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

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1961-1965 BBC Radio 4

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 19 Ratings

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

    Hugh Lloyd

    Hugh Lloyd

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Lloyd.
    Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Book: Anthology by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: Writing materials

    • 21 min
    Mary Stocks

    Mary Stocks

    Roy Plomley's castaway is teacher and social worker Mary Stocks.
    Favourite track: In Tears of Grief (from St Matthew Passion), Final Chorus by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Collected novels by Jane Austen
    Luxury: Radio receiver

    • 23 min
    Ginette Spanier

    Ginette Spanier

    Roy Plomley's castaway is fashion house director Ginette Spanier.
    Favourite track: You're Sensational by Frank Sinatra
    Book: Notebook and pencil
    Luxury: Silver box

    • 22 min
    Al Read

    Al Read

    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

    • 19 min
    Dame Margot Fonteyn

    Dame Margot Fonteyn

    Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.
    Favourite track: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Book: Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar
    Luxury: Skin-diver's mask

    • 26 min
    George Baker

    George Baker

    Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone George Baker.
    Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
    Book: His favourite works by Charles Dickens
    Luxury: Writing materials

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
19 Ratings

19 Ratings

Disappointed&Frustrated ,

Much appreciated...

Loving listening to these historic programmes, very sadly missing the music, but I guess that's a lot to ask.🙃

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