Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980
Storytelling Podcasts
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Location:
United States
Description:
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Language:
English
Episodes
Clive James
2/16/2017
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster and writer Clive James.
Favourite track: Baby Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes Book: Book about how to build a plane out of palm fronds and coconut fibre by Willy Messerschmitt Luxury: Space invaders
Duration:00:39:42
Placido Domingo
12/27/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Placido Domingo.
Favourite track: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Luxury: Video player and cassettes of his own performances
Duration:00:34:40
Arthur Askey
12/20/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Arthur Askey.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Guinness Book of Records Luxury: Piano
Duration:00:33:57
Neville Marriner
12/13/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Neville Marriner.
Favourite track: There Is No Rose by King's College Chapel Choir Book: Life On Earth by David Attenborough Luxury: Violin
Duration:00:34:43
Jose Carreras
12/6/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Jose Carreras.
Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini Book: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore Luxury: Velazquez, Les Hilanderas
Duration:00:30:54
Tom Conti
11/22/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.
Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Summerhill by A S Neill Luxury: Piano
Duration:00:33:47
Mark Elder
11/8/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is musical director of the English National Opera Mark Elder.
Favourite track: I Used To Be Colour Blind by Fred Astaire Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Sherry
Duration:00:34:00
Derek Tangye
11/1/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Derek Tangye.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Astronomical telescope
Duration:00:34:56
Catherine Gaskin
10/25/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Catherine Gaskin.
Favourite track: String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Story of Civilization by William Durant Luxury: Piano
Duration:00:40:05
Brian Glover
10/18/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Brian Glover.
Favourite track: Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan Book: Card Games by John Scarne Luxury: MGTD 2952 car
Duration:00:30:50
Sir John Tooley
10/11/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Tooley
Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Sugared apricots
Duration:00:34:28
Ronald Lockley
10/4/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and writer Ronald Lockley.
Favourite track: Prelude A L'Apres Midi D'Un Faune by Claude Debussy Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White Luxury: Telescope
Duration:00:35:25
Andrea Newman
9/27/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and TV writer Andrea Newman.
Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss Book: The Weather in the Streets by Rosamund Lehmann Luxury: Champagne
Duration:00:37:01
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
9/20/1980
Roy Plomley's castaways are producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne and Herzog by Saul Bellow Luxury: Brandy and a blank log book
Duration:00:34:33
Earl Of Snowdon
9/6/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Earl Of Snowdon.
Favourite track: Swan Lake (Finale) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher Luxury: Painting Materials
Duration:00:35:13
Renata Scotto
8/30/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Renata Scotto.
Favourite track: Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata by Giacomo Puccini Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Luxury: Silver shadow Rolls Royce
Duration:00:33:10
Tristan Jones
8/23/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and writer Tristan Jones.
Favourite track: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Modern wooden yacht construction Luxury: 12 foot by 8 foot Union Jack
Duration:00:35:42
Stephen Sondheim
8/16/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Stephen Sondheim.
Favourite track: Porgy and Bess by Lawrence Winters and Others Book: Collected works by E B White Luxury: Piano
Duration:00:32:31
William Trevor
8/9/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor.
Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler Luxury: Grapevines
Duration:00:32:33
Gregory Peck
8/2/1980
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Gregory Peck.
Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild
Duration:00:43:57