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
Jun 23, 1979 • 28min
Ed McBain
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
Jun 16, 1979 • 30min
Irene Thomas
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
Jun 9, 1979 • 27min
Ian Carmichael
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
Jun 2, 1979 • 30min
Sir Robert Mayer
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)
May 26, 1979 • 23min
Jack Brymer
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
May 19, 1979 • 28min
Alec McCowen
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alec McCowen.Favourite track: Gypsy (Overture) by Broadway Orchestra
Book: The Egoist by George Meredith
Luxury: Painting materials
May 12, 1979 • 33min
Peter Blake
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
May 5, 1979 • 31min
James Cameron
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
Apr 28, 1979 • 28min
Edward Fox
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
Apr 21, 1979 • 31min
Patricia Highsmith
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
