Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

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Sinopsis

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

Episodios

  • Sir Peter Parker

    12/01/1980 Duración: 33min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is chairman of British Rail Sir Peter Parker. Favourite track: Oboe Quartet in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The collected works by William Blake Luxury: Gold rail pass

  • Reginald Goodall

    05/01/1980 Duración: 28min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Reginald Goodall. Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton Luxury: An English garden

  • Sir Osbert Lancaster

    22/12/1979 Duración: 32min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster. Favourite track: Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Live sturgeon

  • Norman Mailer

    15/12/1979 Duración: 31min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Norman Mailer. Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Luxury: Stick of the best marijuana

  • Elisabeth Soderstrom

    08/12/1979 Duración: 32min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom. Favourite track: The Age Of Gold by Dmitri Shostakovich Book: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Luxury: Bed

  • Charles Causley

    01/12/1979 Duración: 31min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Charles Causley. Favourite track: The Play Of Daniel Overture by Ensemble Hortus Musicus Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Piano

  • Peter Shaffer

    24/11/1979 Duración: 32min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Shaffer. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 9 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Claude Monet, Dawn on the Seine

  • Michael Palin

    17/11/1979 Duración: 30min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and writer Michael Palin. Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Luxury: Bed

  • Marti Caine

    10/11/1979 Duración: 29min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and musician Marti Caine. Favourite track: Coming Home by Marshall Hain Book: Glory Road by Robert Heinlein Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water and bubble bath

  • Sian Phillips

    03/11/1979 Duración: 31min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Sian Phillips. Favourite track: Summer by Alexander Glazunov Book: Scouting For Boys by Robert Baden-Powell Luxury: Solar-powered refrigerator full of champagne

  • Roald Dahl

    27/10/1979 Duración: 33min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is children's writer Roald Dahl. Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner Luxury: Still, grapevine cuttings and tobacco seeds

  • Rex Harrison

    20/10/1979 Duración: 30min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rex Harrison. Favourite track: A Lull At Dawn by Barney Bigard and his Orchestra Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Luxury: Painting equipment for oils and watercolours

  • Josephine Barstow

    13/10/1979 Duración: 31min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Josephine Barstow. Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Michelangelo's David

  • Wilfred Thesiger

    06/10/1979 Duración: 33min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger. Favourite track: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Supply of acid drops

  • June Mendoza

    11/09/1979 Duración: 29min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is portrait painter June Mendoza. Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten Book: The Penguin Chronology of the Modern World by Neville Williams Luxury: Canvases, brushes and paint

  • Peter Barkworth

    04/09/1979 Duración: 29min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Peter Barkworth. Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat by Edward Elgar Book: His diaries to date Luxury: Beautifully bound blank book and ballpoint pens

  • Barry Norman

    25/08/1979 Duración: 29min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Barry Norman. Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The World of Jeeves by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Typewriter, paper and a desk with cricket balls in the drawers

  • Boris Christoff

    18/08/1979 Duración: 31min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is opera singer Boris Christoff. Favourite track: Prendi I'Anel Ti Dono (from La Sonnambula) by Vincenzo Bellini Book: The Poetry by Yuarroros

  • Countess Elizabeth Longford

    11/08/1979 Duración: 29min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Countess Elizabeth Longford. Favourite track: Air (from Water Music Suite) by Handel/Harty Book: Utopia by Thomas Moore Luxury: Tapestry making kit

  • Sir Ralph Richardson

    04/08/1979 Duración: 29min

    Besides choosing the eight records he would take to the mythical island, Sir Ralph Richardson talks to Roy Plomley about his early life in an insurance office, about some of the many films and plays in which he has acted, and about the National Theatre where he was appearing at the time. Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Novels by Henry James Luxury: Pipes and tobacco

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