Desert Island Discs

Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton.Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Scrapbook Luxury: Cashmere Shawl

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.Favourite track: Parker's Mood by Charlie Parker All Stars Book: Baha'i Prayer Book Luxury: Trumpet

Roy Plomley's castaway is chairman of British Rail Sir Peter Parker.Favourite track: Oboe Quartet in F Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The collected works by William Blake Luxury: Gold rail pass

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Reginald Goodall.Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Paradise Lost by John Milton Luxury: An English garden

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Kyung-Wha Chung.Favourite track: Cello Suite No. 5 In C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Luxury: Mixed flower seeds

Roy Plomley's castaway is cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster.Favourite track: Ein' Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Live sturgeon

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Norman Mailer.Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Luxury: Stick of the best marijuana

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom.Favourite track: The Age Of Gold by Dmitri Shostakovich Book: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Charles Causley.Favourite track: The Play Of Daniel Overture by Ensemble Hortus Musicus Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Shaffer.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 9 In E Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Claude Monet, Dawn on the Seine

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and writer Michael Palin.Favourite track: Nimrod by Edward Elgar Book: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Luxury: Bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and musician Marti Caine.Favourite track: Coming Home by Marshall Hain Book: Glory Road by Robert Heinlein Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water and bubble bath

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Sian Phillips.Favourite track: Summer by Alexander Glazunov Book: Scouting For Boys by Robert Baden-Powell Luxury: Solar-powered refrigerator full of champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is children's writer Roald Dahl.Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner Luxury: Still, grapevine cuttings and tobacco seeds

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Rex Harrison.Favourite track: A Lull At Dawn by Barney Bigard and his Orchestra Book: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Luxury: Painting equipment for oils and watercolours

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Josephine Barstow.Favourite track: Symphony No 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Michelangelo's David

Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger.Favourite track: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Supply of acid drops

Roy Plomley's castaway is poet and broadcaster Pam Ayres.Favourite track: The New St George by John & Chris Leslie Book: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Luxury: Large basket of sugared almonds

Roy Plomley's castaway is thriller writer Ted Allbeury.Favourite track: Love Is The Sweetest Thing by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly Luxury: Writing paper and pencils

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Richard Buckle.Favourite track: Piano Quintet In A Major by Franz Schubert Book: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Luxury: Paper and pencils