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
Oct 28, 1978 • 28min
Jule Styne
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Jule Styne.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Luxury: Picture of family
Oct 21, 1978 • 27min
Colin Wilson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Colin Wilson.Favourite track: String Quartet in F by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Travels in the Arabian Desert by Charles Montagu Doughty
Luxury: Supply of Beaujolais
Oct 14, 1978 • 28min
Noel Edmonds
Roy Plomley's castaway is DJ and TV presenter Noel Edmonds.Favourite track: Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce
Book: Thesaurus by Roget
Luxury: Motorway service station
Oct 7, 1978 • 30min
Christopher Fry
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Christopher Fry.Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Rocking chair
Sep 30, 1978 • 28min
Alec Clifton-Taylor
Roy Plomley's castaway is architectural historian Alec Clifton-Taylor.Favourite track: Intermezzo In C Major by Johannes Brahms
Book: Set of the Shell County Guides
Luxury: Bed
Sep 23, 1978 • 29min
Alan Jay Lerner
Roy Plomley's castaway is lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.Favourite track: Mack The Knife by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Luxury: Piano with wife's picture attached
Sep 16, 1978 • 29min
Cathy Berberian
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian.Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Box of spices
Sep 9, 1978 • 27min
Tennessee Williams
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tennessee Williams.Favourite track: Danny Boy by Harry Belafonte
Book: Poetry by Hart Crane
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
Sep 2, 1978 • 30min
Gian Carlo Menotti
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti.Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant
Luxury: Tarot cards
Aug 26, 1978 • 29min
Rt Hon. Denis Healey
Roy Plomley's castaway is Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey.Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Poetry by W B Yeats
Luxury: Oil painting equipment
