Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Lauren Bacall.

Favourite track: My Mistress' Eyes (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare Book: Collected Short Stories by John Cheever Luxury: Sun tan lotion

Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Jacqueline Du Pré.

Favourite track: Piano Quintet In A Major by Franz Schubert Book: Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Pencils and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is clarinettist Jack Brymer.

Favourite track: String Quintet No. 3 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The collected works by Charles Dickens Luxury: Piano

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.

Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Summerhill by A S Neill Luxury: Piano

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Tooley

Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Sugared apricots

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Scott Blackhall.

Favourite track: Our Love Is Here To Stay by George Gershwin Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Perkins Brailler and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tom Lehrer.

Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer V S Naipaul.

Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Teach yourself mathematics Luxury: The Enlightened Buddha

Roy Plomley's castaway is dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.

Favourite track: Skye Boat Song by Adrian Brett Book: Talking To Animals by Barbara Woodhouse Luxury: Mother's ormolu clock

Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and writer General Sir John Hackett.

Favourite track: String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: 1001 Gems of English Poetry Luxury: Six dozen bottles of Chateau La Tour 1962

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz pianist Earl Hines.

Favourite track: Trust In Me by Dinah Washington & Quincy Jones and his Orchestra Book: The World of Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance Luxury: Physical culture equipment

Roy Plomley's castaway is Master of the Rolls The Rt Hon Lord Alfred Denning.

Favourite track: Fantasia On Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave Luxury: Indian tea

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Natalie Wood.

Favourite track: American Pie by Don MacLean Book: Poetry by e e cummings Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Lindsay Anderson.

Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 In B Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Les Thibault by Roger Martin Du Gard Luxury: Mixed flower seeds and a watering can

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Erich Segal.

Favourite track: A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy Band Book: The Odyssey by Homer Luxury: Stop watch

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Leonard Rossiter.

Favourite track: Max At The Met by Max Miller Book: Three early novels by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Moselle wine

Roy Plomley's castaway is Salvation Army Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth.

Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel Book: The Salvation Army Songbook Luxury: Strong, wooden armchair

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Geoffrey Household.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Elizabethan lyrics from songbooks and dramatists Luxury: Claret

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.

Favourite track: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Cooking knives

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Fay Weldon.

Book: Kennedy's Latin Primer Luxury: Shiny white paper and felt pens

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Timothy West.

Favourite track: Bagatelle In B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Mallory Luxury: Typewriter

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Claudio Abbado.

Favourite track: Kommt Ihr Tochter by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Otto Preminger.

Favourite track: Laura by Frank Sinatra Book: Autobiography by Otto Preminger Luxury: Beautiful watch

Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Scrapbook Luxury: Cashmere Shawl

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Favourite track: Parker's Mood by Charlie Parker All Stars Book: Baha'i Prayer Book Luxury: Trumpet

Roy Plomley's castaway is chairman of British Rail Sir Peter Parker.

Favourite track: Oboe Quartet in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The collected works by William Blake Luxury: Gold rail pass

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Reginald Goodall.

Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton Luxury: An English garden

Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster.

Favourite track: Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Live sturgeon

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Norman Mailer.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Luxury: Stick of the best marijuana

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom.

Favourite track: The Age Of Gold by Dmitri Shostakovich Book: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Charles Causley.

Favourite track: The Play Of Daniel Overture by Ensemble Hortus Musicus Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Shaffer.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 9 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Claude Monet, Dawn on the Seine

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and writer Michael Palin.

Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and musician Marti Caine.

Favourite track: Coming Home by Marshall Hain Book: Glory Road by Robert Heinlein Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water and bubble bath

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Sian Phillips.

Favourite track: Summer by Alexander Glazunov Book: Scouting For Boys by Robert Baden-Powell Luxury: Solar-powered refrigerator full of champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is children's writer Roald Dahl.

Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner Luxury: Still, grapevine cuttings and tobacco seeds

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rex Harrison.

Favourite track: A Lull At Dawn by Barney Bigard and his Orchestra Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Luxury: Painting equipment for oils and watercolours

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Josephine Barstow.

Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Michelangelo's David

Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger.

Favourite track: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Supply of acid drops

Roy Plomley's castaway is portrait painter June Mendoza.

Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten Book: The Penguin Chronology of the Modern World by Neville Williams Luxury: Canvases, brushes and paint

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Peter Barkworth.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat by Edward Elgar Book: His diaries to date Luxury: Beautifully bound blank book and ballpoint pens

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Barry Norman.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The World of Jeeves by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Typewriter, paper and a desk with cricket balls in the drawers

Roy Plomley's castaway is opera singer Boris Christoff.

Favourite track: Prendi I'Anel Ti Dono (from La Sonnambula) by Vincenzo Bellini Book: The Poetry by Yuarroros

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Countess Elizabeth Longford.

Favourite track: Air (from Water Music Suite) by Handel/Harty Book: Utopia by Thomas Moore Luxury: Tapestry making kit

Besides choosing the eight records he would take to the mythical island, Sir Ralph Richardson talks to Roy Plomley about his early life in an insurance office, about some of the many films and plays in which he has acted, and about the National Theatre where he was appearing at the time.

Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Novels by Henry James Luxury: Pipes and tobacco

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Dame Moura Lympany.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor by Felix Mendelssohn Book: Book about growing flowers and vegetables on a desert island Luxury: Wine from own vineyard

Roy Plomley's castaways are scriptwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Favourite track: You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin Book: Teach yourself the guitar and Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Cards and a guitar

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian C Northcote Parkinson.

Favourite track: The Old Hundredth by Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Radio receiver

Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Glen Tetley.

Favourite track: Laudamus Te by Claudio Monteverdi Book: Earthly Paradise by Colette Luxury: South American hammock

Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Tito Gobbi.

Favourite track: La Montanara by Tito Gobbi Book: Flowers of the World by Leslie Greenwood Luxury: Bar of gold

Roy Plomley's castaway is the writer Ed McBain.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: Streets of Gold by Ed McBain Luxury: Whisky

Roy Plomley's castaway is former Brain Of Britain and radio personality Irene Thomas.

Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Score of the opera Fidelio by Beethoven Luxury: Teddy bear stuffed with tea bags

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Ian Carmichael.

Favourite track: Adagio (from Spartacus) by Aram Khachaturian Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Paper and pencils

Roy Plomley's castaway is patron of music Sir Robert Mayer.

Favourite track: An Die Musik by Franz Schubert Book: His visitors' book Luxury: Grapes (seedless)

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alec McCowen.

Favourite track: Gypsy (Overture) by Broadway Orchestra Book: The Egoist by George Meredith Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Peter Blake.

Favourite track: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy (from Ulysses) by James Joyce Book: Ulysses by James Joyce Luxury: Cement and tools to build a folly

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist James Cameron.

Favourite track: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Malt whisky

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Edward Fox.

Favourite track: Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Selection of novels by Evelyn Waugh Luxury: Limes toilet water by Floris

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Patricia Highsmith.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.

Favourite track: Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Painting he has of Kathmandu valley

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Sir Adrian Boult.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 40 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Luxury: Panama hats stuffed with barley sugar

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Burl Ives.

Favourite track: Horn Concerto No. 4 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: I Ching Luxury: Whisky (Tobermory)

Roy Plomley's castaway is snooker champion Ray Reardon.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Ileana Cotrubas.

Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: History of the whole world Luxury: Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

Roy Plomley's castaway is zoologist David Attenborough.

Favourite track: String Quintet In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life by William Barry Lord Luxury: Binoculars

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Nana Mouskouri.

Favourite track: Girl From The North Country by Bob Dylan Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Luxury: Telephone

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Sir Arthur Bryant.

Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Painting of a little princess, by Velazquez

Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of the Guinness Book of Records Norris McWhirter.

Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: The National Dictionary of Biography Luxury: Roll of cloth

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Stephens.

Favourite track: Speak The Speech, I Pray You (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare Book: The collected works by Raymond Chandler Luxury: Tobacco plant

Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Benjamin Luxon.

Favourite track: Spem In Alium by Tallis Book: Collected stories by Idris Shah Luxury: A piano and music

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Elia Kazan.

Favourite track: String Quartet in A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Iliad by Homer Luxury: 20 tons of pine needles

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and scriptwriter Allan Prior.

Favourite track: Never Been Kissed In The Same Place Twice by Maddy Prior Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Luxury: Looking glass

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Powell.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor by Gustav Mahler Book: Modern English Usage by Henry W Fowler Luxury: Typewriter

Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Norman Parkinson.

Favourite track: La Vie En Rose by Grace Jones Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly Luxury: Life-size bronze statue of an Ama-Indian woman

Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Sir Robert Helpmann.

Favourite track: Bailero by Victoria De Los Angeles Book: Volume on boat building for beginners Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dinsdale Landen.

Favourite track: Sanctus by Gabriel Fauré Book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Luxury: Champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is rugby player Barry John.

Favourite track: Myfanwy by Treorchy Male Voice Choir Book: Complete Penguin Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Luxury: Collection of assorted balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 27 In B Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Blank book and pens Luxury: Well-programmed robot

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joan Fontaine.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg Book: Single-volume encyclopaedia Luxury: The Taj Mahal

Roy Plomley's castaway is botanist David Bellamy.

Favourite track: The Better Land by Clara Butt Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Linen sheets

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Michael Crawford.

Favourite track: Gloria by Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin Book: Self Sufficiency by John Seymour Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman