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 20, 1982 • 32min
P D James
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer P D James.Favourite track: St Matthew Passion (First Chorus) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Luxury: Claret
Nov 13, 1982 • 29min
Rosamond Lehmann
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosamond Lehmann.Favourite track: Nunc Dimittis by Burgon
Book: Letters by Marquise de Sevigne
Luxury: Writing Materials
Nov 6, 1982 • 34min
Thomas Allen
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Thomas Allen.Favourite track: Concerto in C For Violin, Cello, Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
Oct 30, 1982 • 37min
Rt Hon. George Thomas
Lord Tonypandy, George Thomas, now Chairman of the National Children's Homes, was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983. He was invited to choose the eight records he would take to the mythical island, and he also talked to Roy Plomley about his childhood in Wales and about his parliamentary career which he began when he won the Cardiff Central seat in 1945.Book: The Methodist hymn book
Luxury: Writing materials
Oct 23, 1982 • 35min
Mike Harding
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Mike Harding.Favourite track: 2000-Year-Old Man by Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Ordnance Survey maps and a set of books about the Fells
Oct 16, 1982 • 35min
Geoffrey Grigson
Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Geoffrey Grigson.Favourite track: She Never Told Her Love by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Pate de foie gras
Oct 9, 1982 • 31min
N.Busch, J.Kuchmy, M.Parry, M.Wilson
Roy Plomley's castaways are members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.Book: Books by Hector Berlioz, Charles Dickens, Hugh Johnson and a cookery book
Luxury: Razor and shaving soap, a video player with a tape of Laurel & Hardy, wine and a violin
Oct 2, 1982 • 36min
David Lloyd Jones
Roy Plomley's castaway is artistic director of Opera North David Lloyd Jones.Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In C by Franz Schubert
Book: Journal by Edmond Goncourt
Sep 25, 1982 • 33min
Wilbur Smith
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Wilbur Smith.Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Brass bedstead and a feather mattress
Sep 18, 1982 • 36min
Carlo Curley
Roy Plomley's castaway is organist Carlo Curley.Favourite track: Wie Lieblich Sind Deine Wohnungen by Johannes Brahms
Book: Cookery book by Julia Childs
Luxury: Pipe organ
