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Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
BBC Radio 4
55 episodes
4 months ago

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island

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Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island

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Society & Culture
Episodes (20/55)
Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Bing Crosby

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

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49 years ago
20 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
John Julius Norwich

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

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49 years ago
23 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
C P Snow

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

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49 years ago
24 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Anthony Dowell

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

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49 years ago
22 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Helen Bradley

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

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49 years ago
26 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
John Arlott

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott.

Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Champagne

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49 years ago
21 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Ben Travers

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

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49 years ago
25 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Sir John Betjeman

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

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50 years ago
23 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Emlyn Williams

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

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50 years ago
25 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Polly James

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

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50 years ago
21 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Richard Walker

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

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50 years ago
22 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Leslie Mitchell

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

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50 years ago
24 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
David Dimbleby

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

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51 years ago
22 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Philip Hope-Wallace

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

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51 years ago
22 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Brian Johnston

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

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51 years ago
19 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Roy Fox

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

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51 years ago
23 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Sir Terence Rattigan

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Sir Terence Rattigan.

Favourite track: Forty Years On by Harrow School Boys Book: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Dom Perignon Champagne

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51 years ago
25 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Dr Jacob Bronowski

Roy Plomley's castaway is scientist and broadcaster Dr Jacob Bronowski.

Favourite track: Se Vuol Ballare by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Volume on chess championship play Luxury: Antique chess set

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51 years ago
24 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
John Mills

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor John Mills.

Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: Book on zoology Luxury: Piano

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51 years ago
8 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975
Arnold Ridley

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Arnold Ridley.

Favourite track: Tannhäuser (Overture) by Richard Wagner Book: Bradshaw's Railway Timetable Luxury: Wine-making kit

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51 years ago
8 minutes

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island