Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Moira Anderson
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Moira Anderson.
Favourite track: Dr MacLeod's Fancy by John Ellis & Highland Country Dance Band
Book: Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell
Luxury: Bathroom suite
12/13/1969 • 6 minutes, 10 seconds
Lillian Board
Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Lillian Board.
Favourite track: Theme From Zorba the Greek by Theodorakis
Book: Family photograph album
Luxury: Bed
11/29/1969 • 8 minutes, 37 seconds
Irmgard Seefried
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Irmgard Seefried.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major (Opus 61) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Herr, Hier Bin Ich (Prayers of Life)
Luxury: String of pearls
11/22/1969 • 7 minutes, 52 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
Cliff Morgan
Roy Plomley's castaway is rugby player Cliff Morgan.
Favourite track: Westminster (Narration with Sound Effects) by Hywel Davies
Book: Teach-yourself encyclopaedia
Luxury: Piano
9/27/1969 • 7 minutes, 35 seconds
Des O'Connor
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actor Des O'Connor.
Favourite track: Caught in the Act by Victor Borge
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Daily delivery of The Sporting Life
9/1/1969 • 3 minutes, 28 seconds
Olivia Manning
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist Olivia Manning.
Favourite track: The Swan of Tuonela (Opus 22 No 2) by Jean Sibelius
Book: Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson
Luxury: Clue to buried treasure
8/25/1969 • 7 minutes, 38 seconds
Rachael Heyhoe
Roy Plomley's castaway is women's cricket captain Rachael Heyhoe.
Favourite track: Nursery School by Joyce Grenfell
Book: Book on desert island cookery
Luxury: Ukelele
7/28/1969 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
Vincent Price
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Vincent Price.
Favourite track: America the Beautiful by Vincent Price
Book: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Luxury: Double bed
7/14/1969 • 4 minutes, 34 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
Lady Diana Cooper
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actress Lady Diana Cooper.
Favourite track: Die Walkure - Wotan Puts Brunnhilde to Sleep by Richard Wagner
Book: Volumes of her autobiography
Luxury: Bag of pillows, in which she will smuggle in her dog
3/24/1969 • 20 minutes, 50 seconds
Mary Wilson
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Mary Wilson.
Favourite track: Faust (Final Chorus) by Charles Gounod
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Luxury: Make-up set, mirror and comb
3/10/1969 • 9 minutes, 13 seconds
Edward Downes
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Edward Downes.
Favourite track: Bailero by Mardeleine Grey
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Chinese language course
2/17/1969 • 9 minutes, 43 seconds
Lord David Cecil
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Lord David Cecil.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Donatello's great altar in St Anthony's Church, Padua
2/3/1969 • 6 minutes, 19 seconds
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Maggie Fitzgibbon.
Favourite track: Paddlin' Madelin' Home by Graham 'Smacka' Fitzgibbon
Book: The Birdman of Alcatraz by Robert Stroud
Luxury: Alabaster cherub
1/27/1969 • 6 minutes, 47 seconds
Rosea Kemp
Roy Plomley's castaway is weather forecaster Rosea Kemp.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Enquire Within Upon Everything
Luxury: Four poster bed
12/25/1968 • 5 minutes, 7 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
Billy Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Billy Russell.
Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Gracie Fields
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Painting materials
10/7/1968 • 5 minutes, 21 seconds
Richard Rodney Bennett
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
Favourite track: Jeux by Claude Debussy
Book: The Atlantic Book by Edith Sitwell
Luxury: Piano
9/9/1968 • 6 minutes, 28 seconds
Carlo Maria Giulini
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Carlo Maria Giulini.
Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Mirror of Perfection - The Praise of Created Things by St Francis of Assisi
8/19/1968 • 15 minutes, 24 seconds
Eleanor Bron
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Eleanor Bron.
Favourite track: Im Fruhling by Franz Schubert
Book: Bi-lingual edition by Homer
Luxury: Sycamore trees
6/24/1968 • 4 minutes, 48 seconds
Sir Gordon Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Sir Gordon Russell.
Favourite track: Water Music Suite by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Luxury: Claret
6/3/1968 • 10 minutes, 5 seconds
Trevor Nunn
Roy Plomley's castaway is Royal Shakespeare Company Director Trevor Nunn.
Favourite track: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel
Book: Yoga manual
Luxury: Kingsize cigarette
5/20/1968 • 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Dame Maggie Teyte
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Dame Maggie Teyte.
4/15/1968 • 17 minutes, 52 seconds
Russell Braddon
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Russell Braddon.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: History of the World
Luxury: Red ink
4/8/1968 • 13 minutes, 26 seconds
Alfie Bass
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alfie Bass.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Encyclopaedia
4/1/1968 • 4 minutes, 8 seconds
Susan Hampshire
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Susan Hampshire.
Favourite track: Paris au Mois d'Aout by Charles Aznavour
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Painting, or a 16th-century patch box
2/3/1968 • 5 minutes, 41 seconds
John Mortimer
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright and barrister John Mortimer.
Favourite track: Voi Che Sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Marble bath with constant hot water
1/20/1968 • 10 minutes, 40 seconds
Jacques Loussier
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Jacques Loussier.
Favourite track: Come Thou, the World's Redeemer (Choral Prelude) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Men, Beasts and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Luxury: Painting of the Crucifixion by Salvador Dali
11/25/1967 • 5 minutes, 2 seconds
Irene Worth
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Irene Worth.
Favourite track: Five Pieces for Orchestra No.1 by Arnold Schoenberg
Book: Textbook on anthropology
Luxury: The Beatles new colour television show
11/18/1967 • 6 minutes, 58 seconds
Denis Matthews
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist Denis Matthews.
Favourite track: Quartet in C Sharp Minor (Opus 131) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer
Luxury: Telescope
10/30/1967 • 3 minutes, 36 seconds
Professor Sir Denis Brogan
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and broadcaster Professor Sir Denis Brogan.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: Works by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Writing materials
10/21/1967 • 2 minutes, 47 seconds
Doris Arnold
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Doris Arnold.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Luxury: Mink coat
9/25/1967 • 4 minutes, 10 seconds
Lord Ritchie-Calder
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Lord Ritchie-Calder.
Favourite track: J'Attendrai by Jean Sablon
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Tape recorder
6/26/1967 • 9 minutes, 6 seconds
John Barry
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer and conductor John Barry.
Favourite track: The Crusaders in Pskov from Alexander Nevsky, Opus 78 by Sergei Prokofiev
Book: Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
Luxury: Piano
5/22/1967 • 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Very Reverend Dr W R Matthews
Roy Plomley's castaway is the Dean of St Paul's, the Very Reverend Dr W R Matthews.
Favourite track: Gloria in Excelsis (from Mass in D) by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: Republic by Plato
Luxury: Beginner's guide to making rafts
5/1/1967 • 7 minutes, 56 seconds
John Schlesinger
Roy Plomley's castaway is film director John Schlesinger.
Favourite track: Morgen (Opus 27 No 4) by Richard Strauss
Book: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Luxury: Insect repellent
4/10/1967 • 2 minutes, 26 seconds
Rolf Harris
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician, artist and broadcaster Rolf Harris.
Favourite track: Matila by Yves Montand
Book: Dusty by Frank Dalby Davison
Luxury: Two tape recorders
4/3/1967 • 4 minutes, 19 seconds
Dick Francis
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and journalist Dick Francis.
Favourite track: I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett
Book: The Spirit of St Louis by Charles Lindbergh
Luxury: Mirror
3/27/1967 • 9 minutes, 9 seconds
Barry Briggs
Roy Plomley's castaway is world speedway champion Barry Briggs.
Favourite track: You Oughta be in Pictures by Ray Conniff & Billy Butterfield
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Surfboard
3/13/1967 • 5 minutes, 12 seconds
Richard Goolden
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Goolden.
Favourite track: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Marlene Dietrich
Book: The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Luxury: Cigars and a dinner jacket
1/23/1967 • 4 minutes, 31 seconds
Gwendoline Kirby
Roy Plomley's castaway is Matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital Gwendoline Kirby.
Favourite track: The Lord is My Shepherd (Brother James's Air) by The Orpington Junior Singers
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Field glasses
12/24/1966 • 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Jack Brabham
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jack Brabham.
Favourite track: Our Love is Here to Stay by Nat King Cole
Book: Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering
Luxury: Not required
12/19/1966 • 11 minutes, 34 seconds
Captain John Ridgway & Sargeant Chay Blyth
Roy Plomley's castaways are rowers John Ridgway & Chay Blyth.
Favourite track: Sinfonia Antarctica by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: Dictionary and Anthology of poetry
Luxury: Shaving kit and a leather armchair
12/5/1966 • 22 minutes, 2 seconds
Jacques Brunius
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Jacques Brunius.
Favourite track: West End Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
Book: Complete works by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Broken and unplayable pop record
10/17/1966 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
Nina & Frederick
Roy Plomley's castaways are singers Nina & Frederick.
Favourite track: Qual cor, qual cor tradisti by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: I Ching and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Harp and a flute
6/13/1966 • 5 minutes, 56 seconds
Henry Cooper
Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper.
Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Book: Do-it-yourself manual
Luxury: Training gear
5/16/1966 • 7 minutes, 5 seconds
Bob & Alf Pearson
Roy Plomley's castaways are duettists Bob & Alf Pearson.
Favourite track: Tiger Rag
Book: ABC Railway Timetable and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Seeds and a piano
4/25/1966 • 5 minutes, 19 seconds
Terry Scott
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and actor Terry Scott.
Favourite track: The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: French language course
Luxury: Eau de Cologne
4/11/1966 • 5 minutes, 34 seconds
G O Nickalls
Roy Plomley's castaway is rower G O Nickalls.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Pear's Cyclopaedia
Luxury: Rembrandt's Titus
3/21/1966 • 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Sir Frank Francis
Roy Plomley's castaway is British Museum Director Sir Frank Francis.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope and the Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
3/14/1966 • 3 minutes, 40 seconds
Marie Collier
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Marie Collier.
Favourite track: Sheherazade by Maurice Ravel
Book: Mrs Mackintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young
Luxury: Etruscan frieze of horses
2/21/1966 • 15 minutes, 20 seconds
Jimmy Shand
Roy Plomley's castaway is dance band leader Jimmy Shand.
Favourite track: Welcome Christmas Morning by Jimmy Shand and his Band
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Tin whistle
1/1/1966 • 7 minutes, 1 second
Nadia Nerina
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Nadia Nerina.
Favourite track: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (No 30) by Benjamin Britten
Book: Illustrated book on Greek mythology
Luxury: Piece of sculpture
10/18/1965 • 7 minutes, 52 seconds
Rae Jenkins
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Rae Jenkins.
Favourite track: All the Things You Are by André Kostelanetz Orchestra
Book: The Way of a Trout with a Fly by G E M Skues
Luxury: Fly-tying materials
9/6/1965 • 7 minutes, 32 seconds
Ambrose
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Bert Ambrose.
Favourite track: The Moon was Yellow by Ambrose and his Orchestra
Book: The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
Luxury: Tea bags
8/2/1965 • 7 minutes, 3 seconds
Annie Ross
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz singer Annie Ross.
Favourite track: Good Morning, Heartache by Billie Holiday
Book: The Sun is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen
Luxury: False eyelashes
7/26/1965 • 5 minutes, 25 seconds
Sir Lewis Casson
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and director Sir Lewis Casson.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Luxury: Recorder and the 1912 portrait of Dame Sybil Thorndike
7/12/1965 • 2 minutes, 9 seconds
Joseph Szigeti
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Joseph Szigeti.
Book: Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley
Luxury: Pictures
5/31/1965 • 11 minutes, 41 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
Anatole de Grunwald
Roy Plomley's castaway is film producer Anatole de Grunwald.
Favourite track: The Way to the Stars by Two Cities Symphony
Book: Golfing stories by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Caviar
3/29/1965 • 2 minutes
Sir Paul Dukes
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and writer Sir Paul Dukes.
Favourite track: Rhythmic Headstand by Sir Paul Dukes
Book: The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
Luxury: Soap
2/22/1965 • 10 minutes, 23 seconds
Gale Pedrick
Roy Plomley's castaway is author and scriptwriter Gale Pedrick.
Favourite track: Flowers by Hermione Gingold
Book: Who's Who
Luxury: Writing materials
2/15/1965 • 9 minutes, 33 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
Cilla Black
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Cilla Black.
Favourite track: Anyone Who Had a Heart by Cilla Black
Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Mona Lisa
8/24/1964 • 8 minutes, 17 seconds
Percy Merriman
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert performer Percy Merriman.
Favourite track: Route March by Roosters Concert Party and Military Band
Book: Dictionary of National Biography
Luxury: Field glasses
8/17/1964 • 3 minutes, 41 seconds
Dame Edith Evans
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Dame Edith Evans.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Luxury: Photographs
5/18/1964 • 14 minutes, 29 seconds
Jim Clark
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jim Clark.
Favourite track: The Party's Over by Peggy Lee
Book: At the Wheel by Jim Clark
Luxury: Radio receiver
5/4/1964 • 5 minutes, 19 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
Norman Shelley
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Norman Shelley.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Painting materials
10/19/1963 • 8 minutes, 7 seconds
Sophie Tucker
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Sophie Tucker.
Favourite track: The Garden of Eden by Frankie Vaughan
Book: The Conversion of Charlie Cohen by Herbert Tarr
Luxury: Make-up
9/2/1963 • 6 minutes, 18 seconds
Ian Fleming
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ian Fleming.
Favourite track: The Darktown Strutters Ball by Joe Fingers Carr
Book: War and Peace in German by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
8/5/1963 • 9 minutes, 33 seconds
Carleton Hobbs
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Carleton Hobbs.
Favourite track: C'est Le Destin Peut-Etre by Oscar Straus
Book: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Radio receiver
7/27/1963 • 6 minutes, 51 seconds
Ken Dodd
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Ken Dodd.
Favourite track: The Floral Dance by Peter Dawson
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Tea
7/13/1963 • 7 minutes, 51 seconds
Juliette Greco
Roy Plomley's castaway is cabaret singer Juliette Greco.
Favourite track: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Atlas
Luxury: Writing materials
7/8/1963 • 5 minutes, 42 seconds
Barry Bucknell
Roy Plomley's castaway is presenter Barry Bucknell.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Anthology of world poetry
Luxury: Toilet set
6/3/1963 • 4 minutes, 9 seconds
Birgit Nilsson
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Birgit Nilsson.
Favourite track: Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde) by Richard Wagner
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Swedish crossword puzzles
5/27/1963 • 7 minutes, 43 seconds
Rowland Emett
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedy cartoonist Rowland Emett.
Favourite track: Quartet No 8 in E Minor (Opus 59 No 2) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Luxury: Daughter's teddy bear
5/20/1963 • 7 minutes, 13 seconds
Professor L Dudley Stamp
Roy Plomley's castaway is geographer Professor L Dudley Stamp.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Everyman's Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Wine
5/6/1963 • 3 minutes, 32 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
Ted Willis
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ted Willis.
Favourite track: Symphony No 2 in D Major by Jean Sibelius
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Concertina
4/8/1963 • 7 minutes, 45 seconds
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth
Roy Plomley's castaway is political cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth.
Favourite track: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Opus 68) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Instructions for making a still
Luxury: Painting materials
3/25/1963 • 2 minutes, 21 seconds
Michael Bentine
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine.
Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Painting materials
2/11/1963 • 9 minutes, 5 seconds
Noel Coward
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actor Noel Coward.
Favourite track: The Hole in the Ground by Bernard Cribbins
Book: The Human Situation by W. Macneile Dixon
Luxury: Painting materials
1/28/1963 • 8 minutes, 52 seconds
Gerry Lee
Roy Plomley's castaway is animal impersonator Gerry Lee.
Favourite track: The Flower (from Lilac Time) by Franz Schubert
Book: Quinneys by Horace Vachell
Luxury: Theatrical skip full of his animal skins
1/19/1963 • 4 minutes, 21 seconds
Basil Boothroyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and broadcaster Basil Boothroyd.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto no 23 in A Major (Orchestral Opening) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Current popular newspaper
1/14/1963 • 7 minutes, 32 seconds
George Mitchell
Roy Plomley's castaway is choirmaster George Mitchell.
Favourite track: Götterdämmerung (Closing Scene) by Richard Wagner
Book: The Ring Cycle (The Score) by Richard Wagner
Luxury: Music manuscript paper and pencils
12/31/1962 • 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Lord George Sanger
Roy Plomley's castaway is circus proprietor Lord George Sanger.
Favourite track: I'll See You Again by Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth
Book: His autobiography, Seventy Years a Showman
Luxury: Tea
12/22/1962 • 8 minutes, 54 seconds
A G Street
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and farmer A G Street.
Favourite track: Hounds in Full Cry (The Hunt) by Michael Berry
Book: Ladies Whose Bright Eyes by Ford Madox Ford
Luxury: Painting of the south Wiltshire countryside
12/17/1962 • 3 minutes, 3 seconds
Acker Bilk
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk.
Favourite track: Papa Dip by New Orleans Wanderers
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Apple seeds
12/10/1962 • 7 minutes
Anna Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Anna Russell.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Mobile from the Museum of Modern Art
12/3/1962 • 8 minutes, 10 seconds
Jack Warner
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Jack Warner.
Favourite track: The Carousel Waltz by Rodgers & Hammerstein
Book: A Tale of Two Cities in English and French by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Soap
11/19/1962 • 8 minutes, 12 seconds
George Shearing
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz pianist George Shearing.
Favourite track: Widerstehe Doch der Sunde (Cantata No 54) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat
Luxury: Metal construction set
11/5/1962 • 9 minutes, 42 seconds
Pamela Hansford-Johnson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Pamela Hansford-Johnson.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb
10/29/1962 • 6 minutes, 4 seconds
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Luxury: Skin food
10/8/1962 • 8 minutes, 17 seconds
Stanley Unwin
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Stanley Unwin.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Luxury: Painting materials
9/10/1962 • 5 minutes, 15 seconds
Lionel Tertis
Roy Plomley's castaway is violist Lionel Tertis.
Favourite track: Tambourin Chinois by Fritz Kreisler & Franz Rupp
Book: Books by H Rider Haggard and books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and books by Jules Verne
Luxury: Portrait of wife
8/13/1962 • 10 minutes, 50 seconds
Stephen Spender
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Stephen Spender.
Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: History of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt
Luxury: Painting materials
7/9/1962 • 7 minutes, 16 seconds
John Allegro
Roy Plomley's castaway is Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro.
Favourite track: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Some novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Rolls-Royce engine
6/25/1962 • 8 minutes
Giovanni Martinelli
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Giovanni Martinelli.
Favourite track: Tu, ca nun Chaigne by Enrico Caruso
Book: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Bronze statuette of David by Verrocchio
6/18/1962 • 18 minutes, 26 seconds
Eric Hosking
Roy Plomley's castaway is ornithologist Eric Hosking.
Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar
Book: Field guide to the island's birds
Luxury: Camera and film
6/4/1962 • 8 minutes, 47 seconds
Sidney Nolan
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan.
Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten
Book: Chinese language course
Luxury: Snorkel mask
5/21/1962 • 10 minutes, 54 seconds
Robert Morley
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Robert Morley.
Book: The rules of patience
Luxury: Two packs of cards with photographs of family on the backs
4/23/1962 • 10 minutes, 16 seconds
Raymond Glendenning
Roy Plomley's castaway is sports commentator Raymond Glendenning.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach/Stokowski
Book: Pears Cyclopaedia
Luxury: Watercolour paints
3/26/1962 • 8 minutes
Colonel A D Wintle
Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and writer Colonel A D Wintle.
Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Large blank book
Luxury: Dog whip
3/12/1962 • 16 minutes, 19 seconds
Sir John Gielgud
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud.
Favourite track: Double Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Watercolour of Versailles by Raoul Dufy
1/29/1962 • 10 minutes, 10 seconds
Rupert Davies
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rupert Davies.
Favourite track: Elegie by Jules Massenet
Book: Candide by Voltaire
Luxury: Lump of jade
11/13/1961 • 8 minutes, 2 seconds
Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor Sir Stephen King-Hall.
Favourite track: Jesu Maria (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: Parliamentary Practice by Thomas Erskine-May
Luxury: Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington
9/18/1961 • 6 minutes, 30 seconds
Julian Bream
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Julian Bream.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert
Book: Collection of 16th and 17th century English poetry
Luxury: Guitar, manuscript paper and pens
6/5/1961 • 17 minutes, 11 seconds
Kingsley Amis
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Kingsley Amis.
Favourite track: Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble by Bud Freeman and his Famous Chicagoans
Book: Collected poetry by Robert Graves
Luxury: American whiskey
5/29/1961 • 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Pietro Annigoni
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Pietro Annigoni.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: International timetable of ships and trains
Luxury: Drawing materials and a pillow
5/15/1961 • 6 minutes, 15 seconds
Ralph Reader
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and director Ralph Reader.
Favourite track: These are the Times by The Gang Show
Book: Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
5/8/1961 • 8 minutes, 8 seconds
James Mason
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Mason.
Favourite track: My Man by Billie Holiday
Book: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Luxury: Bagpipes
3/6/1961 • 3 minutes, 22 seconds
Ursula Bloom
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist Ursula Bloom.
Favourite track: Message to the Empire (25 December 1939) by HM King George VI
Book: Book of Common Prayer
Luxury: Writing materials
11/14/1960 • 4 minutes, 13 seconds
Danny Blanchflower
Roy Plomley's castaway is footballer Danny Blanchflower.
Favourite track: The Breeze and I by Caterina Valente
Book: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
8/15/1960 • 7 minutes, 54 seconds
Antal Dorati
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati.
Favourite track: O, Namenlose Freude (from Fidelio) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Personally-compiled anthology
Luxury: Painting of a sleeping girl by Dominico Feti
7/25/1960 • 14 minutes, 38 seconds
Claudio Arrau
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Claudio Arrau.
Favourite track: Symphony No 9 in C Major by Franz Schubert
Book: Works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Luxury: Early Chinese statuette
7/4/1960 • 15 minutes, 28 seconds
Sir Alec Guinness
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness.
Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Luxury: Apricot brandy
6/27/1960 • 24 minutes, 24 seconds
Julian Slade
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Julian Slade.
Favourite track: Art Thou Troubled? by George Frideric Handel
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Violin
6/20/1960 • 5 minutes, 31 seconds
Sir Adrian Boult
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
Favourite track: Symphony No 36 in C Major (Rehearsal) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Luxury: Blanket
3/28/1960 • 4 minutes, 58 seconds
Russ Conway
Roy Plomley's castaway is pop pianist Russ Conway.
Book: Omnibus edition of Hornblower stories by C.S. Forester
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
3/14/1960 • 6 minutes, 11 seconds
Sir Arthur Bryant
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Sir Arthur Bryant.
Favourite track: Sweet Nightingale by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupre
Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Luxury: Painting by Kneller of a girl in a golden gown
2/22/1960 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
Léon Goossens
Roy Plomley's castaway is oboist Leon Goossens.
Favourite track: I Call on Thee, O Lord (Choral Prelude) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Nautical almanac
Luxury: Camp bed