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TitlePub. DateDuration
Clive James16 Feb 201700:39:42

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster and writer Clive James.

Favourite track: Baby Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes Book: Book about how to build a plane out of palm fronds and coconut fibre by Willy Messerschmitt Luxury: Space invaders

Placido Domingo27 Dec 198000:34:40

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Placido Domingo.

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

Sir John Tooley11 Oct 198000:34:28

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

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

Colin Wilson21 Oct 197800:26:32

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

Noel Edmonds14 Oct 197800:28:25

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

Christopher Fry07 Oct 197800:29:54

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Christopher Fry.

Favourite track: Spring Symphony by Benjamin Britten Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Rocking chair

Alec Clifton-Taylor30 Sep 197800:28:04

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

Alan Jay Lerner23 Sep 197800:28:58

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

Cathy Berberian16 Sep 197800:29:28

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian.

Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters Book: Survival manual Luxury: Box of spices

Tennessee Williams09 Sep 197800:27:09

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tennessee Williams.

Favourite track: Danny Boy by Harry Belafonte Book: Poetry by Hart Crane Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Gian Carlo Menotti02 Sep 197800:29:42

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant Luxury: Tarot cards

Rt Hon. Denis Healey26 Aug 197800:28:44

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

Fred Trueman19 Aug 197800:28:20

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

Ronald Lockley04 Oct 198000:35:25

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

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

Janet Suzman12 Aug 197800:29:05

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Janet Suzman.

Favourite track: Porgi Amor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Luxury: Mink-lined hammock

Simon Rattle05 Aug 197800:29:25

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

Barbara Pym29 Jul 197800:28:09

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

Rita Streich15 Jul 197800:28:41

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

Jane Grigson08 Jul 197800:29:25

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

Mel Brooks01 Jul 197800:30:18

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

Dr Catherine Gavin24 Jun 197800:27:50

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

Sir Clifford Curzon17 Jun 197800:30:58

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

Derek Jacobi10 Jun 197800:26:35

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

Victoria de los Angeles03 Jun 197800:29:15

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

Andrea Newman27 Sep 198000:37:01

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

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

Anna Raeburn27 May 197800:28:50

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Anna Raeburn.

Favourite track: Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin Book: Daughter of the Earth by Agnes Smedley Luxury: Indian tea

Rt. Hon. Lord Shinwell20 May 197800:29:45

Roy Plomley's castaway is politician the Rt Hon Lord Shinwell.

Favourite track: I Belong To Glasgow by Will Fyffe Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Whisky

Sir Lennox Berkeley13 May 197800:30:27

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.

Favourite track: Petite Symphonie Concertante by Frank Martin Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Painting of a restaurant on the banks of the Marne

Charles Aznavour06 May 197800:27:15

Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actor Charles Aznavour.

Favourite track: Kalinka by Red Army Ensemble Book: French dictionary Luxury: Tape recorder

Itzhak Perlman29 Apr 197800:30:09

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Favourite track: Ich Habe Genug by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Luxury: Violin, strings and case

Robert Hardy22 Apr 197800:31:20

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Hardy.

Favourite track: String Quartet No. 13 in B Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: French dictionary Luxury: Greek sculpture of a female head

Sir John Glubb15 Apr 197800:30:25

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Sir John Glubb.

Favourite track: Serenade In G Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Other Men's Flowers by Lord A P Wavell Luxury: Paper and ballpoint pens

Les Dawson08 Apr 197800:26:59

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Les Dawson.

Favourite track: Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte by Maurice Ravel Book: Trustee From The Toolroom by Nevil Shute Luxury: Piece of Georgian furniture

Felicity Kendal01 Apr 197800:28:26

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Felicity Kendal.

Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Plays and Prefaces by George Bernard Shaw Luxury: Perfume

David Wall25 Mar 197800:28:49

Roy Plomley's castaway is ballet dancer David Wall.

Favourite track: Kullervo Symphony by Jean Sibelius Book: Book on Claude Monet Luxury: Carbonated-drink maker and supply of flavourings

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger20 Sep 198000:34:33

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser18 Mar 197800:29:56

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer George MacDonald Fraser.

Favourite track: Theme From The Adventures Of Robin Hood by National Philharmonic Orchestra Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Typewriter, spare ribbons and paper

Rt Rev. And Rt Hon. Gerald Ellison11 Mar 197800:29:22

Roy Plomley's castaway is Bishop of London Gerald Ellison.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in A Flat by Edward Elgar Book: Music Criticisms 1888-89 by George Bernard Shaw Luxury: Trombone

Paco Peña04 Mar 197800:26:30

Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Paco Pena.

Favourite track: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro In E Flat Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Collected poetry by Frederico Garcia Lorca Luxury: Painting of his family by Aurelio

Professor J H Plumb25 Feb 197800:28:46

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Professor J H Plumb.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Correspondence by Voltaire Luxury: Dozen cases of Chateau Latour '61

Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher18 Feb 197800:29:55

Roy Plomley's castaway is Leader of the Opposition the Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Survival manual Luxury: Photo album of her children

Amadeus String Quartet11 Feb 197800:31:07

Roy Plomley's castaways are the musicians the Amadeus String Quartet.

Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust and Instrument-making and Divine Comedy (in Italian with dictionary) by Dante Alighieri and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Projector, viola, radio, paper and pencils

Spike Milligan04 Feb 197800:26:58

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Spike Milligan.

Favourite track: Yesterday by The Beatles Book: Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Luxury: Barclaycard

Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson28 Jan 197800:27:46

Roy Plomley's castaways are theatre historians Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson.

Favourite track: The Ride Of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner Book: Photo albums and A set of Who's Who in the Theatre Luxury: Couch and coconut oil and an ultra-sensitive receiver to hear voices from the past

Alan Coren21 Jan 197800:27:54

Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of Punch Alan Coren.

Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Omar Sharif14 Jan 197800:27:05

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Omar Sharif.

Favourite track: All The Way by Frank Sinatra Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Luxury: Several decks of cards

Earl Of Snowdon06 Sep 198000:35:13

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

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

Franco Zeffirelli07 Jan 197800:30:47

Roy Plomley's castaway is film director Franco Zeffirelli.

Favourite track: Les Tringles Des Sistres by Georges Bizet Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Perfume

Dorothy Edwards31 Dec 197700:27:18

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Edwards.

Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Sir Alec Guinness24 Dec 197700:31:03

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness.

Favourite track: Sonata No. 32 in C Minor (Opus 111) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch Luxury: Leather wallet containing photos of family & dog

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