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

  • Giovanni Martinelli

    18/06/1962 Duração: 18min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Giovanni Martinelli. Favourite track: Tu, ca nun Chaigne by Enrico Caruso Book: Inferno by Dante Alighieri Luxury: Bronze statuette of David by Verrocchio

  • Eric Hosking

    04/06/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is ornithologist Eric Hosking. Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Field guide to the island's birds Luxury: Camera and film

  • Sidney Nolan

    21/05/1962 Duração: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan. Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten Book: Chinese language course Luxury: Snorkel mask

  • Robert Morley

    23/04/1962 Duração: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Robert Morley. Book: The rules of patience Luxury: Two packs of cards with photographs of family on the backs

  • Raymond Glendenning

    26/03/1962 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is sports commentator Raymond Glendenning. Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach/Stokowski Book: Pears Cyclopaedia Luxury: Watercolour paints

  • Colonel A D Wintle

    12/03/1962 Duração: 16min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soldier and writer Colonel A D Wintle. Favourite track: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Large blank book Luxury: Dog whip

  • Sir John Gielgud

    29/01/1962 Duração: 10min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud. Favourite track: Double Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Luxury: Watercolour of Versailles by Raoul Dufy

  • Rupert Davies

    13/11/1961 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rupert Davies. Favourite track: Elegie by Jules Massenet Book: Candide by Voltaire Luxury: Lump of jade

  • Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall

    18/09/1961 Duração: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor Sir Stephen King-Hall. Favourite track: Jesu Maria (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar Book: Parliamentary Practice by Thomas Erskine-May Luxury: Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

  • Julian Bream

    05/06/1961 Duração: 17min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Julian Bream. Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert Book: Collection of 16th and 17th century English poetry Luxury: Guitar, manuscript paper and pens

  • Kingsley Amis

    29/05/1961 Duração: 03min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Kingsley Amis. Favourite track: Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble by Bud Freeman and his Famous Chicagoans Book: Collected poetry by Robert Graves Luxury: American whiskey

  • Pietro Annigoni

    15/05/1961 Duração: 06min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Pietro Annigoni. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: International timetable of ships and trains Luxury: Drawing materials and a pillow

  • Ralph Reader

    08/05/1961 Duração: 08min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and director Ralph Reader. Favourite track: These are the Times by The Gang Show Book: Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton Luxury: Typewriter and paper

  • James Mason

    06/03/1961 Duração: 03min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Mason. Favourite track: My Man by Billie Holiday Book: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Luxury: Bagpipes

  • Ursula Bloom

    14/11/1960 Duração: 04min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist Ursula Bloom. Favourite track: Message to the Empire (25 December 1939) by HM King George VI Book: Book of Common Prayer Luxury: Writing materials

  • Danny Blanchflower

    15/08/1960 Duração: 07min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is footballer Danny Blanchflower. Favourite track: The Breeze and I by Caterina Valente Book: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

  • Antal Dorati

    25/07/1960 Duração: 14min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati. Favourite track: O, Namenlose Freude (from Fidelio) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Personally-compiled anthology Luxury: Painting of a sleeping girl by Dominico Feti

  • Claudio Arrau

    04/07/1960 Duração: 15min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Claudio Arrau. Favourite track: Symphony No 9 in C Major by Franz Schubert Book: Works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Early Chinese statuette

  • Sir Alec Guinness

    27/06/1960 Duração: 24min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness. Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton Luxury: Apricot brandy

  • Julian Slade

    20/06/1960 Duração: 05min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Julian Slade. Favourite track: Art Thou Troubled? by George Frideric Handel Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Violin

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