuart Burrows. Favourite track: O For The Wings Of A Dove by Felix Mendelssohn Book: The complete works by Oscar Wilde Luxury: Soap

  • Christopher Plummer

    15/01/1972 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Christopher Plummer. Favourite track: Symphony No. 10 In F Sharp by Gustav Mahler Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Jeroboam of Taittinger Champagne

  • David Frost

    25/12/1971 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost. Favourite track: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius Book: Set of Hansard Luxury: Paper and felt-tipped pens

  • Julia Trevelyan Oman

    18/12/1971 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Julia Trevelyan Oman. Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Elizabeth R by Julia Trevelyan Oman Luxury: Seeds

  • Graham Kerr

    04/12/1971 Duration: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is cookery expert Graham Kerr. Favourite track: We Said We Wouldn't Look Back by Eleanor Drew & John Warner Book: Encyclopaedia of Ancient Civilisations Luxury: Wine

  • Steve Race

    27/11/1971 Duration: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Steve Race. Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Dictionary of Musical Themes Luxury: Pair of binoculars

  • Alfred Brendel

    22/11/1971 Duration: 21min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist Alfred Brendel. Favourite track: Prelude No 24 In B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Lieder by Franz Schubert Luxury: Bavarian rococo church

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn

    06/11/1971 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is the former Musical Director of the Royal Marines Sir Vivian Dunn. Favourite track: Praise To The Holiest In The Height by Edward Elgar Book: Autobiography by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Piano, manuscript paper, pencils and a rubber

  • Dame Sibyl Hathaway

    23/10/1971 Duration: 16min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is Dame of Sark Dame Sibyl Hathaway. Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor by Gustav Mahler Book: History of England by Sir Keith Feiling Luxury: Canvas and tapestry tools

  • Ivy Benson

    16/10/1971 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Ivy Benson. Favourite track: Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers Book: London Sparrow by Phyllis Thompson Luxury: Piano

  • Caterina Valente

    02/10/1971 Duration: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actress Caterina Valente. Favourite track: Concierto De Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo Book: Novels by James Mitchener Luxury: English pub

  • Mollie Lee

    25/09/1971 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is Woman's Hour broadcaster Mollie Lee. Favourite track: Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Typewriter and paper

  • David Shepherd

    11/09/1971 Duration: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is painter David Shepherd. Favourite track: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major by Gustav Mahler Book: Volume On Elementary Calculus Luxury: The Black Prince Steam Locomotive, canvases and oil paint

  • Sylva Stuart Watson

    21/08/1971 Duration: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is licensee of the Theatre Royal Sylva Stuart Watson. Favourite track: Gigue From French Suite No 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Volumes on astronomy and astrology Luxury: Forty yards of flowered chintz, a needle & cotton

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