Desert Island Discs

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2.000 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud

1. Morris West

   27 juni 1981 · 33 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Morris West. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Book: Meditations Upon Our Human Condition by John Donne
   Luxury: Pencils and paper

2. Giuseppe Di Stefano

   20 juni 1981 · 35 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Qui La Voce Sua Soave by Vincenzo Bellini
   Book: Maria by Arianna Stassinopoulos
   Luxury: Roulette table

3. Richard Leakey

   13 juni 1981 · 36 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is anthropologist Richard Leakey. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Solo Whale by Frank Watlington
   Book: Touch The Earth by T C McLuhan
   Luxury: Pillow

4. Rt Hon William Whitelaw

   6 juni 1981 · 36 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is Home Secretary The Rt Hon William Whitelaw. Lees meer

   Favourite track: White Christmas by Bing Crosby
   Book: The World That Fred Made by Bernard Darwin
   Luxury: Bath with a hot water system

5. Eric Shilling

   30 mei 1981 · 34 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is bass singer Eric Shilling. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Deh Vieni Non Tardar by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Book: Collin's Albatross Book of Verse by Louis Untermeyer
   Luxury: Astronomical telescope

6. Edmund Rubbra

   23 mei 1981 · 35 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Edmund Rubbra. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Symphony No .9 In C by Franz Schubert
   Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
   Luxury: Music manuscript paper

7. Sir John Gielgud

   16 mei 1981 · 41 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
   Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust

8. Buddy Rich

   9 mei 1981 · 32 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader and drummer Buddy Rich. Lees meer

   Favourite track: The Girl On The Rock by Ralph Brewster Singers
   Book: The Story of O by Pauline Reage
   Luxury: Ferrari

9. Sir Frederick Ashton

   2 mei 1981 · 34 min

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   Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton. Lees meer

   Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
   Luxury: Cards

10. Stewart Granger

    25 april 1981 · 44 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Stewart Granger. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Collected works by Ernest Hemingway
    Luxury: Gold statuette of Sir Winston Churchill

11. Princess Grace of Monaco

    18 april 1981 · 31 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is Princess Grace Of Monaco. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Berceuse In D Flat by Frédéric Chopin
    Book: Plays by George Kelly
    Luxury: Pillow

12. Sir Fitzroy MacLean

    11 april 1981 · 36 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Sir Fitzroy MacLean. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    Luxury: Writing materials

13. Patricia Ruanne

    28 maart 1981 · 36 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is ballerina Patricia Ruanne. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Ballet Suite by Sergei Prokofiev
    Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
    Luxury: Sunglasses

14. Russell Harty

    21 maart 1981 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Russell Harty. Lees meer

    Favourite track: In The Bleak Midwinter by King's College Chapel Choir
    Book: A History of Craven by E T Whittaker
    Luxury: Flagpole and Union Jack

15. Peter Nichols

    14 maart 1981 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Nichols. Lees meer

    Favourite track: He Trusted In God by George Frideric Handel
    Book: Collected essays by George Orwell
    Luxury: Vibraphone

16. Daniel Massey

    7 maart 1981 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Daniel Massey. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Ego by James Agate
    Luxury: Wine

17. Carla Lane

    28 februari 1981 · 42 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and comedian Carla Lane. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Book: Dictionary of quotations
    Luxury: French Shampoo

18. Frederic Raphael

    21 februari 1981 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Frederic Raphael. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin Dvořák
    Book: Bilingual edition of poetry by Giorgos Seferis
    Luxury: Painting Materials

19. David Broome

    14 februari 1981 · 31 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is show jumper David Broome. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Hymns and Arias by Max Boyce
    Book: Collected Speeches by Sir Winston Churchill
    Luxury: Wine

20. Mary O'Hara

    7 februari 1981 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Mary O'Hara. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
    Luxury: Tennis practice equipment

21. Jeffrey Archer

    31 januari 1981 · 38 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and former MP Jeffrey Archer. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Help! by The Beatles
    Book: Reunion by Fred Uhlman
    Luxury: Plasticine model of Roy Plomley and a pin

22. Joan Plowright

    24 januari 1981 · 37 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joan Plowright. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Symphony No. 6 In F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Three novels by Aldous Huxley
    Luxury: Piano

23. HRH Princess Margaret

    17 januari 1981 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is HRH Princess Margaret. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    Luxury: Piano

24. John Fowles

    10 januari 1981 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer John Fowles. Lees meer

    Book: Dictionary of National Biography
    Luxury: Field glasses

25. Robin Cousins

    3 januari 1981 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is ice-skating champion Robin Cousins. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Carmen Ballet by Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
    Book: Shogun by James Clavell
    Luxury: Marzipan

26. Placido Domingo

    27 december 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Placido Domingo. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Luxury: Video player and cassettes of his own performances

27. Arthur Askey

    20 december 1980 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Arthur Askey. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Book: Guinness Book of Records
    Luxury: Piano

28. Neville Marriner

    13 december 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Neville Marriner. Lees meer

    Favourite track: There Is No Rose by King's College Chapel Choir
    Book: Life On Earth by David Attenborough
    Luxury: Violin

29. Jose Carreras

    6 december 1980 · 31 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Jose Carreras. Lees meer

    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

30. Alan Minter

    29 november 1980 · 30 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is boxer Alan Minter. Lees meer

    Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra
    Book: Survival manual
    Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio

31. Tom Conti

    22 november 1980 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
    Book: Summerhill by A S Neill
    Luxury: Piano

32. Jacquetta Hawkes

    15 november 1980 · 30 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: Collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Luxury: Wine

33. Mark Elder

    8 november 1980 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is musical director of the English National Opera Mark Elder. Lees meer

    Favourite track: I Used To Be Colour Blind by Fred Astaire
    Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    Luxury: Sherry

34. Derek Tangye

    1 november 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Derek Tangye. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
    Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
    Luxury: Astronomical telescope

35. Catherine Gaskin

    25 oktober 1980 · 40 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Catherine Gaskin. Lees meer

    Favourite track: String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: The Story of Civilization by William Durant
    Luxury: Piano

36. Brian Glover

    18 oktober 1980 · 31 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Brian Glover. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
    Book: Card Games by John Scarne
    Luxury: MGTD 2952 car

37. Sir John Tooley

    11 oktober 1980 · 34 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Tooley Lees meer

    Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
    Luxury: Sugared apricots

38. Ronald Lockley

    4 oktober 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and writer Ronald Lockley. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Prelude A L'Apres Midi D'Un Faune by Claude Debussy
    Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
    Luxury: Telescope

39. Andrea Newman

    27 september 1980 · 37 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and TV writer Andrea Newman. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss
    Book: The Weather in the Streets by Rosamund Lehmann
    Luxury: Champagne

40. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

    20 september 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaways are producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Lees meer

    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

41. Antal Dorati

    13 september 1980 · 26 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Rondo Capriccioso by Felix Mendelssohn
    Book: The Golden Man by Yokoi
    Luxury: Italian landscape drawing from his collection

42. Earl Of Snowdon

    6 september 1980 · 35 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Earl Of Snowdon. Lees meer

    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

43. Renata Scotto

    30 augustus 1980 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Renata Scotto. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata by Giacomo Puccini
    Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    Luxury: Silver shadow Rolls Royce

44. Tristan Jones

    23 augustus 1980 · 36 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and writer Tristan Jones. Lees meer

    Favourite track: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Book: Modern wooden yacht construction
    Luxury: 12 foot by 8 foot Union Jack

45. Stephen Sondheim

    16 augustus 1980 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Stephen Sondheim. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Porgy and Bess by Lawrence Winters and Others
    Book: Collected works by E B White
    Luxury: Piano

46. William Trevor

    9 augustus 1980 · 33 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms
    Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler
    Luxury: Grapevines

47. Gregory Peck

    2 augustus 1980 · 44 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Gregory Peck. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Book: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
    Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild

48. David Scott Blackhall

    26 juli 1980 · 31 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Scott Blackhall. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Our Love Is Here To Stay by George Gershwin
    Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
    Luxury: Perkins Brailler and paper

49. Daley Thompson

    19 juli 1980 · 20 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is World Champion decathlete Daley Thompson. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Unchained Melody by George Benson
    Book: Novels by John Wyndham
    Luxury: Guitar and instruction book

50. Tom Lehrer

    12 juli 1980 · 30 min

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    Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tom Lehrer. Lees meer

    Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss
    Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
    Luxury: Piano