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Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975

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Bing Crosby

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Bing Crosby. Favourite track: South Rampart Street Parade by Bob Crosby and his Bobcats Book: Roget's Thesa...

20:32Dec 29, 1975

Stanley Holloway

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and musician Stanley Holloway. Favourite track: And This Is My Beloved by Doretta Morrow Book: A book on the...

22:30Oct 27, 1975

John Julius Norwich

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer John Julius Norwich. Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of t...

23:44Oct 20, 1975

C P Snow

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer C P Snow. Favourite track: Henry IV Part II (Act 3, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare Book: Russian grammar L...

24:56Aug 2, 1975

Anthony Dowell

Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Anthony Dowell. Favourite track: The Prince Of The Pagodas by Benjamin Britten Book: The Wind in the Willow...

22:41Jul 28, 1975

Helen Bradley

Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Helen Bradley. Favourite track: Trois Gymnopédies by Satie Book: A great tome on the law Luxury: A soap th...

26:03Jul 5, 1975

John Arlott

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott. Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Ster...

21:24May 19, 1975

Ben Travers

Roy Plomley's castaway is farce writer Ben Travers. Favourite track: My Love Parade by Maurice Chevalier Book: The collected works by Robert...

25:31May 10, 1975

Patricia Hayes

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Patricia Hayes. Favourite track: Nocturne No. 8 In D Flat (Opus 72) by Frédéric Chopin Book: Kristin Laura...

22:18Apr 21, 1975

Sir John Betjeman

Roy Plomley's castaway is Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. Favourite track: Ombra Mai Fù by George Frideric Handel Book: The Golden Treasury...

23:52Apr 12, 1975

Emlyn Williams

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Emlyn Williams. Favourite track: Elizabethan Serenade by Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra Book:...

25:42Feb 15, 1975

Polly James

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Polly James. Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puc...

21:22Oct 19, 1974

Richard Walker

Roy Plomley's castaway is angler Richard Walker. Favourite track: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini Book: Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipli...

22:33Jul 6, 1974

Leslie Mitchell

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Leslie Mitchell. Favourite track: Summer Night On The River by Frederick Delius Book: Biography of Leo...

24:42Jun 1, 1974

James Stewart

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart. Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury:...

24:11May 27, 1974

David Dimbleby

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster David Dimbleby. Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and Strings by Jo...

22:17Apr 29, 1974

Philip Hope-Wallace

Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Philip Hope-Wallace. Favourite track: Dies Irae and Salve Me by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Faust by Johann Wolfga...

22:20Apr 1, 1974

Brian Johnston

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Brian Johnston. Favourite track: Double Damask by Cicely Courtneidge & Ivor McLaren Book: Funny Way to...

19:57Mar 16, 1974

Eddie Waring

Roy Plomley's castaway is commentator Eddie Waring. Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Bradshaw's Railwa...

18:41Feb 25, 1974

Roy Fox

Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Roy Fox. Favourite track: Whispering by Roy Fox and his Orchestra Book: Volume of crossword puzzles Lux...

23:47Feb 16, 1974

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