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
Apr 16, 1983 • 40min
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Geoffrey Moorhouse.Favourite track: Notte E Giorno Faticar (Don Giovanni) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Dictionary of National Biography
Luxury: Recording of curlews and Indian spices
Apr 9, 1983 • 41min
Ruggiero Ricci
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Ruggiero Ricci.Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Letters by Beethoven
Luxury: The Plowden Guarneri violin
Apr 2, 1983 • 40min
James Fox
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Fox.Favourite track: I Believe In You by Bob Dylan
Book: Colour reproduction of Renaissance artists
Luxury: Water colour equipment
Mar 26, 1983 • 43min
Jan Morris
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Jan Morris.Favourite track: Badinrie by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Her own book on Venice
Luxury: Astronimical telescope with Catalogue Of Nebulae
Mar 19, 1983 • 40min
Michael Wood
Roy Plomley's castaway is flying surgeon of East Africa Michael Wood.Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue In D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Other Men's Flowers by Lord A P Wavell
Luxury: Pair of field glasses
Mar 12, 1983 • 38min
Douglas Reeman
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Douglas Reeman.Favourite track: The Song Of The Jellicles by T S Eliot
Book: The Admiralty Seamanship Manual
Luxury: Orchid-growing kit
Mar 5, 1983 • 40min
Kenneth Macmillan
Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Kenneth Macmillan.Favourite track: Students' Chorus by Romberg
Book: The Rack by A E Ellis
Luxury: Godiva chocolates from Belgium
Feb 26, 1983 • 40min
Tom Keating
Roy Plomley's castaway is painter and restorer Tom Keating.Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in D by Jean Sibelius
Book: Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Luxury: Mattock
Feb 19, 1983 • 40min
James Ivory
Roy Plomley's castaway is director James Ivory.Favourite track: The Three Ladies Find Tamino by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Shower with hot water
Feb 12, 1983 • 38min
Zandra Rhodes
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Zandra Rhodes.Favourite track: Bolero by Maurice Ravel
Book: Household Management by Mrs Beeton
Luxury: Sketchbook, pens and pencils
