Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Storytelling Podcasts
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Location:
United States
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Language:
English
Episodes
Bing Crosby
12/29/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Bing Crosby.
Favourite track: South Rampart Street Parade by Bob Crosby and his Bobcats Book: Roget's Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Guitar
Duration:00:20:32
Stanley Holloway
10/27/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and musician Stanley Holloway.
Favourite track: And This Is My Beloved by Doretta Morrow Book: A book on the musical plays of the last century Luxury: Manicure and pedicure set
Duration:00:22:30
John Julius Norwich
10/20/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is producer John Julius Norwich.
Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Writing materials
Duration:00:23:44
C P Snow
8/2/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer C P Snow.
Favourite track: Henry IV Part II (Act 3, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare Book: Russian grammar Luxury: Writing materials
Duration:00:24:56
Anthony Dowell
7/28/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Anthony Dowell.
Favourite track: The Prince Of The Pagodas by Benjamin Britten Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Radio receiver
Duration:00:22:41
Helen Bradley
7/5/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Helen Bradley.
Favourite track: Trois Gymnopédies by Satie Book: A great tome on the law Luxury: A soap that kills mosquitoes
Duration:00:26:03
John Arlott
5/19/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott.
Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Champagne
Duration:00:21:24
Ben Travers
5/10/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is farce writer Ben Travers.
Favourite track: My Love Parade by Maurice Chevalier Book: The collected works by Robert Browning Luxury: Pipes and tobacco
Duration:00:25:31
Patricia Hayes
4/21/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Patricia Hayes.
Favourite track: Nocturne No. 8 In D Flat (Opus 72) by Frédéric Chopin Book: Kristin Lauransdatter by Sigrid Undset Luxury: Four-poster bed
Duration:00:22:18
Sir John Betjeman
4/12/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman.
Favourite track: Ombra Mai Fù by George Frideric Handel Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave Luxury: Champagne
Duration:00:23:52
Emlyn Williams
2/15/1975
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Emlyn Williams.
Favourite track: Elizabethan Serenade by Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra Book: Dictionary Luxury: Typewriter, pen, paper
Duration:00:25:42
Polly James
10/19/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Polly James.
Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini Book: Victoria RI by Countess Elizabeth Longford Luxury: Group photograph of friends
Duration:00:21:22
Richard Walker
7/6/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is angler Richard Walker.
Favourite track: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini Book: Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling Luxury: Benvenuto Cellini's Golden Salt Cellar
Duration:00:22:33
Leslie Mitchell
6/1/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Leslie Mitchell.
Favourite track: Summer Night On The River by Frederick Delius Book: Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci Luxury: Silver box containing a miniature singing bird
Duration:00:24:42
James Stewart
5/27/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart.
Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury: Piano
Duration:00:24:11
David Dimbleby
4/29/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster David Dimbleby.
Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and Strings by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Havana cigars
Duration:00:22:17
Philip Hope-Wallace
4/1/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Philip Hope-Wallace.
Favourite track: Dies Irae and Salve Me by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Ivory chess set
Duration:00:22:20
Brian Johnston
3/16/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Brian Johnston.
Favourite track: Double Damask by Cicely Courtneidge & Ivor McLaren Book: Funny Way to be a Hero by James Fisher Luxury: Automatic bowling machine & cricket balls
Duration:00:19:57
Eddie Waring
2/25/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is commentator Eddie Waring.
Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Bradshaw's Railway Timetable Luxury: Couch
Duration:00:18:41
Roy Fox
2/16/1974
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Roy Fox.
Favourite track: Whispering by Roy Fox and his Orchestra Book: Volume of crossword puzzles Luxury: Radio receiver
Duration:00:23:47