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
May 10, 1980 • 31min
Natalie Wood
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Natalie Wood.Favourite track: American Pie by Don MacLean
Book: Poetry by e e cummings
Luxury: Piano
May 3, 1980 • 35min
Lindsay Anderson
Roy Plomley's castaway is director Lindsay Anderson.Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 In B Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Les Thibault by Roger Martin Du Gard
Luxury: Mixed flower seeds and a watering can
Apr 26, 1980 • 32min
Salvatore Accardo
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Salvatore Accardo.Favourite track: Che Faro Senza Euridice by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
Book: The Odyssey by Homer
Luxury: Violin and strings
Apr 19, 1980 • 39min
Erich Segal
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Erich Segal.Favourite track: A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy Band
Book: The Odyssey by Homer
Luxury: Stop watch
Apr 12, 1980 • 34min
Leonard Rossiter
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Leonard Rossiter.Favourite track: Max At The Met by Max Miller
Book: Three early novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Moselle wine
Apr 5, 1980 • 36min
Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth
Roy Plomley's castaway is Salvation Army Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth.Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Salvation Army Songbook
Luxury: Strong, wooden armchair
Mar 29, 1980 • 28min
Donald Pleasence
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Pleasence.Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Luxury: Writing materials
Mar 22, 1980 • 28min
Frances Perry
Roy Plomley's castaway is horticulturalist Frances Perry.Favourite track: Stars and Stripes Forever by Royal Military School Of Music Band and Trumpeters
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Lamp with solar batteries
Mar 15, 1980 • 34min
Geoffrey Household
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Geoffrey Household.Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Elizabethan lyrics from songbooks and dramatists
Luxury: Claret
Mar 8, 1980 • 33min
Kiri Te Kanawa
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.Favourite track: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Cooking knives
