Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Hugh Lloyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Lloyd.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Anthology by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
7.7.1965 • 21 Protokoll, 3 Sekunden
Mary Stocks
Roy Plomley's castaway is teacher and social worker Mary Stocks.
Favourite track: In Tears of Grief (from St Matthew Passion), Final Chorus by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Collected novels by Jane Austen
Luxury: Radio receiver
5.7.1965 • 23 Protokoll, 11 Sekunden
Ginette Spanier
Roy Plomley's castaway is fashion house director Ginette Spanier.
Favourite track: You're Sensational by Frank Sinatra
Book: Notebook and pencil
Luxury: Silver box
21.6.1965 • 22 Protokoll, 28 Sekunden
Al Read
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Al Read.
Favourite track: Waltzing Matilda by Frank Ifield
Book: Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach you Personality
Luxury: Family photo album
19.4.1965 • 19 Protokoll, 46 Sekunden
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Favourite track: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar
Luxury: Skin-diver's mask
12.4.1965 • 26 Protokoll, 11 Sekunden
George Baker
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone George Baker.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: His favourite works by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
5.4.1965 • 27 Protokoll, 18 Sekunden
Arthur Fiedler
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Arthur Fiedler.
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Binoculars
1.3.1965 • 26 Protokoll, 26 Sekunden
Owen Brannigan
Roy Plomley's castaway is bass Owen Brannigan.
Favourite track: Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten
Book: The collected works by G.K. Chesterton
Luxury: Trombone
8.2.1965 • 25 Protokoll, 33 Sekunden
Marlene Dietrich
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Marlene Dietrich.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: The Telegram by Konstantin Paustovsky and A Story of Life by Konstantin Paustovsky
Luxury: Mementoes box
4.1.1965 • 19 Protokoll, 49 Sekunden
Jack de Manio
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Jack de Manio.
Favourite track: The Faithful Hussar by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Scented soap
26.12.1964 • 21 Protokoll, 41 Sekunden
Tallulah Bankhead
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Book: The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon
Luxury: Her portrait by Augustus John
14.12.1964 • 23 Protokoll, 40 Sekunden
Frank Phillips
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Frank Phillips.
Favourite track: Etude No 13 in A Flat Major (Opus 25 No 1) by Frédéric Chopin
Book: A Dictionary of Origins by Eric Partridge
Luxury: Armchair
23.11.1964 • 23 Protokoll, 5 Sekunden
Reverend W Awdry
Roy Plomley's castaway is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine Reverend W Awdry.
Favourite track: Baal, We Cry to Thee by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Luxury: Writing materials
19.10.1964 • 29 Protokoll, 11 Sekunden
Dirk Bogarde
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dirk Bogarde.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Luxury: Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
28.9.1964 • 22 Protokoll, 57 Sekunden
Kenneth Connor
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Kenneth Connor.
Favourite track: Little Bit This, Little Bit That by Jimmy Durante
Book: Margin Released by J B Priestley
Luxury: Guitar
22.6.1964 • 21 Protokoll, 41 Sekunden
Paul Tortelier
Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Paul Tortelier.
Favourite track: Er, der Herrlichste von Allen from Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann
Book: La Petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach by Esther Meynell
Luxury: Bicycle and cider
15.6.1964 • 21 Protokoll, 43 Sekunden
Richard Wattis
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Wattis.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Life of Disraeli by André Maurois
Luxury: Bed
1.6.1964 • 19 Protokoll, 45 Sekunden
David Jacobs
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Jacobs.
Favourite track: God Be in My Head by Temple Church Choir
Book: A Hundred-and-One Things a Girl Can Do
Luxury: Piano and family photographs
25.5.1964 • 19 Protokoll, 40 Sekunden
Sir Miles Thomas
Roy Plomley's castaway is industrialist Sir Miles Thomas.
Favourite track: Noel Coward Fantasy by Melachrino Orchestra
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Toothpaste
6.4.1964 • 20 Protokoll, 46 Sekunden
Wilfrid Brambell
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Wilfrid Brambell.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Scotch whisky and lager
30.3.1964 • 18 Protokoll, 46 Sekunden
Leslie Baily
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Leslie Baily.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Come Hither - an anthology of poetry by Walter de la Mare
Luxury: Woodworker Tools
13.1.1964 • 24 Protokoll, 8 Sekunden
Nicolai Poliakoff
Roy Plomley's castaway is Coco the Clown - Nicolai Poliakoff.
Favourite track: Black Eyes by Balalaika Orchestra
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Writing materials
23.12.1963 • 23 Protokoll, 54 Sekunden
Gordon Pirie
Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Gordon Pirie.
Favourite track: The Very Thought of You by Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra
Book: Gray's Anatomy
Luxury: Motor car
18.11.1963 • 22 Protokoll, 3 Sekunden
Sir Charles MacLean
Roy Plomley's castaway is Chief Scout Sir Charles MacLean.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in F Minor (Toccata) by Charles Marie Widor
Book: Volumes of The Illustrated London News
Luxury: Piano
12.8.1963 • 23 Protokoll, 42 Sekunden
David Frost
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost.
Favourite track: Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf
Book: The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Luxury: Potato crisps
15.4.1963 • 21 Protokoll, 23 Sekunden
Antony Hopkins
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer, conductor and pianist Antony Hopkins.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert
Book: Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
Luxury: Piano
1.10.1962 • 23 Protokoll, 49 Sekunden
Ken Sykora
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Ken Sykora.
Favourite track: Nuages by Django Reinhardt
Book: Science for the Citizen
Luxury: Guitar
22.1.1962 • 24 Protokoll, 31 Sekunden
Gracie Fields
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Gracie Fields.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Reproduction of Renoir's The Picnic
25.12.1961 • 22 Protokoll, 51 Sekunden
Wee Georgie Wood
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Wee Georgie Wood.
Favourite track: Private Lives Act 1 by Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence
Book: Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
Luxury: Writing materials