Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

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Clive James

2017-02-1639:4210

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

Placido Domingo

1980-12-2735:02

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

Arthur Askey

1980-12-2033:573

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

Neville Marriner

1980-12-1335:002

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

Jose Carreras

1980-12-0630:55

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

Tom Conti

1980-11-2233:473

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Summerhill by A S Neill Luxury: Piano

Mark Elder

1980-11-0834:011

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

Derek Tangye

1980-11-0134:561

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

Catherine Gaskin

1980-10-2540:43

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

Brian Glover

1980-10-1830:502

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

Sir John Tooley

1980-10-1135:08

Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John TooleyFavourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Sugared apricots

Ronald Lockley

1980-10-0435:25

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

Andrea Newman

1980-09-2737:35

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

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1980-09-2034:331

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

Earl Of Snowdon

1980-09-0635:13

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

Renata Scotto

1980-08-3033:491

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

Tristan Jones

1980-08-2336:15

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

Stephen Sondheim

1980-08-1632:316

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

William Trevor

1980-08-0932:54

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

Gregory Peck

1980-08-0243:588

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

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Linda K. McClure