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
Dec 6, 1980 • 31min
Jose Carreras
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Jose Carreras.Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini
Book: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Luxury: Velazquez, Les Hilanderas
Nov 29, 1980 • 30min
Alan Minter
Roy Plomley's castaway is boxer Alan Minter.Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio
Nov 22, 1980 • 34min
Tom Conti
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Summerhill by A S Neill
Luxury: Piano
Nov 15, 1980 • 30min
Jacquetta Hawkes
Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Luxury: Wine
Nov 8, 1980 • 34min
Mark Elder
Roy Plomley's castaway is musical director of the English National Opera Mark Elder.Favourite track: I Used To Be Colour Blind by Fred Astaire
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Sherry
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
