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

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1966-1970 BBC Radio 4

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.2 • 9 Ratings

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

    Quentin Poole

    Quentin Poole

    Roy Plomley's castaway is head chorister Quentin Poole.
    Favourite track: Mariner Man by William Walton
    Book: Novels by Agatha Christie
    Luxury: Flute and music

    • 21 min
    Joan Hammond

    Joan Hammond

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Joan Hammond.
    Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In F by Jeanne Marie Darre
    Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
    Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste

    • 27 min
    Nyree Dawn Porter

    Nyree Dawn Porter

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Nyree Dawn Porter.
    Favourite track: Brief Lives by Roy Dotrice
    Book: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
    Luxury: Umbrella

    • 22 min
    Isidore Godfrey

    Isidore Godfrey

    Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Isidore Godfrey.
    Favourite track: Symphony in D Minor by César Franck
    Book: The scores of the symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Luxury: Piano

    • 23 min
    Val Doonican

    Val Doonican

    Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Val Doonican.
    Favourite track: Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
    Book: A Big Anthology
    Luxury: Guitar

    • 19 min
    Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

    Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

    Roy Plomley's castaway is field marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
    Favourite track: Sei Nicht Bos (from Der Obersteiger) by Carl Zeller
    Book: The History of Warfare by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
    Luxury: Piano

    • 26 min

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