Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Quentin Poole
Roy Plomley's castaway is head chorister Quentin Poole.
Favourite track: Mariner Man by William Walton
Book: Novels by Agatha Christie
Luxury: Flute and music
12/26/1970 • 21 minutes, 56 seconds
Joan Hammond
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Joan Hammond.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In F by Jeanne Marie Darre
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste
7/27/1970 • 27 minutes, 44 seconds
Nyree Dawn Porter
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Nyree Dawn Porter.
Favourite track: Brief Lives by Roy Dotrice
Book: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Luxury: Umbrella
3/30/1970 • 22 minutes, 40 seconds
Isidore Godfrey
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Isidore Godfrey.
Favourite track: Symphony in D Minor by César Franck
Book: The scores of the symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Luxury: Piano
2/7/1970 • 23 minutes, 46 seconds
Val Doonican
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Val Doonican.
Favourite track: Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
Book: A Big Anthology
Luxury: Guitar
1/19/1970 • 19 minutes, 21 seconds
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Roy Plomley's castaway is field marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
Favourite track: Sei Nicht Bos (from Der Obersteiger) by Carl Zeller
Book: The History of Warfare by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Luxury: Piano
12/20/1969 • 26 minutes, 41 seconds
Dudley Moore
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian, actor and pianist Dudley Moore.
Favourite track: Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major (Opus 55) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Study of psychology
Luxury: Piano
11/15/1969 • 20 minutes, 37 seconds
Anthony Grey
Roy Plomley's castaway is foreign correspondent Anthony Grey.
Favourite track: Concerto Grosso in C Major by George Frideric Handel
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Book stall in Victoria station
11/1/1969 • 19 minutes, 24 seconds
Raymond Mays
Roy Plomley's castaway is car designer and former racer Raymond Mays.
Favourite track: Love Will Find a Way by Jose Collins
Book: Gaiety, Theatre of Enchantment by W MacQueen-Pope
Luxury: Umbrella
10/25/1969 • 21 minutes, 34 seconds
Henry Williamson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Henry Williamson.
Favourite track: Tristan und Isolde (Act 3) by Richard Wagner
Book: The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies
Luxury: Cor anglais
10/11/1969 • 22 minutes, 16 seconds
Peter Pears
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Peter Pears.
Favourite track: Moonlight (from Peter Grimes) by Benjamin Britten
Book: Tropical Plants and Their Cultivation by Louis Bruggeman
Luxury: Bed
7/21/1969 • 26 minutes, 20 seconds
Evelyn Laye
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Evelyn Laye.
Favourite track: There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner by Noel Coward
Book: White Magic by Alice Bailey
Luxury: Cosmetics
6/23/1969 • 23 minutes, 1 second
Alvar Lidell
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Alvar Lidell.
Favourite track: String Quintet in C by Franz Schubert
Book: Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Playing cards
5/5/1969 • 25 minutes, 29 seconds
Dr Elsie Hall
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Dr Elsie Hall.
Favourite track: Symphony No 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Billiard table, cue and balls
4/28/1969 • 20 minutes, 36 seconds
Hetty King
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and musician Hetty King.
Book: History of the world
Luxury: Parrot
4/14/1969 • 20 minutes, 28 seconds
Sir Alec Rose
Roy Plomley's castaway is round-the-world sailor Sir Alec Rose.
Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Eric Rogers Chorale and Orchestra
Book: History of England
Luxury: Radio receiver
4/7/1969 • 24 minutes, 35 seconds
Alan Pegler
Roy Plomley's castaway is owner of the Flying Scotsman Alan Pegler.
Favourite track: Water Music Suite by George Frideric Handel
Book: Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Luxury: Insect repellent
1/13/1969 • 25 minutes, 46 seconds
Arthur Askey
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Arthur Askey.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Golf instruction book
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
12/23/1968 • 22 minutes, 1 second
Sandy Powell
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Sandy Powell.
Favourite track: Silent Night by Bing Crosby
Book: My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin
Luxury: Violin
11/25/1968 • 21 minutes, 5 seconds
Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger
Roy Plomley's castaway is Senior Director of Music Lieutenant Colonel C H Jaeger.
Favourite track: Suite No 3 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Anthology of modern British poetry
Luxury: Chess set
11/18/1968 • 21 minutes, 51 seconds
Sir Paul Gore-Booth
Roy Plomley's castaway is Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Paul Gore-Booth.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Books by Mary Baker Eddy
Luxury: Piano
11/13/1968 • 23 minutes, 33 seconds
Richard Baker
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Richard Baker.
Favourite track: Symphony No 40 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Novels by Jane Austen
Luxury: Bed
10/28/1968 • 20 minutes, 38 seconds
Marty Feldman
Roy Plomley's castaway is scriptwriter Marty Feldman.
Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor for Oboe, Strings and Continuo (Opus 9 No 2) by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Luxury: Piano
9/23/1968 • 23 minutes, 43 seconds
Louis Armstrong
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.
Favourite track: Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: His own autobiography
Luxury: Trumpet
8/25/1968 • 25 minutes, 4 seconds
Dame Gladys Cooper
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Dame Gladys Cooper.
Favourite track: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Frederick Delius
Book: Anthology of poetry
Luxury: Tape recorder
12/23/1967 • 3 minutes, 12 seconds
Fenella Fielding
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Fenella Fielding.
Favourite track: Long Long Summer by Dizzy Gillespie
Book: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Luxury: French silk-lined leather gloves
6/5/1967 • 21 minutes, 6 seconds
Georg Solti
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Georg Solti.
Favourite track: Falstaff (Act 2 Scene 1) by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Luxury: Michelangelo's The Last Judgement
12/26/1966 • 24 minutes, 14 seconds
Derek Oldham
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Derek Oldham.
Favourite track: Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Insect repellent
9/12/1966 • 23 minutes, 6 seconds
Bill Simpson
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Bill Simpson.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Songs and poems by Robert Burns
Luxury: Sports equipment
5/30/1966 • 22 minutes
Andrew Cruickshank
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Andrew Cruickshank.
Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Book: Journal by Søren Kierkegaard
Luxury: Renoir's The Bar at the Folies Bergere
2/14/1966 • 24 minutes, 32 seconds
Patience Strong
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Patience Strong.
Favourite track: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo) by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Complete works by William Wordsworth
Luxury: Indian painting showing the Crucifixion
1/10/1966 • 25 minutes, 42 seconds
Earl of Harewood
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and musician Earl of Harewood.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163 D 956) by Franz Schubert
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Typewriter