Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
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
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
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
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
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
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott.
Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Champagne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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