Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Moira Anderson
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Moira Anderson.
Favourite track: Dr MacLeod's Fancy by John Ellis & Highland Country Dance Band
Book: Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell
Luxury: Bathroom suite
13-12-1969 • 6 minuten, 10 seconden
Lillian Board
Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Lillian Board.
Favourite track: Theme From Zorba the Greek by Theodorakis
Book: Family photograph album
Luxury: Bed
29-11-1969 • 8 minuten, 37 seconden
Irmgard Seefried
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Irmgard Seefried.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major (Opus 61) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Herr, Hier Bin Ich (Prayers of Life)
Luxury: String of pearls
22-11-1969 • 7 minuten, 52 seconden
Anthony Grey
Roy Plomley's castaway is foreign correspondent Anthony Grey.
Favourite track: Concerto Grosso in C Major by George Frideric Handel
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Book stall in Victoria station
1-11-1969 • 19 minuten, 24 seconden
Cliff Morgan
Roy Plomley's castaway is rugby player Cliff Morgan.
Favourite track: Westminster (Narration with Sound Effects) by Hywel Davies
Book: Teach-yourself encyclopaedia
Luxury: Piano
27-9-1969 • 7 minuten, 35 seconden
Des O'Connor
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actor Des O'Connor.
Favourite track: Caught in the Act by Victor Borge
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Daily delivery of The Sporting Life
1-9-1969 • 3 minuten, 28 seconden
Olivia Manning
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist Olivia Manning.
Favourite track: The Swan of Tuonela (Opus 22 No 2) by Jean Sibelius
Book: Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson
Luxury: Clue to buried treasure
25-8-1969 • 7 minuten, 38 seconden
Rachael Heyhoe
Roy Plomley's castaway is women's cricket captain Rachael Heyhoe.
Favourite track: Nursery School by Joyce Grenfell
Book: Book on desert island cookery
Luxury: Ukelele
28-7-1969 • 1 minuut, 48 seconden
Vincent Price
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Vincent Price.
Favourite track: America the Beautiful by Vincent Price
Book: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Luxury: Double bed
14-7-1969 • 4 minuten, 34 seconden
Dr Elsie Hall
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Dr Elsie Hall.
Favourite track: Symphony No 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Billiard table, cue and balls
28-4-1969 • 20 minuten, 36 seconden
Lady Diana Cooper
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actress Lady Diana Cooper.
Favourite track: Die Walkure - Wotan Puts Brunnhilde to Sleep by Richard Wagner
Book: Volumes of her autobiography
Luxury: Bag of pillows, in which she will smuggle in her dog
24-3-1969 • 20 minuten, 50 seconden
Mary Wilson
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Mary Wilson.
Favourite track: Faust (Final Chorus) by Charles Gounod
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Luxury: Make-up set, mirror and comb
10-3-1969 • 9 minuten, 13 seconden
Edward Downes
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Edward Downes.
Favourite track: Bailero by Mardeleine Grey
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Chinese language course
17-2-1969 • 9 minuten, 43 seconden
Lord David Cecil
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Lord David Cecil.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Donatello's great altar in St Anthony's Church, Padua
3-2-1969 • 6 minuten, 19 seconden
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Maggie Fitzgibbon.
Favourite track: Paddlin' Madelin' Home by Graham 'Smacka' Fitzgibbon
Book: The Birdman of Alcatraz by Robert Stroud
Luxury: Alabaster cherub
27-1-1969 • 6 minuten, 47 seconden
Rosea Kemp
Roy Plomley's castaway is weather forecaster Rosea Kemp.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Enquire Within Upon Everything
Luxury: Four poster bed
25-12-1968 • 5 minuten, 7 seconden
Sir Paul Gore-Booth
Roy Plomley's castaway is Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Paul Gore-Booth.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Books by Mary Baker Eddy
Luxury: Piano
13-11-1968 • 23 minuten, 33 seconden
Billy Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Billy Russell.
Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Gracie Fields
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Painting materials
7-10-1968 • 5 minuten, 21 seconden
Richard Rodney Bennett
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
Favourite track: Jeux by Claude Debussy
Book: The Atlantic Book by Edith Sitwell
Luxury: Piano
9-9-1968 • 6 minuten, 28 seconden
Carlo Maria Giulini
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Carlo Maria Giulini.
Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Mirror of Perfection - The Praise of Created Things by St Francis of Assisi
19-8-1968 • 15 minuten, 24 seconden
Eleanor Bron
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Eleanor Bron.
Favourite track: Im Fruhling by Franz Schubert
Book: Bi-lingual edition by Homer
Luxury: Sycamore trees
24-6-1968 • 4 minuten, 48 seconden
Sir Gordon Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Sir Gordon Russell.
Favourite track: Water Music Suite by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Luxury: Claret
3-6-1968 • 10 minuten, 5 seconden
Trevor Nunn
Roy Plomley's castaway is Royal Shakespeare Company Director Trevor Nunn.
Favourite track: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel
Book: Yoga manual
Luxury: Kingsize cigarette
20-5-1968 • 2 minuten, 18 seconden
Dame Maggie Teyte
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Dame Maggie Teyte.
15-4-1968 • 17 minuten, 52 seconden
Russell Braddon
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Russell Braddon.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: History of the World
Luxury: Red ink
8-4-1968 • 13 minuten, 26 seconden
Alfie Bass
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alfie Bass.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Encyclopaedia
1-4-1968 • 4 minuten, 8 seconden
Susan Hampshire
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Susan Hampshire.
Favourite track: Paris au Mois d'Aout by Charles Aznavour
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Painting, or a 16th-century patch box
3-2-1968 • 5 minuten, 41 seconden
John Mortimer
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright and barrister John Mortimer.
Favourite track: Voi Che Sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Marble bath with constant hot water
20-1-1968 • 10 minuten, 40 seconden
Jacques Loussier
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Jacques Loussier.
Favourite track: Come Thou, the World's Redeemer (Choral Prelude) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Men, Beasts and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Luxury: Painting of the Crucifixion by Salvador Dali
25-11-1967 • 5 minuten, 2 seconden
Irene Worth
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Irene Worth.
Favourite track: Five Pieces for Orchestra No.1 by Arnold Schoenberg
Book: Textbook on anthropology
Luxury: The Beatles new colour television show
18-11-1967 • 6 minuten, 58 seconden
Denis Matthews
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist Denis Matthews.
Favourite track: Quartet in C Sharp Minor (Opus 131) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer
Luxury: Telescope
30-10-1967 • 3 minuten, 36 seconden
Professor Sir Denis Brogan
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and broadcaster Professor Sir Denis Brogan.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: Works by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Writing materials
21-10-1967 • 2 minuten, 47 seconden
Doris Arnold
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Doris Arnold.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Luxury: Mink coat
25-9-1967 • 4 minuten, 10 seconden
Lord Ritchie-Calder
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Lord Ritchie-Calder.
Favourite track: J'Attendrai by Jean Sablon
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Tape recorder
26-6-1967 • 9 minuten, 6 seconden
John Barry
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer and conductor John Barry.
Favourite track: The Crusaders in Pskov from Alexander Nevsky, Opus 78 by Sergei Prokofiev
Book: Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
Luxury: Piano
22-5-1967 • 3 minuten, 9 seconden
Very Reverend Dr W R Matthews
Roy Plomley's castaway is the Dean of St Paul's, the Very Reverend Dr W R Matthews.
Favourite track: Gloria in Excelsis (from Mass in D) by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: Republic by Plato
Luxury: Beginner's guide to making rafts
1-5-1967 • 7 minuten, 56 seconden
John Schlesinger
Roy Plomley's castaway is film director John Schlesinger.
Favourite track: Morgen (Opus 27 No 4) by Richard Strauss
Book: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Luxury: Insect repellent
10-4-1967 • 2 minuten, 26 seconden
Rolf Harris
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician, artist and broadcaster Rolf Harris.
Favourite track: Matila by Yves Montand
Book: Dusty by Frank Dalby Davison
Luxury: Two tape recorders
3-4-1967 • 4 minuten, 19 seconden
Dick Francis
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and journalist Dick Francis.
Favourite track: I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett
Book: The Spirit of St Louis by Charles Lindbergh
Luxury: Mirror
27-3-1967 • 9 minuten, 9 seconden
Barry Briggs
Roy Plomley's castaway is world speedway champion Barry Briggs.
Favourite track: You Oughta be in Pictures by Ray Conniff & Billy Butterfield
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Surfboard
13-3-1967 • 5 minuten, 12 seconden
Richard Goolden
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Goolden.
Favourite track: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Marlene Dietrich
Book: The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Luxury: Cigars and a dinner jacket
23-1-1967 • 4 minuten, 31 seconden
Gwendoline Kirby
Roy Plomley's castaway is Matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital Gwendoline Kirby.
Favourite track: The Lord is My Shepherd (Brother James's Air) by The Orpington Junior Singers
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Field glasses
24-12-1966 • 5 minuten, 40 seconden
Jack Brabham
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jack Brabham.
Favourite track: Our Love is Here to Stay by Nat King Cole
Book: Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering
Luxury: Not required
19-12-1966 • 11 minuten, 34 seconden
Captain John Ridgway & Sargeant Chay Blyth
Roy Plomley's castaways are rowers John Ridgway & Chay Blyth.
Favourite track: Sinfonia Antarctica by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: Dictionary and Anthology of poetry
Luxury: Shaving kit and a leather armchair
5-12-1966 • 22 minuten, 2 seconden
Jacques Brunius
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Jacques Brunius.
Favourite track: West End Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
Book: Complete works by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Broken and unplayable pop record
17-10-1966 • 1 minuut, 23 seconden
Nina & Frederick
Roy Plomley's castaways are singers Nina & Frederick.
Favourite track: Qual cor, qual cor tradisti by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: I Ching and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Harp and a flute
13-6-1966 • 5 minuten, 56 seconden
Henry Cooper
Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper.
Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Book: Do-it-yourself manual
Luxury: Training gear
16-5-1966 • 7 minuten, 5 seconden
Bob & Alf Pearson
Roy Plomley's castaways are duettists Bob & Alf Pearson.
Favourite track: Tiger Rag
Book: ABC Railway Timetable and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Seeds and a piano
25-4-1966 • 5 minuten, 19 seconden
Terry Scott
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and actor Terry Scott.
Favourite track: The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: French language course
Luxury: Eau de Cologne
11-4-1966 • 5 minuten, 34 seconden
G O Nickalls
Roy Plomley's castaway is rower G O Nickalls.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Pear's Cyclopaedia
Luxury: Rembrandt's Titus
21-3-1966 • 5 minuten, 44 seconden
Sir Frank Francis
Roy Plomley's castaway is British Museum Director Sir Frank Francis.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope and the Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
14-3-1966 • 3 minuten, 40 seconden
Marie Collier
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Marie Collier.
Favourite track: Sheherazade by Maurice Ravel
Book: Mrs Mackintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young
Luxury: Etruscan frieze of horses
21-2-1966 • 15 minuten, 20 seconden
Jimmy Shand
Roy Plomley's castaway is dance band leader Jimmy Shand.
Favourite track: Welcome Christmas Morning by Jimmy Shand and his Band
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Tin whistle
1-1-1966 • 7 minuten, 1 seconde
Nadia Nerina
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Nadia Nerina.
Favourite track: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (No 30) by Benjamin Britten
Book: Illustrated book on Greek mythology
Luxury: Piece of sculpture
18-10-1965 • 7 minuten, 52 seconden
Rae Jenkins
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Rae Jenkins.
Favourite track: All the Things You Are by André Kostelanetz Orchestra
Book: The Way of a Trout with a Fly by G E M Skues
Luxury: Fly-tying materials
6-9-1965 • 7 minuten, 32 seconden
Ambrose
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Bert Ambrose.
Favourite track: The Moon was Yellow by Ambrose and his Orchestra
Book: The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
Luxury: Tea bags
2-8-1965 • 7 minuten, 3 seconden
Annie Ross
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz singer Annie Ross.
Favourite track: Good Morning, Heartache by Billie Holiday
Book: The Sun is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen
Luxury: False eyelashes
26-7-1965 • 5 minuten, 25 seconden
Sir Lewis Casson
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and director Sir Lewis Casson.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Luxury: Recorder and the 1912 portrait of Dame Sybil Thorndike
12-7-1965 • 2 minuten, 9 seconden
Joseph Szigeti
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Joseph Szigeti.
Book: Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley
Luxury: Pictures
31-5-1965 • 11 minuten, 41 seconden
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 minuten, 46 seconden
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 minuten, 11 seconden
Anatole de Grunwald
Roy Plomley's castaway is film producer Anatole de Grunwald.
Favourite track: The Way to the Stars by Two Cities Symphony
Book: Golfing stories by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Caviar
29-3-1965 • 2 minuten
Sir Paul Dukes
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and writer Sir Paul Dukes.
Favourite track: Rhythmic Headstand by Sir Paul Dukes
Book: The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
Luxury: Soap
22-2-1965 • 10 minuten, 23 seconden
Gale Pedrick
Roy Plomley's castaway is author and scriptwriter Gale Pedrick.
Favourite track: Flowers by Hermione Gingold
Book: Who's Who
Luxury: Writing materials
15-2-1965 • 9 minuten, 33 seconden
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 minuten, 5 seconden
Cilla Black
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Cilla Black.
Favourite track: Anyone Who Had a Heart by Cilla Black
Book: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Mona Lisa
24-8-1964 • 8 minuten, 17 seconden
Percy Merriman
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert performer Percy Merriman.
Favourite track: Route March by Roosters Concert Party and Military Band
Book: Dictionary of National Biography
Luxury: Field glasses
17-8-1964 • 3 minuten, 41 seconden
Dame Edith Evans
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Dame Edith Evans.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Luxury: Photographs
18-5-1964 • 14 minuten, 29 seconden
Jim Clark
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jim Clark.
Favourite track: The Party's Over by Peggy Lee
Book: At the Wheel by Jim Clark
Luxury: Radio receiver
4-5-1964 • 5 minuten, 19 seconden
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 minuten, 8 seconden
Norman Shelley
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Norman Shelley.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Painting materials
19-10-1963 • 8 minuten, 7 seconden
Sophie Tucker
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Sophie Tucker.
Favourite track: The Garden of Eden by Frankie Vaughan
Book: The Conversion of Charlie Cohen by Herbert Tarr
Luxury: Make-up
2-9-1963 • 6 minuten, 18 seconden
Ian Fleming
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ian Fleming.
Favourite track: The Darktown Strutters Ball by Joe Fingers Carr
Book: War and Peace in German by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
5-8-1963 • 9 minuten, 33 seconden
Carleton Hobbs
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Carleton Hobbs.
Favourite track: C'est Le Destin Peut-Etre by Oscar Straus
Book: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Radio receiver
27-7-1963 • 6 minuten, 51 seconden
Ken Dodd
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Ken Dodd.
Favourite track: The Floral Dance by Peter Dawson
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Tea
13-7-1963 • 7 minuten, 51 seconden
Juliette Greco
Roy Plomley's castaway is cabaret singer Juliette Greco.
Favourite track: Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Atlas
Luxury: Writing materials
8-7-1963 • 5 minuten, 42 seconden
Barry Bucknell
Roy Plomley's castaway is presenter Barry Bucknell.
Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Anthology of world poetry
Luxury: Toilet set
3-6-1963 • 4 minuten, 9 seconden
Birgit Nilsson
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Birgit Nilsson.
Favourite track: Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde) by Richard Wagner
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Swedish crossword puzzles
27-5-1963 • 7 minuten, 43 seconden
Rowland Emett
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedy cartoonist Rowland Emett.
Favourite track: Quartet No 8 in E Minor (Opus 59 No 2) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Luxury: Daughter's teddy bear
20-5-1963 • 7 minuten, 13 seconden
Professor L Dudley Stamp
Roy Plomley's castaway is geographer Professor L Dudley Stamp.
Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Everyman's Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Wine
6-5-1963 • 3 minuten, 32 seconden
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 minuten, 23 seconden
Ted Willis
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ted Willis.
Favourite track: Symphony No 2 in D Major by Jean Sibelius
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Concertina
8-4-1963 • 7 minuten, 45 seconden
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth
Roy Plomley's castaway is political cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth.
Favourite track: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Opus 68) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Instructions for making a still
Luxury: Painting materials
25-3-1963 • 2 minuten, 21 seconden
Michael Bentine
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine.
Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Painting materials
11-2-1963 • 9 minuten, 5 seconden
Noel Coward
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actor Noel Coward.
Favourite track: The Hole in the Ground by Bernard Cribbins
Book: The Human Situation by W. Macneile Dixon
Luxury: Painting materials
28-1-1963 • 8 minuten, 52 seconden
Gerry Lee
Roy Plomley's castaway is animal impersonator Gerry Lee.
Favourite track: The Flower (from Lilac Time) by Franz Schubert
Book: Quinneys by Horace Vachell
Luxury: Theatrical skip full of his animal skins
19-1-1963 • 4 minuten, 21 seconden
Basil Boothroyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and broadcaster Basil Boothroyd.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto no 23 in A Major (Orchestral Opening) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Current popular newspaper
14-1-1963 • 7 minuten, 32 seconden
George Mitchell
Roy Plomley's castaway is choirmaster George Mitchell.
Favourite track: Götterdämmerung (Closing Scene) by Richard Wagner
Book: The Ring Cycle (The Score) by Richard Wagner
Luxury: Music manuscript paper and pencils
31-12-1962 • 7 minuten, 39 seconden
Lord George Sanger
Roy Plomley's castaway is circus proprietor Lord George Sanger.
Favourite track: I'll See You Again by Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth
Book: His autobiography, Seventy Years a Showman
Luxury: Tea
22-12-1962 • 8 minuten, 54 seconden
A G Street
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and farmer A G Street.
Favourite track: Hounds in Full Cry (The Hunt) by Michael Berry
Book: Ladies Whose Bright Eyes by Ford Madox Ford
Luxury: Painting of the south Wiltshire countryside
17-12-1962 • 3 minuten, 3 seconden
Acker Bilk
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk.
Favourite track: Papa Dip by New Orleans Wanderers
Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Apple seeds
10-12-1962 • 7 minuten
Anna Russell
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Anna Russell.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Mobile from the Museum of Modern Art
3-12-1962 • 8 minuten, 10 seconden
Jack Warner
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Jack Warner.
Favourite track: The Carousel Waltz by Rodgers & Hammerstein
Book: A Tale of Two Cities in English and French by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Soap
19-11-1962 • 8 minuten, 12 seconden
George Shearing
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz pianist George Shearing.
Favourite track: Widerstehe Doch der Sunde (Cantata No 54) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat
Luxury: Metal construction set
5-11-1962 • 9 minuten, 42 seconden
Pamela Hansford-Johnson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Pamela Hansford-Johnson.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb
29-10-1962 • 6 minuten, 4 seconden
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Luxury: Skin food
8-10-1962 • 8 minuten, 17 seconden
Stanley Unwin
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Stanley Unwin.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Luxury: Painting materials
10-9-1962 • 5 minuten, 15 seconden
Lionel Tertis
Roy Plomley's castaway is violist Lionel Tertis.
Favourite track: Tambourin Chinois by Fritz Kreisler & Franz Rupp
Book: Books by H Rider Haggard and books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and books by Jules Verne
Luxury: Portrait of wife
13-8-1962 • 10 minuten, 50 seconden
Stephen Spender
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Stephen Spender.
Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: History of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt
Luxury: Painting materials
9-7-1962 • 7 minuten, 16 seconden
John Allegro
Roy Plomley's castaway is Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro.
Favourite track: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Some novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Rolls-Royce engine
25-6-1962 • 8 minuten
Giovanni Martinelli
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Giovanni Martinelli.
Favourite track: Tu, ca nun Chaigne by Enrico Caruso
Book: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Bronze statuette of David by Verrocchio
18-6-1962 • 18 minuten, 26 seconden
Eric Hosking
Roy Plomley's castaway is ornithologist Eric Hosking.
Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar
Book: Field guide to the island's birds
Luxury: Camera and film
4-6-1962 • 8 minuten, 47 seconden
Sidney Nolan
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan.
Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten
Book: Chinese language course
Luxury: Snorkel mask
21-5-1962 • 10 minuten, 54 seconden
Robert Morley
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Robert Morley.
Book: The rules of patience
Luxury: Two packs of cards with photographs of family on the backs
23-4-1962 • 10 minuten, 16 seconden
Raymond Glendenning
Roy Plomley's castaway is sports commentator Raymond Glendenning.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach/Stokowski
Book: Pears Cyclopaedia
Luxury: Watercolour paints
26-3-1962 • 8 minuten
Colonel A D Wintle
Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and writer Colonel A D Wintle.
Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Large blank book
Luxury: Dog whip
12-3-1962 • 16 minuten, 19 seconden
Sir John Gielgud
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud.
Favourite track: Double Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Watercolour of Versailles by Raoul Dufy
29-1-1962 • 10 minuten, 10 seconden
Rupert Davies
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rupert Davies.
Favourite track: Elegie by Jules Massenet
Book: Candide by Voltaire
Luxury: Lump of jade
13-11-1961 • 8 minuten, 2 seconden
Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor Sir Stephen King-Hall.
Favourite track: Jesu Maria (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: Parliamentary Practice by Thomas Erskine-May
Luxury: Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington
18-9-1961 • 6 minuten, 30 seconden
Julian Bream
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Julian Bream.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert
Book: Collection of 16th and 17th century English poetry
Luxury: Guitar, manuscript paper and pens
5-6-1961 • 17 minuten, 11 seconden
Kingsley Amis
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Kingsley Amis.
Favourite track: Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble by Bud Freeman and his Famous Chicagoans
Book: Collected poetry by Robert Graves
Luxury: American whiskey
29-5-1961 • 3 minuten, 2 seconden
Pietro Annigoni
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Pietro Annigoni.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: International timetable of ships and trains
Luxury: Drawing materials and a pillow
15-5-1961 • 6 minuten, 15 seconden
Ralph Reader
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and director Ralph Reader.
Favourite track: These are the Times by The Gang Show
Book: Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
8-5-1961 • 8 minuten, 8 seconden
James Mason
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Mason.
Favourite track: My Man by Billie Holiday
Book: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Luxury: Bagpipes
6-3-1961 • 3 minuten, 22 seconden
Ursula Bloom
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist Ursula Bloom.
Favourite track: Message to the Empire (25 December 1939) by HM King George VI
Book: Book of Common Prayer
Luxury: Writing materials
14-11-1960 • 4 minuten, 13 seconden
Danny Blanchflower
Roy Plomley's castaway is footballer Danny Blanchflower.
Favourite track: The Breeze and I by Caterina Valente
Book: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Luxury: Golf clubs and balls
15-8-1960 • 7 minuten, 54 seconden
Antal Dorati
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati.
Favourite track: O, Namenlose Freude (from Fidelio) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Personally-compiled anthology
Luxury: Painting of a sleeping girl by Dominico Feti
25-7-1960 • 14 minuten, 38 seconden
Claudio Arrau
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Claudio Arrau.
Favourite track: Symphony No 9 in C Major by Franz Schubert
Book: Works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Luxury: Early Chinese statuette
4-7-1960 • 15 minuten, 28 seconden
Sir Alec Guinness
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness.
Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Luxury: Apricot brandy
27-6-1960 • 24 minuten, 24 seconden
Julian Slade
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Julian Slade.
Favourite track: Art Thou Troubled? by George Frideric Handel
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Violin
20-6-1960 • 5 minuten, 31 seconden
Sir Adrian Boult
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
Favourite track: Symphony No 36 in C Major (Rehearsal) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Luxury: Blanket
28-3-1960 • 4 minuten, 58 seconden
Russ Conway
Roy Plomley's castaway is pop pianist Russ Conway.
Book: Omnibus edition of Hornblower stories by C.S. Forester
Luxury: Typewriter and paper
14-3-1960 • 6 minuten, 11 seconden
Sir Arthur Bryant
Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Sir Arthur Bryant.
Favourite track: Sweet Nightingale by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupre
Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Luxury: Painting by Kneller of a girl in a golden gown
22-2-1960 • 1 minuut, 48 seconden
Léon Goossens
Roy Plomley's castaway is oboist Leon Goossens.
Favourite track: I Call on Thee, O Lord (Choral Prelude) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Nautical almanac
Luxury: Camp bed