Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1960-1969

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is cabaret singer Juliette Greco.

Favourite track: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Atlas Luxury: Writing materials

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Mason.

Favourite track: My Man by Billie Holiday Book: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Luxury: Bagpipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan.

Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten Book: Chinese language course Luxury: Snorkel mask

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Lillian Board.

Favourite track: Theme From Zorba the Greek by Theodorakis Book: Family photograph album Luxury: Bed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Edward Downes.

Favourite track: Bailero by Mardeleine Grey Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Chinese language course

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Billy Russell.

Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Gracie Fields Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

Favourite track: Jeux by Claude Debussy Book: The Atlantic Book by Edith Sitwell Luxury: Piano

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Eleanor Bron.

Favourite track: Im Fruhling by Franz Schubert Book: Bi-lingual edition by Homer Luxury: Sycamore trees

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Dame Maggie Teyte.

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alfie Bass.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Encyclopaedia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper.

Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert Book: Do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Training gear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Joseph Szigeti.

Book: Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley Luxury: Pictures

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is author and scriptwriter Gale Pedrick.

Favourite track: Flowers by Hermione Gingold Book: Who's Who Luxury: Writing materials

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Ken Dodd.

Favourite track: The Floral Dance by Peter Dawson Book: Dictionary Luxury: Tea

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine.

Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Painting materials

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

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