Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1960-1969

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedy cartoonist Rowland Emett.Favourite track: Quartet No 8 in E Minor (Opus 59 No 2) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Luxury: Daugh...

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Roy Plomley's castaway is geographer Professor L Dudley Stamp.Favourite track: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel Book: Everyman's Encyclopaedia Luxury: Wine

7 Okt 20253min

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost.Favourite track: Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf Book: The collected works by Geoffrey Chaucer Luxury: Potato crisps

7 Okt 202521min

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Ted Willis.Favourite track: Symphony No 2 in D Major by Jean Sibelius Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Concertina

7 Okt 20257min

Roy Plomley's castaway is political cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth.Favourite track: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Opus 68) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Instructions for making a still Luxury: Pain...

7 Okt 20252min

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Michael Bentine.Favourite track: Temas en Farruca by Carlos Mentoya Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Painting materials

7 Okt 20259min

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and actor Noel Coward.Favourite track: The Hole in the Ground by Bernard Cribbins Book: The Human Situation by W. Macneile Dixon Luxury: Painting materials

7 Okt 20258min

Roy Plomley's castaway is animal impersonator Gerry Lee.Favourite track: The Flower (from Lilac Time) by Franz Schubert Book: Quinneys by Horace Vachell Luxury: Theatrical skip full of his animal skin...

7 Okt 20254min