Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 35:48:57
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Synopsis
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Episodes
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Elizabeth Harwood
18/03/1972 Duration: 07minRoy 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
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Raymond Leppard
06/03/1972 Duration: 24minRoy 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
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Hammond Innes
26/02/1972 Duration: 10minRoy 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
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Michael Parkinson
19/02/1972 Duration: 09minRoy 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
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Alice Delysia
14/02/1972 Duration: 27minRoy 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
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David Hockney
07/02/1972 Duration: 19minRoy 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
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Stuart Burrows
29/01/1972 Duration: 08minRoy 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
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Christopher Plummer
15/01/1972 Duration: 07minRoy 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
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David Frost
25/12/1971 Duration: 09minRoy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost. Favourite track: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius Book: Set of Hansard Luxury: Paper and felt-tipped pens
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Julia Trevelyan Oman
18/12/1971 Duration: 08minRoy Plomley's castaway is designer Julia Trevelyan Oman. Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Elizabeth R by Julia Trevelyan Oman Luxury: Seeds
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Graham Kerr
04/12/1971 Duration: 09minRoy 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
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Steve Race
27/11/1971 Duration: 06minRoy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Steve Race. Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Dictionary of Musical Themes Luxury: Pair of binoculars
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Alfred Brendel
22/11/1971 Duration: 21minRoy 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
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn
06/11/1971 Duration: 07minRoy 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
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Dame Sibyl Hathaway
23/10/1971 Duration: 16minRoy 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
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Ivy Benson
16/10/1971 Duration: 08minRoy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Ivy Benson. Favourite track: Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers Book: London Sparrow by Phyllis Thompson Luxury: Piano
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Caterina Valente
02/10/1971 Duration: 08minRoy 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
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Mollie Lee
25/09/1971 Duration: 07minRoy 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
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David Shepherd
11/09/1971 Duration: 10minRoy 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
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Sylva Stuart Watson
21/08/1971 Duration: 07minRoy 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