Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986

Roy Plomley's castaway is poet and writer Laurie Lee.

Favourite track: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry by Edith Sitwell Luxury: Materials for making wine or beer

Roy Plomley's castaway is contralto Helen Watts.

Favourite track: Betracht Meine Seel by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Illustrated book on gardening Luxury: Velasquez, The Maids of Honour, in the Prado

Roy Plomley's castaway is TV reporter Fyfe Robertson.

Favourite track: Sound an Alarm by George Frideric Handel Book: General Semantics Luxury: Cello

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Joseph Cotten.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Gardening manual Luxury: Boat building book

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Valerie Masterson.

Favourite track: Symphony in D Minor by César Franck Book: Survival manual Luxury: Beauty products

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart.

Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury: Piano

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is horticulturalist Bill Sowerbutts.

Favourite track: Les Francs Juges (Overture) by Hector Berlioz Book: English Dictionary Luxury: Tobacco seeds and a brewing vat

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Charles Groves.

Favourite track: Siegmund's Spring Song by Richard Wagner Book: Anthology of English Verse Luxury: Cigars

Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Joan Bakewell.

Favourite track: Mefistofele (Prologue) by Nicola Moscona & Robert Shaw Book: The collected works by James Joyce Luxury: Yellow Lamborghini

Roy Plomley's castaway is diplomat Sir Geoffrey Jackson.

Favourite track: Gloria by Los Fronterizos Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Spanish guitar

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Raymond Leppard.

Favourite track: Et Resurrexit by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Iliad by Homer and The Odyssey by Homer Luxury: Gin, dry Martini and lemons

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Alice Delysia.

Favourite track: C'est La Saison D'Amour by Oscar Straus Book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is artist David Hockney.

Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Route 69 by Floyd Carter Luxury: Paper, pencils and a battery-operated sharpener

Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist Alfred Brendel.

Favourite track: Prelude No 24 In B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Lieder by Franz Schubert Luxury: Bavarian rococo church

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Ronnie Corbett.

Favourite track: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by George Frideric Handel Book: Handbook on tropical vegetation Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is organist Reginald Foort.

Favourite track: Lullaby Of Broadway by Joe Loss and his Orchestra Book: Back numbers of the Reader's Digest Luxury: Organ

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Geoff Boycott.

Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra Book: Set of Wisden Luxury: Telephone line to a sports newspaper

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Michael Crawford.

Favourite track: Singin' In The Rain by Gene Kelly Book: A Book of Beauty by John Hadfield Luxury: Cherry tree

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robertson Hare.

Favourite track: John Brown's Body by Paul Robertson Book: Yours Indubitably by Robertson Hare Luxury: Scotch Whisky

Julian Bream first played the guitar on radio in Children's Hour when he was only 13. This led to guest appearances in a series on the Light Programme, and so his career took off. Before long he also took up the lute and played his part in the revival of interest in early music. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his long career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosamond Lehmann.

Favourite track: Nunc Dimittis by Burgon Book: Letters by Marquise de Sevigne Luxury: Writing Materials

Roy Plomley's castaways are members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Book: Books by Hector Berlioz, Charles Dickens, Hugh Johnson and a cookery book Luxury: Razor and shaving soap, a video player with a tape of Laurel & Hardy, wine and a violin

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Helene Hanff.

Favourite track: In Tears Of Grief by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Memoirs by Louis De Rouvroy Luxury: Scrabble

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alan Howard.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 15 In D by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Piano manual Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist James Clavell.

Favourite track: The Impossible Dream by Roberta Flack Book: The Koran

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Elspeth Huxley.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg Book: Novels by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Camera and film

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Terry Hands.

Favourite track: String Quartet in C by Franz Joseph Haydn Book: Dictionary Luxury: Cello

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Gillian Lynne.

Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett Book: French language course Luxury: Eyelash curlers

Roy Plomley's castaway is bass singer Eric Shilling.

Favourite track: Deh Vieni Non Tardar by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Collin's Albatross Book of Verse by Louis Untermeyer Luxury: Astronomical telescope

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Edmund Rubbra.

Favourite track: Symphony No .9 In C by Franz Schubert Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Music manuscript paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is boxer Alan Minter.

Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra Book: Survival manual Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio

Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.

Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Wine

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati.

Favourite track: Rondo Capriccioso by Felix Mendelssohn Book: The Golden Man by Yokoi Luxury: Italian landscape drawing from his collection

Roy Plomley's castaway is World Champion decathlete Daley Thompson.

Favourite track: Unchained Melody by George Benson Book: Novels by John Wyndham Luxury: Guitar and instruction book

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Freddie Jones.

Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Liebig condenser for distilling gin

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Robert Tear.

Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett Book: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts Luxury: Postcards of paintings with poems on the back

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Salvatore Accardo.

Favourite track: Che Faro Senza Euridice by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck Book: The Odyssey by Homer Luxury: Violin and strings

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Pleasence.

Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is horticulturalist Frances Perry.

Favourite track: Stars and Stripes Forever by Royal Military School Of Music Band and Trumpeters Book: Survival manual Luxury: Lamp with solar batteries

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Susannah York.

Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and String Orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Italian Touring Atlas of the World Luxury: Pencils and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Kyung-Wha Chung.

Favourite track: Cello Suite No. 5 In C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Luxury: Mixed flower seeds

Roy Plomley's castaway is poet and broadcaster Pam Ayres.

Favourite track: The New St George by John & Chris Leslie Book: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Luxury: Large basket of sugared almonds

Roy Plomley's castaway is thriller writer Ted Allbeury.

Favourite track: Love Is The Sweetest Thing by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly Luxury: Writing paper and pencils

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Richard Buckle.

Favourite track: Piano Quintet In A Major by Franz Schubert Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Paper and pencils

Roy Plomley's castaway is Chairwoman of the WI Patricia Batty Shaw.

Favourite track: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius Book: Civilisation by Kenneth Clarke Luxury: Selection of herbs

Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist Phil Drabble.

Favourite track: Recording Of The Song Of The Blackbird Book: Shorthand instruction book with paper and pens Luxury: Set of bird-ringing tools, including rings

Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Sherrill Milnes.

Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Twenty-Five Years of New Yorker Cartoons Luxury: Herrings in sour cream

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Julia Foster.

Favourite track: And So I Love You by Bobby Goldsboro Book: Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Tapestry-making kit

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Margaret Price.

Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Pacific Cookbook by Victor Sperandeo Luxury: Perfume

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Ron Moody.

Favourite track: Sparky's Magic Piano by Henry Blair & Verne Smith Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Luxury: Oil painting

Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Vince Hill.

Favourite track: Fountains Of Rome by Respighi Book: Do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Turner's Seascape

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Doris Hare.

Favourite track: Fantasia On Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams Book: Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Dave Allen.

Favourite track: Canon In D by Johann Pachelbel Book: Ballard of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Luxury: Painting by Van Hook

Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Duncan Grant.

Favourite track: L'Incoronazione Di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi Book: The collected works by Jane Austen Luxury: Artists' materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Jilly Cooper.

Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Luxury: Notebooks and pens

Roy Plomley's castaway is portrait painter Bernard Hailstone.

Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: In Search of the Miraculous by Peter Ouspensky Luxury: Radio receiver

Roy Plomley's castaway is Punch and Judy man Percy Press.

Favourite track: A Midsummer Nights Dream by Felix Mendelssohn Book: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Luxury: Pair Of Binoculars

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Angela Baddeley.

Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Luxury: Portrait of her husband

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Oliver Reed.

Favourite track: Jardins Sous La Pluie by Claude Debussy Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman

Roy Plomley's castaway is long-distance runner Bruce Tulloh.

Favourite track: A Felicidade by Antonio Carlos Jobim Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Luxury: Harmonica

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Denholm Elliott.

Favourite track: Kyrie A 4 by John Taverner Book: Survival manual Luxury: Still

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roland Culver.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in B Flat by Johannes Brahms Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist Brian Inglis.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in F by Johannes Brahms Book: The Crock of Gold by James Stephens Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Alexander Young.

Favourite track: Crudel Perchè Finora by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Luxury: Radio-controlled model aircraft

Roy Plomley's castaway is the Captain of the Welsh rugby team Gareth Edwards.

Favourite track: Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon & Garfunkel Book: The collected works by Dylan Thomas Luxury: Cornet

Roy Plomley's castaway is zoologist Professor Sir Alister Hardy FRS.

Favourite track: I'll See You Again by Peggy Wood & George Metaxa Book: The Prelude by William Wordsworth Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Peter Rogers.

Favourite track: Sanctus by Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur Book: Bound volume of Punch from the 1960s Luxury: Ninth record: Massenet's Elegie

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Leontyne Price.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: How to be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman Luxury: Soap

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joyce Carey.

Favourite track: Introduction and Allegro For Strings (Opus 47) by Edward Elgar Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Box of oddments from her dressing table

Roy Plomley's castaway is weather forecaster Bert Foord.

Favourite track: Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin Book: Short Stories by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedy actress June Whitfield.

Favourite track: Well Did You Evah? by Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby Book: Do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Tape recorder

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Colin Welland.

Favourite track: Londonderry Air by Philharmonia Orchestra Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Ruskin Spear RA.

Favourite track: Fantasia and Fugue In G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley Luxury: Radio receiver

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Brenda Bruce.

Favourite track: Florida Suite by Frederick Delius Book: Bhagavad-Gita by Christopher Isherwood Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Joe Bugner.

Favourite track: Where's The Girl? by Walker Brothers Book: Papillon by Henri Charrière Luxury: Chess set

Roy Plomley's castaway is director John Huston.

Favourite track: Shenandoah by Salli Terri Book: Dialogues by Plato Luxury: Havana cigars

Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Norman Thelwell.

Favourite track: Nocturne in F Sharp by Frédéric Chopin Book: Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is mezzo-soprano Edith Coates.

Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Novels by Jean Plaidy Luxury: Brandy

Roy Plomley's castaway is mountaineer Chris Bonington.

Favourite track: Harp Concerto in B Flat by George Frideric Handel Book: Marlborough: His Life and Times by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Radio receiver

Roy Plomley's castaway is stage-door keeper Harry Loman.

Favourite track: Thanks for the Memory by Shirley Ross & Bob Hope Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Luxury: Cards

Roy Plomley's castaway is organist Florence De Jong.

Favourite track: The Good Old, Bad Old Days by Anthony Newley Book: Book of cartoons by Carl Giles Luxury: Accordian

Roy Plomley's castaway is BBC diplomatic correspondent Christopher Serpell.

Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No. 17 In A Flat by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Diary by Samuel Pepys Luxury: Equipment for wine-making and brewing

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Alexander Gibson.

Favourite track: Liebestod by Richard Wagner Book: Complete Opera Book by Gustave Kobbe Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Leslie Thomas.

Favourite track: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas Luxury: Sand iron and golf balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Rita Hunter.

Favourite track: Ingemisco by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Anthology of Poetry Luxury: Oil-painting equipment

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and explorer Anthony Smith.

Favourite track: Iranian Love Song Book: Atlas Luxury: Sketching materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is impersonator Mike Yarwood.

Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: Volume of colour reproductions of paintings Luxury: Daily newspaper

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tony Britton.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 39 In E Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Language courses Luxury: Scotch and Champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is organist Noel Rawsthorne.

Favourite track: Osanna In Excelsis by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Survival manual Luxury: Harpsichord

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz singer and actress Adelaide Hall.

Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Mahilia Jackson Book: History of the United States Luxury: Crochet needles and wool

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and explorer Group Captain Peter Townsend.

Favourite track: L'Ame Des Poètes by Charles Trenet Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Luxury: Seeds

Roy Plomley's castaway is footballer Jackie Charlton.

Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Luxury: Spy-glass

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Christopher Gable.

Favourite track: Abschied by Gustav Mahler Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Still

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Michael Aspel.

Favourite track: Ma Mere L'Oye by Maurice Ravel Book: History of the World Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.

Favourite track: The Girls I Like by Max Miller Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Golf clubs and balls