Synopsis
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
Episodes
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Sir Paul Gore-Booth
13/11/1968 Duration: 23minRoy Plomley's castaway is Head of the Diplomatic Service Sir Paul Gore-Booth.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Books by Mary Baker Eddy Luxury: Piano
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Richard Baker
28/10/1968 Duration: 20minRoy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Richard Baker.Favourite track: Symphony No 40 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Novels by Jane Austen Luxury: Bed
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Marty Feldman
23/09/1968 Duration: 23minRoy Plomley's castaway is scriptwriter Marty Feldman.Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor for Oboe, Strings and Continuo (Opus 9 No 2) by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Luxury: Piano
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Louis Armstrong
25/08/1968 Duration: 25minRoy Plomley's castaway is jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.Favourite track: Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars Book: His own autobiography Luxury: Trumpet
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Dame Gladys Cooper
23/12/1967 Duration: 03minRoy Plomley's castaway is actress Dame Gladys Cooper.Favourite track: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Frederick Delius Book: Anthology of poetry Luxury: Tape recorder
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Fenella Fielding
05/06/1967 Duration: 21minRoy Plomley's castaway is actress Fenella Fielding.Favourite track: Long Long Summer by Dizzy Gillespie Book: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Luxury: French silk-lined leather gloves
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Georg Solti
26/12/1966 Duration: 24minRoy Plomley's castaway is conductor Georg Solti.Favourite track: Falstaff (Act 2 Scene 1) by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Michelangelo's The Last Judgement
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Derek Oldham
12/09/1966 Duration: 23minRoy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Derek Oldham.Favourite track: Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Insect repellent
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Bill Simpson
30/05/1966 Duration: 22minRoy Plomley's castaway is actor Bill Simpson.Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Songs and poems by Robert Burns Luxury: Sports equipment
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Andrew Cruickshank
14/02/1966 Duration: 24minRoy Plomley's castaway is actor Andrew Cruickshank.Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Journal by Søren Kierkegaard Luxury: Renoir's The Bar at the Folies Bergere
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Patience Strong
10/01/1966 Duration: 25minRoy Plomley's castaway is poet Patience Strong.Favourite track: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo) by Felix Mendelssohn Book: Complete works by William Wordsworth Luxury: Indian painting showing the Crucifixion
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Earl of Harewood
25/12/1965 Duration: 23minRoy Plomley's castaway is writer and musician Earl of Harewood.Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163 D 956) by Franz Schubert Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Typewriter