Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Clive James
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster and writer Clive James.
Favourite track: Baby Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes
Book: Book about how to build a plane out of palm fronds and coconut fibre by Willy Messerschmitt
Luxury: Space invaders
2/16/2017 • 39 minutes, 42 seconds
Placido Domingo
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Placido Domingo.
Favourite track: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Luxury: Video player and cassettes of his own performances
12/27/1980 • 34 minutes, 40 seconds
Arthur Askey
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Arthur Askey.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Guinness Book of Records
Luxury: Piano
12/20/1980 • 33 minutes, 57 seconds
Neville Marriner
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Neville Marriner.
Favourite track: There Is No Rose by King's College Chapel Choir
Book: Life On Earth by David Attenborough
Luxury: Violin
12/13/1980 • 34 minutes, 42 seconds
Jose Carreras
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Jose Carreras.
Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini
Book: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Luxury: Velazquez, Les Hilanderas
12/6/1980 • 30 minutes, 55 seconds
Tom Conti
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.
Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Summerhill by A S Neill
Luxury: Piano
11/22/1980 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
Mark Elder
Roy Plomley's castaway is musical director of the English National Opera Mark Elder.
Favourite track: I Used To Be Colour Blind by Fred Astaire
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Sherry
11/8/1980 • 34 minutes, 1 second
Derek Tangye
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Derek Tangye.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Astronomical telescope
11/1/1980 • 34 minutes, 56 seconds
Catherine Gaskin
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Catherine Gaskin.
Favourite track: String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Story of Civilization by William Durant
Luxury: Piano
10/25/1980 • 40 minutes, 5 seconds
Brian Glover
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Brian Glover.
Favourite track: Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
Book: Card Games by John Scarne
Luxury: MGTD 2952 car
10/18/1980 • 30 minutes, 50 seconds
Sir John Tooley
Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Tooley
Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Sugared apricots
10/11/1980 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
Ronald Lockley
Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and writer Ronald Lockley.
Favourite track: Prelude A L'Apres Midi D'Un Faune by Claude Debussy
Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Luxury: Telescope
10/4/1980 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Andrea Newman
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and TV writer Andrea Newman.
Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss
Book: The Weather in the Streets by Rosamund Lehmann
Luxury: Champagne
9/27/1980 • 37 minutes, 1 second
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Roy Plomley's castaways are producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne and Herzog by Saul Bellow
Luxury: Brandy and a blank log book
9/20/1980 • 34 minutes, 33 seconds
Earl Of Snowdon
Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Earl Of Snowdon.
Favourite track: Swan Lake (Finale) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher
Luxury: Painting Materials
9/6/1980 • 35 minutes, 13 seconds
Renata Scotto
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Renata Scotto.
Favourite track: Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata by Giacomo Puccini
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Silver shadow Rolls Royce
8/30/1980 • 33 minutes, 10 seconds
Tristan Jones
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and writer Tristan Jones.
Favourite track: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Modern wooden yacht construction
Luxury: 12 foot by 8 foot Union Jack
8/23/1980 • 35 minutes, 42 seconds
Stephen Sondheim
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Stephen Sondheim.
Favourite track: Porgy and Bess by Lawrence Winters and Others
Book: Collected works by E B White
Luxury: Piano
8/16/1980 • 32 minutes, 31 seconds
William Trevor
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor.
Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler
Luxury: Grapevines
8/9/1980 • 32 minutes, 33 seconds
Gregory Peck
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Gregory Peck.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
8/2/1980 • 43 minutes, 58 seconds
David Scott Blackhall
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Scott Blackhall.
Favourite track: Our Love Is Here To Stay by George Gershwin
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Perkins Brailler and paper
7/26/1980 • 30 minutes, 45 seconds
Tom Lehrer
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tom Lehrer.
Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Piano
7/12/1980 • 30 minutes, 22 seconds
V S Naipaul
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer V S Naipaul.
Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Teach yourself mathematics
Luxury: The Enlightened Buddha
7/5/1980 • 34 minutes, 46 seconds
Barbara Woodhouse
Roy Plomley's castaway is dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.
Favourite track: Skye Boat Song by Adrian Brett
Book: Talking To Animals by Barbara Woodhouse
Luxury: Mother's ormolu clock
6/28/1980 • 32 minutes, 16 seconds
General Sir John Hackett
Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and writer General Sir John Hackett.
Favourite track: String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: 1001 Gems of English Poetry
Luxury: Six dozen bottles of Chateau La Tour 1962
6/21/1980 • 33 minutes, 51 seconds
Earl Hines
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz pianist Earl Hines.
Favourite track: Trust In Me by Dinah Washington & Quincy Jones and his Orchestra
Book: The World of Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance
Luxury: Physical culture equipment
5/24/1980 • 33 minutes, 24 seconds
Rt Hon Lord Denning
Roy Plomley's castaway is Master of the Rolls The Rt Hon Lord Alfred Denning.
Favourite track: Fantasia On Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave
Luxury: Indian tea
5/17/1980 • 33 minutes, 33 seconds
Natalie Wood
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Natalie Wood.
Favourite track: American Pie by Don MacLean
Book: Poetry by e e cummings
Luxury: Piano
5/10/1980 • 30 minutes, 56 seconds
Lindsay Anderson
Roy Plomley's castaway is director Lindsay Anderson.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 In B Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Les Thibault by Roger Martin Du Gard
Luxury: Mixed flower seeds and a watering can
5/3/1980 • 35 minutes, 4 seconds
Erich Segal
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Erich Segal.
Favourite track: A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy Band
Book: The Odyssey by Homer
Luxury: Stop watch
4/19/1980 • 38 minutes, 32 seconds
Leonard Rossiter
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Leonard Rossiter.
Favourite track: Max At The Met by Max Miller
Book: Three early novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Moselle wine
4/12/1980 • 34 minutes, 20 seconds
Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth
Roy Plomley's castaway is Salvation Army Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Salvation Army Songbook
Luxury: Strong, wooden armchair
4/5/1980 • 36 minutes, 16 seconds
Geoffrey Household
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Geoffrey Household.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Elizabethan lyrics from songbooks and dramatists
Luxury: Claret
3/15/1980 • 34 minutes, 4 seconds
Kiri Te Kanawa
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.
Favourite track: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Cooking knives
3/8/1980 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
Fay Weldon
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Fay Weldon.
Book: Kennedy's Latin Primer
Luxury: Shiny white paper and felt pens
2/23/1980 • 33 minutes, 11 seconds
Timothy West
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Timothy West.
Favourite track: Bagatelle In B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Luxury: Typewriter
2/16/1980 • 36 minutes, 41 seconds
Claudio Abbado
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Claudio Abbado.
Favourite track: Kommt Ihr Tochter by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Writing materials
2/9/1980 • 33 minutes, 32 seconds
Otto Preminger
Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Otto Preminger.
Favourite track: Laura by Frank Sinatra
Book: Autobiography by Otto Preminger
Luxury: Beautiful watch
2/2/1980 • 33 minutes, 4 seconds
Sir Cecil Beaton
Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Scrapbook
Luxury: Cashmere Shawl
1/26/1980 • 33 minutes, 22 seconds
Dizzy Gillespie
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.
Favourite track: Parker's Mood by Charlie Parker All Stars
Book: Baha'i Prayer Book
Luxury: Trumpet
1/19/1980 • 30 minutes, 3 seconds
Sir Peter Parker
Roy Plomley's castaway is chairman of British Rail Sir Peter Parker.
Favourite track: Oboe Quartet in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The collected works by William Blake
Luxury: Gold rail pass
1/12/1980 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
Reginald Goodall
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Reginald Goodall.
Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Luxury: An English garden
1/5/1980 • 28 minutes, 29 seconds
Sir Osbert Lancaster
Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster.
Favourite track: Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Live sturgeon
12/22/1979 • 32 minutes, 8 seconds
Norman Mailer
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Norman Mailer.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Luxury: Stick of the best marijuana
12/15/1979 • 31 minutes, 59 seconds
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom.
Favourite track: The Age Of Gold by Dmitri Shostakovich
Book: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Luxury: Bed
12/8/1979 • 32 minutes, 21 seconds
Charles Causley
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Charles Causley.
Favourite track: The Play Of Daniel Overture by Ensemble Hortus Musicus
Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Luxury: Piano
12/1/1979 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Peter Shaffer
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Shaffer.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 9 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Claude Monet, Dawn on the Seine
11/24/1979 • 32 minutes, 52 seconds
Michael Palin
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and writer Michael Palin.
Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar
Book: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Luxury: Bed
11/17/1979 • 30 minutes, 47 seconds
Marti Caine
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and musician Marti Caine.
Favourite track: Coming Home by Marshall Hain
Book: Glory Road by Robert Heinlein
Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water and bubble bath
11/10/1979 • 29 minutes, 4 seconds
Sian Phillips
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Sian Phillips.
Favourite track: Summer by Alexander Glazunov
Book: Scouting For Boys by Robert Baden-Powell
Luxury: Solar-powered refrigerator full of champagne
11/3/1979 • 31 minutes, 17 seconds
Roald Dahl
Roy Plomley's castaway is children's writer Roald Dahl.
Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner
Luxury: Still, grapevine cuttings and tobacco seeds
10/27/1979 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Rex Harrison
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rex Harrison.
Favourite track: A Lull At Dawn by Barney Bigard and his Orchestra
Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Luxury: Painting equipment for oils and watercolours
10/20/1979 • 30 minutes, 40 seconds
Josephine Barstow
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Josephine Barstow.
Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Luxury: Michelangelo's David
10/13/1979 • 31 minutes, 58 seconds
Wilfred Thesiger
Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger.
Favourite track: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Supply of acid drops
10/6/1979 • 33 minutes, 20 seconds
June Mendoza
Roy Plomley's castaway is portrait painter June Mendoza.
Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten
Book: The Penguin Chronology of the Modern World by Neville Williams
Luxury: Canvases, brushes and paint
9/11/1979 • 29 minutes, 3 seconds
Peter Barkworth
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Peter Barkworth.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat by Edward Elgar
Book: His diaries to date
Luxury: Beautifully bound blank book and ballpoint pens
9/4/1979 • 29 minutes, 34 seconds
Barry Norman
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Barry Norman.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The World of Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Typewriter, paper and a desk with cricket balls in the drawers
8/25/1979 • 29 minutes, 14 seconds
Boris Christoff
Roy Plomley's castaway is opera singer Boris Christoff.
Favourite track: Prendi I'Anel Ti Dono (from La Sonnambula) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: The Poetry by Yuarroros
8/18/1979 • 31 minutes, 16 seconds
Countess Elizabeth Longford
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Countess Elizabeth Longford.
Favourite track: Air (from Water Music Suite) by Handel/Harty
Book: Utopia by Thomas Moore
Luxury: Tapestry making kit
8/11/1979 • 29 minutes, 53 seconds
Sir Ralph Richardson
Besides choosing the eight records he would take to the mythical island, Sir Ralph Richardson talks to Roy Plomley about his early life in an insurance office, about some of the many films and plays in which he has acted, and about the National Theatre where he was appearing at the time.
Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Novels by Henry James
Luxury: Pipes and tobacco
8/4/1979 • 29 minutes, 46 seconds
Dame Moura Lympany
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Dame Moura Lympany.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Book about growing flowers and vegetables on a desert island
Luxury: Wine from own vineyard
7/28/1979 • 29 minutes, 59 seconds
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Roy Plomley's castaways are scriptwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Favourite track: You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin
Book: Teach yourself the guitar and Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Luxury: Cards and a guitar
7/21/1979 • 28 minutes, 15 seconds
C Northcote Parkinson
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian C Northcote Parkinson.
Favourite track: The Old Hundredth by Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Radio receiver
7/14/1979 • 28 minutes, 32 seconds
Glen Tetley
Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Glen Tetley.
Favourite track: Laudamus Te by Claudio Monteverdi
Book: Earthly Paradise by Colette
Luxury: South American hammock
7/7/1979 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Tito Gobbi
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Tito Gobbi.
Favourite track: La Montanara by Tito Gobbi
Book: Flowers of the World by Leslie Greenwood
Luxury: Bar of gold
6/30/1979 • 30 minutes, 34 seconds
Ed McBain
Roy Plomley's castaway is the writer Ed McBain.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Streets of Gold by Ed McBain
Luxury: Whisky
6/23/1979 • 28 minutes, 10 seconds
Irene Thomas
Roy Plomley's castaway is former Brain Of Britain and radio personality Irene Thomas.
Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Score of the opera Fidelio by Beethoven
Luxury: Teddy bear stuffed with tea bags
6/16/1979 • 29 minutes, 33 seconds
Ian Carmichael
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Ian Carmichael.
Favourite track: Adagio (from Spartacus) by Aram Khachaturian
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Paper and pencils
6/9/1979 • 27 minutes, 4 seconds
Sir Robert Mayer
Roy Plomley's castaway is patron of music Sir Robert Mayer.
Favourite track: An Die Musik by Franz Schubert
Book: His visitors' book
Luxury: Grapes (seedless)
6/2/1979 • 30 minutes, 25 seconds
Jack Brymer
Roy Plomley's castaway is clarinettist Jack Brymer.
Favourite track: String Quintet No. 3 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The collected works by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Piano
5/26/1979 • 22 minutes, 42 seconds
Alec McCowen
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alec McCowen.
Favourite track: Gypsy (Overture) by Broadway Orchestra
Book: The Egoist by George Meredith
Luxury: Painting materials
5/19/1979 • 28 minutes, 11 seconds
Peter Blake
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Peter Blake.
Favourite track: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy (from Ulysses) by James Joyce
Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
Luxury: Cement and tools to build a folly
5/12/1979 • 32 minutes, 57 seconds
James Cameron
Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist James Cameron.
Favourite track: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Luxury: Malt whisky
5/5/1979 • 31 minutes, 12 seconds
Edward Fox
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Edward Fox.
Favourite track: Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Selection of novels by Evelyn Waugh
Luxury: Limes toilet water by Floris
4/28/1979 • 27 minutes, 54 seconds
Patricia Highsmith
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Patricia Highsmith.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Luxury: Writing materials
4/21/1979 • 30 minutes, 52 seconds
Sir Edmund Hillary
Roy Plomley's castaway is mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
Favourite track: Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Painting he has of Kathmandu valley
4/14/1979 • 32 minutes, 1 second
Sir Adrian Boult
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Luxury: Panama hats stuffed with barley sugar
4/7/1979 • 31 minutes, 32 seconds
Burl Ives
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Burl Ives.
Favourite track: Horn Concerto No. 4 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: I Ching
Luxury: Whisky (Tobermory)
3/31/1979 • 36 minutes, 38 seconds
Ray Reardon
Roy Plomley's castaway is snooker champion Ray Reardon.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
3/24/1979 • 27 minutes, 2 seconds
Ileana Cotrubas
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Ileana Cotrubas.
Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: History of the whole world
Luxury: Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
3/17/1979 • 30 minutes, 27 seconds
David Attenborough
Roy Plomley's castaway is zoologist David Attenborough.
Favourite track: String Quintet In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life by William Barry Lord
Luxury: Binoculars
3/10/1979 • 31 minutes, 11 seconds
Lauren Bacall
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Lauren Bacall.
Favourite track: My Mistress' Eyes (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
Book: Collected Short Stories by John Cheever
Luxury: Sun tan lotion
3/3/1979 • 28 minutes, 11 seconds
Nana Mouskouri
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Nana Mouskouri.
Favourite track: Girl From The North Country by Bob Dylan
Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Luxury: Telephone
2/24/1979 • 33 minutes, 1 second
Sir Arthur Bryant
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Sir Arthur Bryant.
Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Luxury: Painting of a little princess, by Velazquez
2/20/1979 • 31 minutes, 21 seconds
Norris McWhirter
Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of the Guinness Book of Records Norris McWhirter.
Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar
Book: The National Dictionary of Biography
Luxury: Roll of cloth
2/13/1979 • 30 minutes, 38 seconds
Robert Stephens
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Stephens.
Favourite track: Speak The Speech, I Pray You (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare
Book: The collected works by Raymond Chandler
Luxury: Tobacco plant
2/3/1979 • 31 minutes, 33 seconds
Benjamin Luxon
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Benjamin Luxon.
Favourite track: Sperm In Alium by Tallis
Book: Collected stories by Idris Shah
Luxury: A piano and music
1/30/1979 • 30 minutes, 36 seconds
Elia Kazan
Roy Plomley's castaway is director Elia Kazan.
Favourite track: String Quartet in A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Iliad by Homer
Luxury: 20 tons of pine needles
1/23/1979 • 27 minutes, 59 seconds
Allan Prior
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and scriptwriter Allan Prior.
Favourite track: Never Been Kissed In The Same Place Twice by Maddy Prior
Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Luxury: Looking glass
1/16/1979 • 27 minutes, 9 seconds
Robert Powell
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Powell.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor by Gustav Mahler
Book: Modern English Usage by Henry W Fowler
Luxury: Typewriter
1/9/1979 • 30 minutes, 5 seconds
Norman Parkinson
Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Norman Parkinson.
Favourite track: La Vie En Rose by Grace Jones
Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly
Luxury: Life-size bronze statue of an Ama-Indian woman
12/30/1978 • 28 minutes, 31 seconds
Sir Robert Helpmann
Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Sir Robert Helpmann.
Favourite track: Bailero by Victoria De Los Angeles
Book: Volume on boat building for beginners
Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste
12/23/1978 • 29 minutes, 49 seconds
Dinsdale Landen
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dinsdale Landen.
Favourite track: Sanctus by Gabriel Fauré
Book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Champagne
12/16/1978 • 29 minutes, 12 seconds
Barry John
Roy Plomley's castaway is rugby player Barry John.
Favourite track: Myfanwy by Treorchy Male Voice Choir
Book: Complete Penguin Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Luxury: Collection of assorted balls
12/9/1978 • 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 27 In B Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Blank book and pens
Luxury: Well-programmed robot
12/2/1978 • 29 minutes, 59 seconds
Joan Fontaine
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joan Fontaine.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg
Book: Single-volume encyclopaedia
Luxury: The Taj Mahal
11/25/1978 • 27 minutes, 7 seconds
David Bellamy
Roy Plomley's castaway is botanist David Bellamy.
Favourite track: The Better Land by Clara Butt
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Linen sheets
11/18/1978 • 30 minutes, 45 seconds
Michael Crawford
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Michael Crawford.
Favourite track: Gloria by Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin
Book: Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman
11/11/1978 • 30 minutes, 31 seconds
John Wain
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer John Wain.
Favourite track: Voi Che Sapete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Luxury: Canoe
11/4/1978 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
Jule Styne
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Jule Styne.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Luxury: Picture of family
10/28/1978 • 27 minutes, 53 seconds
Colin Wilson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Colin Wilson.
Favourite track: String Quartet in F by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Travels in the Arabian Desert by Charles Montagu Doughty
Luxury: Supply of Beaujolais
10/21/1978 • 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Noel Edmonds
Roy Plomley's castaway is DJ and TV presenter Noel Edmonds.
Favourite track: Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce
Book: Thesaurus by Roget
Luxury: Motorway service station
10/14/1978 • 28 minutes, 25 seconds
Christopher Fry
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Christopher Fry.
Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Rocking chair
10/7/1978 • 29 minutes, 54 seconds
Alec Clifton-Taylor
Roy Plomley's castaway is architectural historian Alec Clifton-Taylor.
Favourite track: Intermezzo In C Major by Johannes Brahms
Book: Set of the Shell County Guides
Luxury: Bed
9/30/1978 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Alan Jay Lerner
Roy Plomley's castaway is lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.
Favourite track: Mack The Knife by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Luxury: Piano with wife's picture attached
9/23/1978 • 28 minutes, 58 seconds
Cathy Berberian
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian.
Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Box of spices
9/16/1978 • 29 minutes, 28 seconds
Tennessee Williams
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tennessee Williams.
Favourite track: Danny Boy by Harry Belafonte
Book: Poetry by Hart Crane
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
9/9/1978 • 27 minutes, 9 seconds
Gian Carlo Menotti
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant
Luxury: Tarot cards
9/2/1978 • 29 minutes, 42 seconds
Rt Hon. Denis Healey
Roy Plomley's castaway is Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey.
Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Poetry by W B Yeats
Luxury: Oil painting equipment
8/26/1978 • 28 minutes, 44 seconds
Fred Trueman
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Fred Trueman.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In E Minor by Antonin Dvořák
Book: Memoirs by Harold Macmillan
Luxury: Pair of binoculars
8/19/1978 • 28 minutes, 20 seconds
Janet Suzman
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Janet Suzman.
Favourite track: Porgi Amor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Luxury: Mink-lined hammock
8/12/1978 • 29 minutes, 5 seconds
Simon Rattle
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Simon Rattle.
Favourite track: String Quartet in B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The I Ching
Luxury: German white wine
8/5/1978 • 29 minutes, 25 seconds
Barbara Pym
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Barbara Pym.
Favourite track: In The Bleak Midwinter by King's College Chapel Choir
Book: The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Luxury: German white wine
7/29/1978 • 28 minutes, 9 seconds
Rita Streich
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Rita Streich.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 36 In C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Nonsense of Dying by Malford
Luxury: Painting materials
7/15/1978 • 28 minutes, 41 seconds
Jane Grigson
Roy Plomley's castaway is cookery expert Jane Grigson.
Favourite track: Hollowed Stone by Geoffrey Grigson
Book: Notes from an Odd Country by Geoffrey Grigson
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
7/8/1978 • 29 minutes, 25 seconds
Mel Brooks
Roy Plomley's castaway is director Mel Brooks.
Favourite track: Can't We Talk It Over? by Bing Crosby
Book: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
7/1/1978 • 30 minutes, 18 seconds
Dr Catherine Gavin
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and historian Dr Catherine Gavin.
Favourite track: La Marseillaise by Rouget De Lisle
Book: Letters by Queen Victoria
Luxury: Camille Pissarro, On the Banks of the Marne
6/24/1978 • 27 minutes, 50 seconds
Sir Clifford Curzon
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Sir Clifford Curzon.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Luxury: Pill to put him to sleep forever
6/17/1978 • 30 minutes, 58 seconds
Derek Jacobi
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Derek Jacobi.
Favourite track: There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner by Noel Coward
Book: The complete works by Lord Byron
Luxury: Waterbed
6/10/1978 • 26 minutes, 35 seconds
Victoria de los Angeles
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Victoria de los Angeles.
Favourite track: Sound Effects: Birds, Animals, Crowds, Traffic
Book: Poetry in Spanish & German by Raine Maria Rilke
Luxury: The Nike of Samothrace, in the Louvre
6/3/1978 • 29 minutes, 15 seconds
Anna Raeburn
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Anna Raeburn.
Favourite track: Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin
Book: Daughter of the Earth by Agnes Smedley
Luxury: Indian tea
5/27/1978 • 28 minutes, 50 seconds
Rt. Hon. Lord Shinwell
Roy Plomley's castaway is politician the Rt Hon Lord Shinwell.
Favourite track: I Belong To Glasgow by Will Fyffe
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Whisky
5/20/1978 • 29 minutes, 45 seconds
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
Favourite track: Petite Symphonie Concertante by Frank Martin
Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Painting of a restaurant on the banks of the Marne
5/13/1978 • 30 minutes, 27 seconds
Charles Aznavour
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actor Charles Aznavour.
Favourite track: Kalinka by Red Army Ensemble
Book: French dictionary
Luxury: Tape recorder
5/6/1978 • 27 minutes, 15 seconds
Itzhak Perlman
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Favourite track: Ich Habe Genug by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Luxury: Violin, strings and case
4/29/1978 • 30 minutes, 9 seconds
Robert Hardy
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Hardy.
Favourite track: String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: French dictionary
Luxury: Greek sculpture of a female head
4/22/1978 • 31 minutes, 20 seconds
Sir John Glubb
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Sir John Glubb.
Favourite track: Serenade In G Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Other Men's Flowers by Lord A P Wavell
Luxury: Paper and ballpoint pens
4/15/1978 • 30 minutes, 25 seconds
Les Dawson
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Les Dawson.
Favourite track: Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte by Maurice Ravel
Book: Trustee From The Toolroom by Nevil Shute
Luxury: Piece of Georgian furniture
4/8/1978 • 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Felicity Kendal
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Felicity Kendal.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw
Luxury: Perfume
4/1/1978 • 28 minutes, 26 seconds
David Wall
Roy Plomley's castaway is ballet dancer David Wall.
Favourite track: Kullervo Symphony by Jean Sibelius
Book: Book on Claude Monet
Luxury: Carbonated-drink maker and supply of flavourings
3/25/1978 • 28 minutes, 49 seconds
George MacDonald Fraser
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer George MacDonald Fraser.
Favourite track: Theme From The Adventures Of Robin Hood by National Philharmonic Orchestra
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Typewriter, spare ribbons and paper
3/18/1978 • 29 minutes, 56 seconds
Rt Rev. And Rt Hon. Gerald Ellison
Roy Plomley's castaway is Bishop of London Gerald Ellison.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat by Edward Elgar
Book: Music Criticisms 1888-89 by George Bernard Shaw
Luxury: Trombone
3/11/1978 • 29 minutes, 22 seconds
Paco Peña
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Paco Pena.
Favourite track: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro In E Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Collected poetry by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Luxury: Painting of his family by Aurelio
3/4/1978 • 26 minutes, 30 seconds
Professor J H Plumb
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Professor J H Plumb.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Correspondence by Voltaire
Luxury: Dozen cases of Chateau Latour '61
2/25/1978 • 28 minutes, 46 seconds
Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher
Roy Plomley's castaway is Leader of the Opposition the Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Photo album of her children
2/18/1978 • 29 minutes, 55 seconds
Amadeus String Quartet
Roy Plomley's castaways are the musicians the Amadeus String Quartet.
Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust and Instrument-making and Divine Comedy (in Italian with dictionary) by Dante Alighieri and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Projector, viola, radio, paper and pencils
2/11/1978 • 31 minutes, 7 seconds
Spike Milligan
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Spike Milligan.
Favourite track: Yesterday by The Beatles
Book: Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Luxury: Barclaycard
2/4/1978 • 26 minutes, 58 seconds
Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson
Roy Plomley's castaways are theatre historians Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson.
Favourite track: The Ride Of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Book: Photo albums and A set of Who's Who in the Theatre
Luxury: Couch and coconut oil and an ultra-sensitive receiver to hear voices from the past
1/28/1978 • 27 minutes, 46 seconds
Alan Coren
Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of Punch Alan Coren.
Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
1/21/1978 • 27 minutes, 54 seconds
Omar Sharif
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Omar Sharif.
Favourite track: All The Way by Frank Sinatra
Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Luxury: Several decks of cards
1/14/1978 • 27 minutes, 5 seconds
Franco Zeffirelli
Roy Plomley's castaway is film director Franco Zeffirelli.
Favourite track: Les Tringles Des Sistres by Georges Bizet
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Perfume
1/7/1978 • 30 minutes, 47 seconds
Dorothy Edwards
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Edwards.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
12/31/1977 • 27 minutes, 18 seconds
Sir Alec Guinness
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness.
Favourite track: Sonata No. 32 in C Minor (Opus 111) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Luxury: Leather wallet containing photos of family & dog
12/24/1977 • 31 minutes, 3 seconds
Dennis Potter
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Dennis Potter.
Favourite track: Sons Of The Brave by Gus Band
Book: Collected essays by William Hazlitt
Luxury: Edward Hopper's painting, Gas
12/17/1977 • 34 minutes, 37 seconds
Grace Bumbry
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Grace Bumbry.
Favourite track: Impromptu In G Flat Major by Franz Schubert
Book: Letters by Guiseppe Verdi
Luxury: Perfume
12/3/1977 • 27 minutes, 9 seconds
Winston Graham
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Winston Graham.
Favourite track: The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Book of Quotations by William Gurney Benham
Luxury: Exercise books and ballpoint pens
11/26/1977 • 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Peter Ustinov
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Peter Ustinov.
Favourite track: In Diesen Heil'Gen Hallen by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Blank paper and pencils
Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water
11/19/1977 • 29 minutes, 6 seconds
Professor Alan Gemmell
Roy Plomley's castaway is biologist Professor Alan Gemmell.
Favourite track: The Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Book on elementary calculus
Luxury: Paper and pencils
11/12/1977 • 26 minutes, 14 seconds
Richard Adams
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Richard Adams.
Favourite track: Non So Piu by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of The Annunciation
11/5/1977 • 30 minutes, 39 seconds
Wayne Sleep
Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Wayne Sleep.
Favourite track: La Belle Histoire D'Amour by Edith Piaf
Book: Atlas of the stars
Luxury: Poppy seeds
10/29/1977 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Claire Rayner
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Claire Rayner.
Favourite track: Symphonie Espagnole In D Minor by Lalo
Book: Guide to boat building
Luxury: Bath with hot water, soap and towels
10/22/1977 • 24 minutes, 57 seconds
Barry Sheene
Roy Plomley's castaway is motorcycling champion Barry Sheene.
Favourite track: If You Should Leave Me Now by Chicago
Book: Study book of six languages
Luxury: Effigy of Denis Healey and a supply of pins
10/15/1977 • 25 minutes, 29 seconds
Molly Weir
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Molly Weir.
Favourite track: All In The April Evening by Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Book: The Four Winds of Love by Compton MacKenzie
Luxury: Typewriter, spare ribbons and paper
10/8/1977 • 27 minutes, 15 seconds
Louis Fremaux
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Louis Fremaux.
Favourite track: Fanfare by Benjamin Britten
Book: Les Chansons De Bilitis by Pierre Louys
Luxury: Manuscript paper and pens
10/1/1977 • 29 minutes, 34 seconds
Mike Brearley
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Mike Brearley.
Favourite track: String Quartet in C Sharp by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Anthology of English Verse
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
9/24/1977 • 25 minutes, 41 seconds
Michael Croft
Roy Plomley's castaway is National Youth Theatre founder and director Michael Croft.
Favourite track: Candle In The Wind by Elton John
Book: Collected poetry by Rudyard Kipling
Luxury: Still for making whisky
9/17/1977 • 24 minutes, 19 seconds
Robin Richmond
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Robin Richmond.
Favourite track: A Walk To The Paradise Garden by Frederick Delius
Book: Giles Cartoons by Carl Giles
Luxury: Royal Albert Hall organ
9/10/1977 • 26 minutes, 40 seconds
Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dame Daphne Du Maurier.
Favourite track: Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian
Book: The collected works by Jane Austen
Luxury: Whisky and ginger ale
9/3/1977 • 26 minutes, 21 seconds
Dannie Abse
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Dannie Abse.
Favourite track: String Quintet In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Collected poetry by W H Auden
Luxury: Bed
8/27/1977 • 25 minutes, 35 seconds
Deborah Kerr
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Deborah Kerr.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In E Minor by Antonin Dvořák
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Wool and a crochet hook
8/20/1977 • 25 minutes, 2 seconds
A L Rowse
Roy Plomley's castaway is biographer A L Rowse.
Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Christ Church Cathederal, Oxford
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: G. Seurat, Sunday On The Island Of La Grande Jat
8/13/1977 • 25 minutes, 32 seconds
Jessica Mitford
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Jessica Mitford.
Favourite track: Die Moorsoldaten by Ernst Busch
Book: Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay
Luxury: Supply of gentlemen's relish
8/6/1977 • 25 minutes, 13 seconds
Billy Connolly
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Billy Connolly.
Favourite track: At The Ball That's All by Laurel & Hardy
Book: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Luxury: Electrical device to heat shaving foam
7/30/1977 • 23 minutes, 5 seconds
Arthur C Clarke
Roy Plomley's castaway is science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in B Minor by Edward Elgar
Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave
Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio
7/23/1977 • 26 minutes, 43 seconds
Shirley Conran
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Shirley Conran.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Light on Yoga by B K S Iyengar
Luxury: Oil painting equipment
7/16/1977 • 24 minutes, 28 seconds
Clare Francis
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and journalist Clare Francis.
Favourite track: La Mer by Claude Debussy
Book: Volume on physics
Luxury: Fresh-water shower
7/9/1977 • 25 minutes, 55 seconds
Miss Read
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Miss Read.
Favourite track: The Importance Of Being Ernest (Act 1) by Oscar Wilde
Book: The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802 by James Woodforde
Luxury: Exercise books and ballpoint pens
7/2/1977 • 25 minutes, 47 seconds
Jack Parnell
Roy Plomley's castaway is drummer Jack Parnell.
Favourite track: Morning Star by Hubert Laws
Book: Stories by W W Jacobs
Luxury: Armchair
6/25/1977 • 27 minutes, 5 seconds
Derek Randall
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Derek Randall.
Favourite track: The Sun Has Got His Hat On by BBC Dance Orchestra
Book: The Guinness Book of Records
Luxury: Bath with warm water
6/18/1977 • 21 minutes, 17 seconds
Mirella Freni
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Mirella Freni.
Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss
Book: Gone With The Wind (in Italian) by Margaret Mitchell
Luxury: Painting materials
6/11/1977 • 26 minutes, 40 seconds
Sir Oliver Millar
Roy Plomley's castaway is surveyor of Queen's pictures Sir Oliver Millar.
Favourite track: Sull Aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Emma by Jane Austen
Luxury: Sketchbook, pencil, pen and ink
6/4/1977 • 26 minutes, 12 seconds
Marisa Robles
Roy Plomley's castaway is harpist Marisa Robles.
Favourite track: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne and When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
Luxury: Oils and a comb
5/28/1977 • 26 minutes, 22 seconds
P L Travers
Roy Plomley's castaway is creator of Mary Poppins P L Travers.
Favourite track: Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun (from Cymbeline) by William Shakespeare
Book: Thick blank book and a pen
Luxury: Little marble Buddha
5/21/1977 • 26 minutes, 33 seconds
Peggy Lee
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Peggy Lee.
Favourite track: A Walk To The Paradise Garden by Leo Delius
Book: Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood by Mary Strong
Luxury: Picture of all her loved ones
5/14/1977 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Lord Home of The Hirsel
Roy Plomley's castaway is former Prime Minister Lord Home Of The Hirsel.
Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Book: Comprehensive book on birds
Luxury: Pair of field glasses
5/7/1977 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds
David Niven
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor David Niven.
Favourite track: Once More Unto The Breach (Henry V) by William Shakespeare
Book: British army survival manual
Luxury: Bed
4/30/1977 • 24 minutes, 30 seconds
Magnus Magnusson
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster and writer Magnus Magnusson.
Favourite track: Ar Vas Alda by Fostbraedur Male Choir
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Pipe
4/23/1977 • 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Yehudi Menuhin
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
Favourite track: Ach Ich Fuhl's by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The collected works by John Donne
Luxury: Album of photographs of his wife
4/16/1977 • 25 minutes, 55 seconds
Rod Hull
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Rod Hull.
Book: The Boys' Own Annual For 1926
Luxury: Pianola and a supply of piano rolls
4/9/1977 • 26 minutes, 19 seconds
Brigadier Peter Young
Roy Plomley's castaway is military historian Brigadier Peter Young.
Favourite track: Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Book: Large Blank Book With Pencils
Luxury: Ton of treasure, dated about 1642
4/2/1977 • 26 minutes, 26 seconds
Mary Martin
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and musician Mary Martin.
Favourite track: I've Gotta Crow (from Peter Pan) by Mary Martin & Heller Halliday
Book: Around The Year With Emmet Fox by Emmet Fox
Luxury: Scissors, needles and thread
3/26/1977 • 24 minutes, 29 seconds
Jacqueline Du Pre
Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Jacqueline Du Pré.
Favourite track: Piano Quintet In A Major by Franz Schubert
Book: Thesaurus by Roget
Luxury: Pencils and paper
3/19/1977 • 26 minutes, 46 seconds
James Bolam
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Bolam.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Selected cases of French wine
3/12/1977 • 25 minutes, 5 seconds
Oliver Ford
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Oliver Ford.
Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar
Book: Volume on tropical flora and fauna
Luxury: Orchid collection
3/5/1977 • 25 minutes, 53 seconds
Merle Park
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Merle Park.
Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss
Book: Fowler's Modern English Usage by Henry W Fowler
Luxury: Piano
2/26/1977 • 26 minutes, 27 seconds
Egon Ronay
Roy Plomley's castaway is food and wine expert Egon Ronay.
Favourite track: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong by Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Champagne
2/19/1977 • 27 minutes, 14 seconds
John Curry
Plomley's castaway is world-champion skater John Curry.
Favourite track: Concerto in A Minor For Two Violins by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Transcript of the Erhard Seminar Training Course by Werner H Erhard
Luxury: Pencils and paper
2/12/1977 • 26 minutes, 36 seconds
Barry Tuckwell
Roy Plomley's castaway is French horn player Barry Tuckwell.
Favourite track: String Quartet No. 14 In C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Luxury: Family photo album
2/5/1977 • 27 minutes, 17 seconds
Roy Dotrice
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roy Dotrice.
Favourite track: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Book: The Complete Angler by Isaac Walton
Luxury: Evening dress suit
1/29/1977 • 26 minutes, 18 seconds
Michael Holroyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is biographer Michael Holroyd.
Favourite track: String Quartet No 16 (Opus 135) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The High Hill of the Muses by Hugh Kingsmill
Luxury: Waterbed
1/22/1977 • 26 minutes, 32 seconds
James Blades
Roy Plomley's castaway is percussionist James Blades.
Favourite track: All People That On Earth Do Dwell by Benjamin Britten
Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Charles Groves
Luxury: Telescope
1/15/1977 • 27 minutes, 32 seconds
Robert Dougall
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Robert Dougall.
Favourite track: Recording Of Birdsong: Nightingale
Book: Volume on tropical flora and fauna
Luxury: Pair of field glasses
1/8/1977 • 25 minutes, 31 seconds
Kenneth McKellar
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Kenneth McKellar.
Favourite track: Frühling by Richard Strauss
Book: Complete book of world cookery
Luxury: Bicycle
1/1/1977 • 26 minutes, 58 seconds
Charlie Cairoli
Roy Plomley's castaway is clown Charlie Cairoli.
Favourite track: Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup by Nat King Cole
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Champagne
12/25/1976 • 26 minutes, 45 seconds
Sir Denys Lasdun
Roy Plomley's castaway is architect Sir Denys Lasdun.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A book about the night sky
Luxury: Telescope
12/18/1976 • 25 minutes, 14 seconds
Gemma Jones
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Gemma Jones.
Favourite track: Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Armchair
12/11/1976 • 23 minutes, 9 seconds
Igor Kipnis
Roy Plomley's castaway is harpsichordist Igor Kipnis.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 35 In D by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Luxury: Clavichord
12/4/1976 • 26 minutes, 41 seconds
Eric Idle
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Eric Idle.
Favourite track: Cello Concerto in C by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: Compendium of world philosophy
Luxury: Guitar
11/27/1976 • 22 minutes, 55 seconds
Anna Moffo
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Anna Moffo.
Favourite track: Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Piano
11/20/1976 • 24 minutes, 55 seconds
Christopher Milne
Roy Plomley's castaway is the original Christopher Robin, Christopher Milne.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in D Major by Johannes Brahms
Book: Bevis: The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
Luxury: Writing materials
11/13/1976 • 25 minutes, 38 seconds
Anthony Quayle
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Anthony Quayle.
Favourite track: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: The complete works by Edward Lear
Luxury: Magnifying glass
11/6/1976 • 24 minutes, 35 seconds
Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell
Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and explorer Lt-Colonel John Blashford-Snell.
Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar
Book: The complete works by Rudyard Kipling
Luxury: Malt whisky
10/30/1976 • 24 minutes, 2 seconds
Norman Bailey
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Norman Bailey.
Favourite track: Verachtet Mir Die Meister Nicht by Richard Wagner
Book: The Baha'i Revelation by Baha' i Allah
Luxury: Calculator
10/23/1976 • 24 minutes, 11 seconds
Anthony Powell
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Anthony Powell.
Favourite track: Rio Grande by Constant Lambert
Book: A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Luxury: Wine
10/16/1976 • 25 minutes, 15 seconds
Alan Bates
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alan Bates.
Favourite track: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Book: Anthology of Poetry
Luxury: Flute
10/9/1976 • 24 minutes, 37 seconds
Frank Muir
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Frank Muir.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 27 In B Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Harploe Report by J L Carr
Luxury: Navel brush
10/2/1976 • 26 minutes, 9 seconds
Peter Quennell
Roy Plomley's castaway is editor of History Today Peter Quennell.
Favourite track: Adagio In G Minor by Albinoni/Giazotto
Book: Memoirs D'Outre-Tombe by François-René Vicomte De Chateaubriand
Luxury: Champagne
9/25/1976 • 23 minutes, 44 seconds
David Wilkie
Roy Plomley's castaway is swimmer David Wilkie.
Favourite track: John McLaughlin by Miles Davis
Book: English-Spanish Dictionary
Luxury: Painting materials
9/18/1976 • 19 minutes, 37 seconds
Michael Bond
Roy Plomley's castaway is creator of Paddington Bear Michael Bond.
Favourite track: La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf
Book: Photograph album
Luxury: Grapevines
9/11/1976 • 23 minutes, 13 seconds
George Cole
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor George Cole.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in D by Jean Sibelius
Book: The Form Book
Luxury: Havana cigars
9/4/1976 • 20 minutes, 27 seconds
Tolchard Evans
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tolchard Evans.
Favourite track: Lady Of Spain by Capital Symphony
Book: Candide by Voltaire
Luxury: Manuscript paper and pens
8/30/1976 • 23 minutes, 5 seconds
Penelope Keith
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Penelope Keith.
Favourite track: Introduction and Allegro For Strings by Edward Elgar
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Lapsang Souchong tea
8/21/1976 • 22 minutes, 15 seconds
James Galway
Roy Plomley's castaway is flautist James Galway.
Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Poetry from around the world
Luxury: Golden flute
8/14/1976 • 23 minutes, 24 seconds
Melvyn Bragg
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg.
Favourite track: Pa Pa Pa... by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Champagne
8/7/1976 • 24 minutes, 58 seconds
George Guest
Roy Plomley's castaway is organist and choir director George Guest.
Favourite track: In Paradisum by Gabriel Fauré
Book: The complete works by Saunders Lewis
Luxury: Clavichord
7/31/1976 • 24 minutes, 2 seconds
Mel Torme
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer-songwriter Mel Torme.
Favourite track: On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring by Frederick Delius
Book: Film directory
Luxury: Air conditioner
7/24/1976 • 22 minutes
Philip Larkin
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Philip Larkin.
Favourite track: I'm Down In The Dumps by Bessie Smith
Book: The collected works by George Bernard Shaw
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
7/17/1976 • 25 minutes, 18 seconds
Alan Pascoe
Roy Plomley's castaway is hurdler Alan Pascoe.
Favourite track: Looking For Space by John Denver
Book: Gardeners' Yearbook
Luxury: Diary & pencil
7/10/1976 • 21 minutes, 24 seconds
Most Rev Rt Hon Stuart Blanch
Roy Plomley's castaway is Archbishop of York The Most Reverend And Rt Hon. Stuart Blanch.
Favourite track: Bradenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald Fraser
Luxury: Flute
7/3/1976 • 23 minutes, 31 seconds
Philip Jones
Roy Plomley's castaway is trumpeter Philip Jones.
Favourite track: Er Sterbe by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Luxury: Champagne
6/26/1976 • 25 minutes, 31 seconds
Len Deighton
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Len Deighton.
Favourite track: Lierder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen by Gustav Mahler
Book: The Art of Modern French Cooking
Luxury: Darkroom
6/19/1976 • 26 minutes, 19 seconds
Malcolm Williamson
Roy Plomley's castaway is master of the Queen's music Malcolm Williamson.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Lyric Dramas of Strindberg by August Strindberg
Luxury: Puppet theatre
6/12/1976 • 27 minutes, 41 seconds
Eric Simms
Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and broadcaster Eric Simms.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Natural History of Selbourne by Gilbert White
Luxury: Tape recorder
6/5/1976 • 26 minutes, 54 seconds
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.
Favourite track: Fantaisie-Impromptu In C Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin
Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Luxury: Writing materials
5/29/1976 • 26 minutes, 14 seconds
Tony Greig
Plomley's castaway is cricketer Tony Greig.
Favourite track: Husbands and Wives by Neil Diamond
Book: Wisden Almanack For Cricketers
Luxury: Bed
5/22/1976 • 24 minutes, 58 seconds
John Laurie
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor John Laurie.
Favourite track: The Music Makers by Edward Elgar
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Reading glass with light
5/15/1976 • 26 minutes, 26 seconds
John Napier
Roy Plomley's castaway is anatomist and anthropologist John Napier.
Favourite track: Falling In Love Again by Marlene Dietrich
Book: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Luxury: Charles I silver tankard
5/8/1976 • 26 minutes, 15 seconds
Sir William Gladstone
Roy Plomley's castaway is chief scout Sir William Gladstone.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Chinese temple at Virginia Water (JB Pine)
5/1/1976 • 26 minutes, 36 seconds
Glynis Johns
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Glynis Johns.
Favourite track: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius
Book: I Ching
Luxury: Michelangelo's David
4/24/1976 • 25 minutes, 4 seconds
Dr Christiaan Barnard
Roy Plomley's castaway is pioneering heart surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard.
Favourite track: Spanish Eyes by Bert Kaempfert
Book: The Best Of by Hermann Bessmann
Luxury: Michelangelo's David
4/17/1976 • 22 minutes, 32 seconds
John Pardoe
Roy Plomley's castaway is politician John Pardoe.
Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Luxury: Piano
4/10/1976 • 27 minutes, 27 seconds
Charlotte Rampling
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Charlotte Rampling.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Dune by Frank Herbert
Luxury: Ballet picture by Degas
4/3/1976 • 25 minutes, 29 seconds
Paul Theroux
Roy Plomley's castaway is travel writer Paul Theroux.
Favourite track: Vergnügte Ruh by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Anthology of English Poetry from 1400
Luxury: Champagne
3/27/1976 • 25 minutes, 17 seconds
Rosina Harrison
Roy Plomley's castaway is former lady's maid to Lady Astor, Rosina Harrison.
Favourite track: Bless This House by Webster Booth
Book: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Picture called Summer Arangments by Nikolsky
3/20/1976 • 26 minutes, 27 seconds
Noel Barber
Roy Plomley's castaway is correspondent Noel Barber.
Favourite track: Piano Trio In B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Piano
3/13/1976 • 28 minutes, 47 seconds
Vincent Brome
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Vincent Brome.
Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Overture) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman
3/6/1976 • 26 minutes, 44 seconds
Sir Robert Mark
Roy Plomley's castaway is Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Robert Mark.
Favourite track: Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana
Book: The complete works by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Sleeping bag & TV that doesn't work
2/28/1976 • 29 minutes, 1 second
Tim Rice
Roy Plomley's castaway is lyricist Tim Rice.
Favourite track: Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette
Book: The complete works by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Cricket bag
2/21/1976 • 24 minutes, 30 seconds
Luciano Pavarotti
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Bicycle
2/14/1976 • 27 minutes, 8 seconds
Lynn Seymour
Roy Plomley's castaway is ballerina Lynn Seymour.
Favourite track: Abschied by Gustav Mahler
Book: Civilisation by Kenneth Clarke
Luxury: Champagne & dress
2/7/1976 • 26 minutes, 10 seconds
Ronnie Scott
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz club impresario Ronnie Scott.
Favourite track: Lever Du Jour by Maurice Ravel
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Saxophone
1/31/1976 • 25 minutes, 51 seconds
Gavin Lyall
Roy Plomley's castaway is thriller writer Gavin Lyall.
Favourite track: March Of The Bob Cats by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats
Book: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Luxury: Cards
1/24/1976 • 26 minutes, 34 seconds
Noel Streatfeild
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Noel Streatfeild.
Favourite track: The Old Hundredth
Book: Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Gardening kit