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BBC Radio 4


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 writer Richard Adams.

Favourite track: Non So Piu by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of The Annunciation

Richard Adams

Roy Plomley's castaway is biologist Professor Alan Gemmell.

Favourite track: The Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Book on elementary calculus
Luxury: Paper and pencils

Professor Alan Gemmell

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Peter Ustinov.

Favourite track: In Diesen Heil'Gen Hallen by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Blank paper and pencils
Luxury: Bath with solar-heated water

Peter Ustinov

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Winston Graham.

Favourite track: The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Book: Book of Quotations by William Gurney Benham
Luxury: Exercise books and ballpoint pens

Winston Graham

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Grace Bumbry.

Favourite track: Impromptu In G Flat Major by Franz Schubert
Book: Letters by Guiseppe Verdi
Luxury: Perfume

Grace Bumbry

Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist Phil Drabble.

Favourite track: Recording Of The Song Of The Blackbird
Book: Shorthand instruction book with paper and pens
Luxury: Set of bird-ringing tools, including rings

Phil Drabble

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

Winston Graham

Winston Graham

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