Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Colin Wilson. Favourite track: String Quartet in F by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Travels in the Arabian Desert by Charles Montagu Doughty Luxury: Supply of Beaujolais

Roy Plomley's castaway is DJ and TV presenter Noel Edmonds. Favourite track: Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce Book: Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Motorway service station

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Christopher Fry. Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Rocking chair

Roy Plomley's castaway is architectural historian Alec Clifton-Taylor. Favourite track: Intermezzo In C Major by Johannes Brahms Book: Set of the Shell County Guides Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. Favourite track: Mack The Knife by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars Book: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Luxury: Piano with wife's picture attached

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian. Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters Book: Survival manual Luxury: Box of spices

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tennessee Williams. Favourite track: Danny Boy by Harry Belafonte Book: Poetry by Hart Crane Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant Luxury: Tarot cards

Roy Plomley's castaway is Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey. Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Poetry by W B Yeats Luxury: Oil painting equipment

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Fred Trueman. Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In E Minor by Antonin Dvořák Book: Memoirs by Harold Macmillan Luxury: Pair of binoculars

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Janet Suzman. Favourite track: Porgi Amor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Luxury: Mink-lined hammock

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Simon Rattle. Favourite track: String Quartet in B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The I Ching Luxury: German white wine

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Barbara Pym. Favourite track: In The Bleak Midwinter by King's College Chapel Choir Book: The Golden Bowl by Henry James Luxury: German white wine

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Rita Streich. Favourite track: Symphony No. 36 In C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Nonsense of Dying by Malford Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is cookery expert Jane Grigson. Favourite track: Hollowed Stone by Geoffrey Grigson Book: Notes from an Odd Country by Geoffrey Grigson Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Mel Brooks. Favourite track: Can't We Talk It Over? by Bing Crosby Book: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and historian Dr Catherine Gavin. Favourite track: La Marseillaise by Rouget De Lisle Book: Letters by Queen Victoria Luxury: Camille Pissarro, On the Banks of the Marne

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Sir Clifford Curzon. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Pill to put him to sleep forever

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Derek Jacobi. Favourite track: There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner by Noel Coward Book: The complete works by Lord Byron Luxury: Waterbed

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Victoria de los Angeles. Favourite track: Sound Effects: Birds, Animals, Crowds, Traffic Book: Poetry in Spanish & German by Raine Maria Rilke Luxury: The Nike of Samothrace, in the Louvre