Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

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Sinopse

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

Episódios

  • Clive James

    16/02/2017 Duração: 39min

    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

  • Placido Domingo

    27/12/1980 Duração: 34min

    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

  • Arthur Askey

    20/12/1980 Duração: 33min

    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

  • Neville Marriner

    13/12/1980 Duração: 34min

    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

  • Jose Carreras

    06/12/1980 Duração: 30min

    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

  • Tom Conti

    22/11/1980 Duração: 33min

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

  • Mark Elder

    08/11/1980 Duração: 34min

    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

  • Derek Tangye

    01/11/1980 Duração: 34min

    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

  • Catherine Gaskin

    25/10/1980 Duração: 40min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Catherine Gaskin. Favourite track: String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Story of Civilization by William Durant Luxury: Piano

  • Brian Glover

    18/10/1980 Duração: 30min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Brian Glover. Favourite track: Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan Book: Card Games by John Scarne Luxury: MGTD 2952 car

  • Sir John Tooley

    11/10/1980 Duração: 34min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is the General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Tooley Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro (Act 2 Finale) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Sugared apricots

  • Ronald Lockley

    04/10/1980 Duração: 35min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is naturalist and writer Ronald Lockley. Favourite track: Prelude A L'Apres Midi D'Un Faune by Claude Debussy Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White Luxury: Telescope

  • Andrea Newman

    27/09/1980 Duração: 37min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and TV writer Andrea Newman. Favourite track: Im Abendrot by Richard Strauss Book: The Weather in the Streets by Rosamund Lehmann Luxury: Champagne

  • Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

    20/09/1980 Duração: 34min

    Roy Plomley's castaways are producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne and Herzog by Saul Bellow Luxury: Brandy and a blank log book

  • Earl Of Snowdon

    06/09/1980 Duração: 35min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, The Earl Of Snowdon. Favourite track: Swan Lake (Finale) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher Luxury: Painting Materials

  • Renata Scotto

    30/08/1980 Duração: 33min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Renata Scotto. Favourite track: Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata by Giacomo Puccini Book: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Luxury: Silver shadow Rolls Royce

  • Tristan Jones

    23/08/1980 Duração: 35min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is sailor and writer Tristan Jones. Favourite track: 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Modern wooden yacht construction Luxury: 12 foot by 8 foot Union Jack

  • Stephen Sondheim

    16/08/1980 Duração: 32min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Stephen Sondheim. Favourite track: Porgy and Bess by Lawrence Winters and Others Book: Collected works by E B White Luxury: Piano

  • William Trevor

    09/08/1980 Duração: 32min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is writer William Trevor. Favourite track: Clarinet Quintet In B Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler Luxury: Grapevines

  • Gregory Peck

    02/08/1980 Duração: 43min

    Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Gregory Peck. Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg Luxury: Cases of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild

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