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
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
Aug 23, 1980 • 36min
Tristan Jones
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and writer Tristan Jones.Favourite track: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Modern wooden yacht construction
Luxury: 12 foot by 8 foot Union Jack
Aug 16, 1980 • 33min
Stephen Sondheim
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Stephen Sondheim.Favourite track: Porgy and Bess by Lawrence Winters and Others
Book: Collected works by E B White
Luxury: Piano
Aug 9, 1980 • 33min
William Trevor
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor.Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler
Luxury: Grapevines
Aug 2, 1980 • 44min
Gregory Peck
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Gregory Peck.Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
Jul 26, 1980 • 31min
David Scott Blackhall
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Scott Blackhall.Favourite track: Our Love Is Here To Stay by George Gershwin
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Perkins Brailler and paper
