Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
Episodes
Mentioned books
May 22, 1982 • 29min
Marti Webb
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Marti Webb.Favourite track: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill-0n-Sea by The Goons
Book: Illustrated dictionary
Luxury: Piano
May 15, 1982 • 34min
Julian Symons
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Julian Symons.Favourite track: The Quarry by W. H. Auden
Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Couch
May 8, 1982 • 35min
Lucia Popp
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Lucia Popp.Favourite track: Teddy Bears' Picnic by Henry Hall and BBC Dance Orchestra
Book: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Luxury: Teddy bear
May 1, 1982 • 34min
Jenny Agutter
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Jenny Agutter.Favourite track: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Luxury: Oriental rug
Apr 24, 1982 • 36min
Dorothy Dunnett
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Dunnett.Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Guitar
Apr 17, 1982 • 35min
Brian Aldiss
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and critic Brian Aldiss.Favourite track: Sonata In A by Franz Schubert
Book: Rasselas by Dr Samuel Johnson
Luxury: Time machine
Apr 10, 1982 • 32min
Julia McKenzie
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Julia McKenzie.Favourite track: Skylark by Johnny Mandel and his Orchestra
Book: Act One by Moss Hart
Luxury: Painting materials
Apr 3, 1982 • 35min
Richard Armstrong
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Richard Armstrong.Favourite track: Tristan's Monologue by Richard Wagner
Book: Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
Luxury: Piano
Mar 27, 1982 • 32min
Sir William Walton
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Sir William Walton.Favourite track: Violin Concerto by William Walton
Book: The Education of a Gardener by Russel Page
Luxury: Funicular for hills
Mar 20, 1982 • 35min
Lord Bernard Miles
Roy Plomley's castaway is founder of the Mermaid Bernard Miles.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Odyssey (Translation by W H D Rouse) by Homer
Luxury: Box of notebooks, pencils and sharpeners
