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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.


Desert Island Discs

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Dennis Potter.

Favourite track: Sons Of The Brave by Gus Band
Book: Collected essays by William Hazlitt
Luxury: Edward Hopper's painting, Gas

Dennis Potter

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir Alec Guinness.

Favourite track: Sonata No. 32 in C Minor (Opus 111) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Luxury: Leather wallet containing photos of family & dog

Sir Alec Guinness

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Edwards.

Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Dorothy Edwards

Roy Plomley's castaway is film director Franco Zeffirelli.

Favourite track: Les Tringles Des Sistres by Georges Bizet
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Perfume

Franco Zeffirelli

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Omar Sharif.

Favourite track: All The Way by Frank Sinatra
Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Luxury: Several decks of cards

Omar Sharif

Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of Punch Alan Coren.

Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Alan Coren

Roy Plomley's castaways are theatre historians Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson.

Favourite track: The Ride Of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Book: Photo albums and A set of Who's Who in the Theatre
Luxury: Couch and coconut oil and an ultra-sensitive receiver to hear voices from the past

Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Spike Milligan.

Favourite track: Yesterday by The Beatles
Book: Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Luxury: Barclaycard

Spike Milligan

Roy Plomley's castaways are the musicians the Amadeus String Quartet.

Book: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust and Instrument-making and Divine Comedy (in Italian with dictionary) by Dante Alighieri and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Projector, viola, radio, paper and pencils

Amadeus String Quartet

Roy Plomley's castaway is Leader of the Opposition the Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Photo album of her children

Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Professor J H Plumb.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Correspondence by Voltaire
Luxury: Dozen cases of Chateau Latour '61

Professor J H Plumb

Professor J H Plumb

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