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

  • David Frost

    15/04/1963 Duração: 21min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost. Favourite track: Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf Book: The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer Luxury: Potato crisps

  • Ted Willis

    08/04/1963 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ted Willis. Favourite track: Symphony No 2 in D Major by Jean Sibelius Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Concertina

  • Leslie Gilbert Illingworth

    25/03/1963 Duração: 02min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is political cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. Favourite track: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Opus 68) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Instructions for making a still Luxury: Painting materials

  • Michael Bentine

    11/02/1963 Duração: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine. Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Painting materials

  • Noel Coward

    28/01/1963 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actor Noel Coward. Favourite track: The Hole in the Ground by Bernard Cribbins Book: The Human Situation by W. Macneile Dixon Luxury: Painting materials

  • Gerry Lee

    19/01/1963 Duração: 04min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is animal impersonator Gerry Lee. Favourite track: The Flower (from Lilac Time) by Franz Schubert Book: Quinneys by Horace Vachell Luxury: Theatrical skip full of his animal skins

  • Basil Boothroyd

    14/01/1963 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and broadcaster Basil Boothroyd. Favourite track: Piano Concerto no 23 in A Major (Orchestral Opening) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Current popular newspaper

  • George Mitchell

    31/12/1962 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is choirmaster George Mitchell. Favourite track: Götterdämmerung (Closing Scene) by Richard Wagner Book: The Ring Cycle (The Score) by Richard Wagner Luxury: Music manuscript paper and pencils

  • Lord George Sanger

    22/12/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is circus proprietor Lord George Sanger. Favourite track: I'll See You Again by Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth Book: His autobiography, Seventy Years a Showman Luxury: Tea

  • A G Street

    17/12/1962 Duração: 03min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and farmer A G Street. Favourite track: Hounds in Full Cry (The Hunt) by Michael Berry Book: Ladies Whose Bright Eyes by Ford Madox Ford Luxury: Painting of the south Wiltshire countryside

  • Acker Bilk

    10/12/1962 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk. Favourite track: Papa Dip by New Orleans Wanderers Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Apple seeds

  • Anna Russell

    03/12/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Anna Russell. Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Mobile from the Museum of Modern Art

  • Jack Warner

    19/11/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Jack Warner. Favourite track: The Carousel Waltz by Rodgers & Hammerstein Book: A Tale of Two Cities in English and French by Charles Dickens Luxury: Soap

  • George Shearing

    05/11/1962 Duração: 09min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz pianist George Shearing. Favourite track: Widerstehe Doch der Sunde (Cantata No 54) by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat Luxury: Metal construction set

  • Pamela Hansford-Johnson

    29/10/1962 Duração: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Pamela Hansford-Johnson. Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb

  • Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

    08/10/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Luxury: Skin food

  • Stanley Unwin

    10/09/1962 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Stanley Unwin. Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Luxury: Painting materials

  • Lionel Tertis

    13/08/1962 Duração: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is violist Lionel Tertis. Favourite track: Tambourin Chinois by Fritz Kreisler & Franz Rupp Book: Books by H Rider Haggard and books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and books by Jules Verne Luxury: Portrait of wife

  • Stephen Spender

    09/07/1962 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Stephen Spender. Favourite track: String Quartet No 15 in A Minor (Opus 132) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: History of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt Luxury: Painting materials

  • John Allegro

    25/06/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro. Favourite track: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel Book: Some novels by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Rolls-Royce engine

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