Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1960-1969

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Sinopse

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

Episódios

  • Richard Goolden

    23/01/1967 Duração: 04min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Goolden. Favourite track: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Marlene Dietrich Book: The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb Luxury: Cigars and a dinner jacket

  • Gwendoline Kirby

    24/12/1966 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is Matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital Gwendoline Kirby. Favourite track: The Lord is My Shepherd (Brother James's Air) by The Orpington Junior Singers Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Field glasses

  • Jack Brabham

    19/12/1966 Duração: 11min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jack Brabham. Favourite track: Our Love is Here to Stay by Nat King Cole Book: Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering Luxury: Not required

  • Captain John Ridgway & Sargeant Chay Blyth

    05/12/1966 Duração: 22min

    Roy Plomley's castaways are rowers John Ridgway & Chay Blyth. Favourite track: Sinfonia Antarctica by Ralph Vaughan Williams Book: Dictionary and Anthology of poetry Luxury: Shaving kit and a leather armchair

  • Jacques Brunius

    17/10/1966 Duração: 01min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Jacques Brunius. Favourite track: West End Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven Book: Complete works by Lewis Carroll Luxury: Broken and unplayable pop record

  • Nina & Frederick

    13/06/1966 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaways are singers Nina & Frederick. Favourite track: Qual cor, qual cor tradisti by Vincenzo Bellini Book: I Ching and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Harp and a flute

  • Henry Cooper

    16/05/1966 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper. Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert Book: Do-it-yourself manual Luxury: Training gear

  • Bob & Alf Pearson

    25/04/1966 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaways are duettists Bob & Alf Pearson. Favourite track: Tiger Rag Book: ABC Railway Timetable and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Seeds and a piano

  • Terry Scott

    11/04/1966 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and actor Terry Scott. Favourite track: The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: French language course Luxury: Eau de Cologne

  • G O Nickalls

    21/03/1966 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is rower G O Nickalls. Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Pear's Cyclopaedia Luxury: Rembrandt's Titus

  • Sir Frank Francis

    14/03/1966 Duração: 03min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is British Museum Director Sir Frank Francis. Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope and the Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

  • Marie Collier

    21/02/1966 Duração: 15min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Marie Collier. Favourite track: Sheherazade by Maurice Ravel Book: Mrs Mackintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young Luxury: Etruscan frieze of horses

  • Jimmy Shand

    01/01/1966 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is dance band leader Jimmy Shand. Favourite track: Welcome Christmas Morning by Jimmy Shand and his Band Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Tin whistle

  • Nadia Nerina

    18/10/1965 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Nadia Nerina. Favourite track: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (No 30) by Benjamin Britten Book: Illustrated book on Greek mythology Luxury: Piece of sculpture

  • Rae Jenkins

    06/09/1965 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Rae Jenkins. Favourite track: All the Things You Are by André Kostelanetz Orchestra Book: The Way of a Trout with a Fly by G E M Skues Luxury: Fly-tying materials

  • Ambrose

    02/08/1965 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Bert Ambrose. Favourite track: The Moon was Yellow by Ambrose and his Orchestra Book: The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins Luxury: Tea bags

  • Annie Ross

    26/07/1965 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz singer Annie Ross. Favourite track: Good Morning, Heartache by Billie Holiday Book: The Sun is My Undoing by Marguerite Steen Luxury: False eyelashes

  • Sir Lewis Casson

    12/07/1965 Duração: 02min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and director Sir Lewis Casson. Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Luxury: Recorder and the 1912 portrait of Dame Sybil Thorndike

  • Joseph Szigeti

    31/05/1965 Duração: 11min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Joseph Szigeti. Book: Lady Muraski's The Tale of Gengi by Arthur Waley Luxury: Pictures

  • Al Read

    19/04/1965 Duração: 19min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Al Read. Favourite track: Waltzing Matilda by Frank Ifield Book: Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach you Personality Luxury: Family photo album

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