Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

BBC Radio 4

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PERSONAL JOURNALS

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

02/16/2017

Clive James

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster and writer Clive James. Favourite track: Baby Love by Diana Ross and The Supremes Book: Book about how to build a plane out of palm fronds and coconut fibre by Willy Messerschmitt Luxury: Space invaders

40 min
12/27/1980

Placido Domingo

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Placido Domingo. Favourite track: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Luxury: Video player and cassettes of his own performances

35 min
12/20/1980

Arthur Askey

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Arthur Askey. Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Guinness Book of Records Luxury: Piano

34 min
12/13/1980

Neville Marriner

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Neville Marriner. Favourite track: There Is No Rose by King's College Chapel Choir Book: Life On Earth by David Attenborough Luxury: Violin

35 min
12/06/1980

Jose Carreras

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Jose Carreras. Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini Book: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore Luxury: Velazquez, Les Hilanderas

31 min
11/22/1980

Tom Conti

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti. Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Summerhill by A S Neill Luxury: Piano

34 min
11/08/1980

Mark Elder

Roy Plomley's castaway is musical director of the English National Opera Mark Elder. Favourite track: I Used To Be Colour Blind by Fred Astaire Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Sherry

34 min
11/01/1980

Derek Tangye

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Derek Tangye. Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Astronomical telescope

35 min

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Fascinating Conversations with Icons of the Past

07/12/2018

KatyB-

Building the conversations around the premise of selecting 8 records to take to Desert Island, we listen in and learn about the lives and thoughts of many fascinating people, some now long gone. Where else can you eavesdrop on conversations with Roald Dahl, Sir Neville Marriner, Gregory Peck, Steven Sondheim and Dizzy Gillespie? The pacing is relaxed, almost soothing, and a welcome shift from our often frenetic world.
BONEYARDS 1976

09/07/2020

Sache Banker

Mixed with songs voices for your country maybe I heard later that year