Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1960-1969: Recent Episodes
BBC Radio 4
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is athlete Lillian Board.
Favourite track: Theme From Zorba the Greek by Theodorakis Book: Family photograph album Luxury: Bed
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Edward Downes.
Favourite track: Bailero by Mardeleine Grey Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Chinese language course
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Billy Russell.
Favourite track: The Lord's Prayer by Gracie Fields Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Painting materials
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
Favourite track: Jeux by Claude Debussy Book: The Atlantic Book by Edith Sitwell Luxury: Piano
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Eleanor Bron.
Favourite track: Im Fruhling by Franz Schubert Book: Bi-lingual edition by Homer Luxury: Sycamore trees
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alfie Bass.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Encyclopaedia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper.
Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert Book: Do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Training gear
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Joseph Szigeti.
Book: Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley Luxury: Pictures
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is author and scriptwriter Gale Pedrick.
Favourite track: Flowers by Hermione Gingold Book: Who's Who Luxury: Writing materials
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Ken Dodd.
Favourite track: The Floral Dance by Peter Dawson Book: Dictionary Luxury: Tea
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine.
Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Painting materials
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan.
Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten Book: Chinese language course Luxury: Snorkel mask
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rupert Davies.
Favourite track: Elegie by Jules Massenet Book: Candide by Voltaire Luxury: Lump of jade
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is pop pianist Russ Conway.
Book: Omnibus edition of Hornblower stories by C.S. Forester Luxury: Typewriter and paper
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
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