Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975

<p>Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island</p>

Bing Crosby

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Bing Crosby.Favourite track: South Rampart Street Parade by Bob Crosby and his Bobcats Book: Roget's Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Guitar

12-29
20:32

Stanley Holloway

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and musician Stanley Holloway.Favourite track: And This Is My Beloved by Doretta Morrow Book: A book on the musical plays of the last century Luxury: Manicure and pedicure set

10-27
22:30

John Julius Norwich

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer John Julius Norwich.Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Writing materials

10-20
23:44

C P Snow

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer C P Snow.Favourite track: Henry IV Part II (Act 3, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare Book: Russian grammar Luxury: Writing materials

08-02
24:56

Anthony Dowell

Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Anthony Dowell.Favourite track: The Prince Of The Pagodas by Benjamin Britten Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Radio receiver

07-28
22:41

Helen Bradley

Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Helen Bradley.Favourite track: Trois Gymnopédies by Satie Book: A great tome on the law Luxury: A soap that kills mosquitoes

07-05
26:03

John Arlott

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott.Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Champagne

05-19
21:24

Ben Travers

Roy Plomley's castaway is farce writer Ben Travers.Favourite track: My Love Parade by Maurice Chevalier Book: The collected works by Robert Browning Luxury: Pipes and tobacco

05-10
25:31

Patricia Hayes

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Patricia Hayes.Favourite track: Nocturne No. 8 In D Flat (Opus 72) by Frédéric Chopin Book: Kristin Lauransdatter by Sigrid Undset Luxury: Four-poster bed

04-21
22:18

Sir John Betjeman

Roy Plomley's castaway is Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman.Favourite track: Ombra Mai Fù by George Frideric Handel Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave Luxury: Champagne

04-12
23:52

Emlyn Williams

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Emlyn Williams.Favourite track: Elizabethan Serenade by Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra Book: Dictionary Luxury: Typewriter, pen, paper

02-15
25:42

Polly James

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Polly James.Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini Book: Victoria RI by Countess Elizabeth Longford Luxury: Group photograph of friends

10-19
21:22

Richard Walker

Roy Plomley's castaway is angler Richard Walker.Favourite track: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini Book: Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling Luxury: Benvenuto Cellini's Golden Salt Cellar

07-06
22:33

Leslie Mitchell

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Leslie Mitchell.Favourite track: Summer Night On The River by Frederick Delius Book: Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci Luxury: Silver box containing a miniature singing bird

06-01
24:42

James Stewart

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart.Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury: Piano

05-27
24:11

David Dimbleby

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster David Dimbleby.Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and Strings by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Havana cigars

04-29
22:17

Philip Hope-Wallace

Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Philip Hope-Wallace.Favourite track: Dies Irae and Salve Me by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Ivory chess set

04-01
22:20

Brian Johnston

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Brian Johnston.Favourite track: Double Damask by Cicely Courtneidge & Ivor McLaren Book: Funny Way to be a Hero by James Fisher Luxury: Automatic bowling machine & cricket balls

03-16
19:57

Eddie Waring

Roy Plomley's castaway is commentator Eddie Waring.Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Bradshaw's Railway Timetable Luxury: Couch

02-25
18:41

Roy Fox

Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Roy Fox.Favourite track: Whispering by Roy Fox and his Orchestra Book: Volume of crossword puzzles Luxury: Radio receiver

02-16
23:47

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