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
Nov 1, 1980 • 35min
Derek Tangye
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
Oct 25, 1980 • 40min
Catherine Gaskin
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
Oct 18, 1980 • 31min
Brian Glover
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
Oct 11, 1980 • 34min
Sir John Tooley
Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John TooleyFavourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Sugared apricots
Oct 4, 1980 • 35min
Ronald Lockley
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
Sep 27, 1980 • 37min
Andrea Newman
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
Sep 20, 1980 • 35min
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
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
Sep 13, 1980 • 26min
Antal Dorati
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
Sep 6, 1980 • 35min
Earl Of Snowdon
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
Aug 30, 1980 • 33min
Renata Scotto
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
