Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Hugh Lloyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Lloyd.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Anthology by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
7/7/1965 • 21 minutes, 3 seconds
Mary Stocks
Roy Plomley's castaway is teacher and social worker Mary Stocks.
Favourite track: In Tears of Grief (from St Matthew Passion), Final Chorus by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Collected novels by Jane Austen
Luxury: Radio receiver
7/5/1965 • 23 minutes, 11 seconds
Ginette Spanier
Roy Plomley's castaway is fashion house director Ginette Spanier.
Favourite track: You're Sensational by Frank Sinatra
Book: Notebook and pencil
Luxury: Silver box
6/21/1965 • 22 minutes, 28 seconds
Al Read
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Al Read.
Favourite track: Waltzing Matilda by Frank Ifield
Book: Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach you Personality
Luxury: Family photo album
4/19/1965 • 19 minutes, 46 seconds
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Favourite track: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar
Luxury: Skin-diver's mask
4/12/1965 • 26 minutes, 11 seconds
George Baker
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone George Baker.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: His favourite works by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
4/5/1965 • 27 minutes, 18 seconds
Arthur Fiedler
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Arthur Fiedler.
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Binoculars
3/1/1965 • 26 minutes, 26 seconds
Owen Brannigan
Roy Plomley's castaway is bass Owen Brannigan.
Favourite track: Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten
Book: The collected works by G.K. Chesterton
Luxury: Trombone
2/8/1965 • 25 minutes, 33 seconds
Marlene Dietrich
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Marlene Dietrich.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: The Telegram by Konstantin Paustovsky and A Story of Life by Konstantin Paustovsky
Luxury: Mementoes box
1/4/1965 • 19 minutes, 49 seconds
Jack de Manio
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Jack de Manio.
Favourite track: The Faithful Hussar by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Scented soap
12/26/1964 • 21 minutes, 41 seconds
Tallulah Bankhead
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Book: The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon
Luxury: Her portrait by Augustus John
12/14/1964 • 23 minutes, 40 seconds
Frank Phillips
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Frank Phillips.
Favourite track: Etude No 13 in A Flat Major (Opus 25 No 1) by Frédéric Chopin
Book: A Dictionary of Origins by Eric Partridge
Luxury: Armchair
11/23/1964 • 23 minutes, 5 seconds
Reverend W Awdry
Roy Plomley's castaway is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine Reverend W Awdry.
Favourite track: Baal, We Cry to Thee by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Luxury: Writing materials
10/19/1964 • 29 minutes, 11 seconds
Dirk Bogarde
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dirk Bogarde.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Luxury: Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
9/28/1964 • 22 minutes, 57 seconds
Kenneth Connor
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Kenneth Connor.
Favourite track: Little Bit This, Little Bit That by Jimmy Durante
Book: Margin Released by J B Priestley
Luxury: Guitar
6/22/1964 • 21 minutes, 41 seconds
Paul Tortelier
Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Paul Tortelier.
Favourite track: Er, der Herrlichste von Allen from Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann
Book: La Petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach by Esther Meynell
Luxury: Bicycle and cider
6/15/1964 • 21 minutes, 43 seconds
Richard Wattis
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Wattis.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Life of Disraeli by André Maurois
Luxury: Bed
6/1/1964 • 19 minutes, 45 seconds
David Jacobs
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Jacobs.
Favourite track: God Be in My Head by Temple Church Choir
Book: A Hundred-and-One Things a Girl Can Do
Luxury: Piano and family photographs
5/25/1964 • 19 minutes, 40 seconds
Sir Miles Thomas
Roy Plomley's castaway is industrialist Sir Miles Thomas.
Favourite track: Noel Coward Fantasy by Melachrino Orchestra
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Toothpaste
4/6/1964 • 20 minutes, 46 seconds
Wilfrid Brambell
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Wilfrid Brambell.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Scotch whisky and lager
3/30/1964 • 18 minutes, 46 seconds
Leslie Baily
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Leslie Baily.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Come Hither - an anthology of poetry by Walter de la Mare
Luxury: Woodworker Tools
1/13/1964 • 24 minutes, 8 seconds
Nicolai Poliakoff
Roy Plomley's castaway is Coco the Clown - Nicolai Poliakoff.
Favourite track: Black Eyes by Balalaika Orchestra
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Writing materials
12/23/1963 • 23 minutes, 54 seconds
Gordon Pirie
Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Gordon Pirie.
Favourite track: The Very Thought of You by Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra
Book: Gray's Anatomy
Luxury: Motor car
11/18/1963 • 22 minutes, 3 seconds
Sir Charles MacLean
Roy Plomley's castaway is Chief Scout Sir Charles MacLean.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in F Minor (Toccata) by Charles Marie Widor
Book: Volumes of The Illustrated London News
Luxury: Piano
8/12/1963 • 23 minutes, 42 seconds
David Frost
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost.
Favourite track: Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf
Book: The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Luxury: Potato crisps
4/15/1963 • 21 minutes, 23 seconds
Antony Hopkins
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer, conductor and pianist Antony Hopkins.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert
Book: Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
Luxury: Piano
10/1/1962 • 23 minutes, 49 seconds
Ken Sykora
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Ken Sykora.
Favourite track: Nuages by Django Reinhardt
Book: Science for the Citizen
Luxury: Guitar
1/22/1962 • 24 minutes, 31 seconds
Gracie Fields
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Gracie Fields.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Reproduction of Renoir's The Picnic
12/25/1961 • 22 minutes, 51 seconds
Wee Georgie Wood
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Wee Georgie Wood.
Favourite track: Private Lives Act 1 by Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence
Book: Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
Luxury: Writing materials