Desert Island Discs: Archive 1961-1965

By BBC Radio 4

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

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The podcast currently has 44 episodes available.

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1961-1965 episodes:

January 14, 1963 Basil Boothroyd
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and broadcaster Basil Boothroyd.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto no 23 in A Major (Orchestral Opening) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Current popular newspaper
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8min
October 29, 1962 Pamela Hansford-Johnson
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Pamela Hansford-Johnson.
Favourite track: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Immaculate Lamb
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7min
October 01, 1962 Antony Hopkins
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer, conductor and pianist Antony Hopkins.
Favourite track: Quintet in C Major (Opus 163) by Franz Schubert
Book: Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
Luxury: Piano
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24min
September 10, 1962 Stanley Unwin
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Stanley Unwin.
Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Luxury: Painting materials
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6min
June 25, 1962 John Allegro
Roy Plomley's castaway is Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Allegro.
Favourite track: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings (from Messiah) by George Frideric Handel
Book: Some novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Rolls-Royce engine
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8min
May 21, 1962 Sidney Nolan
Roy Plomley's castaway is artist Sidney Nolan.
Favourite track: Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten
Book: Chinese language course
Luxury: Snorkel mask
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11min
April 23, 1962 Robert Morley
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Robert Morley.
Book: The rules of patience
Luxury: Two packs of cards with photographs of family on the backs
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11min
January 29, 1962 Sir John Gielgud
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud.
Favourite track: Double Violin Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Luxury: Watercolour of Versailles by Raoul Dufy
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11min
January 22, 1962 Ken Sykora
Roy Plomley's castaway is guitarist Ken Sykora.
Favourite track: Nuages by Django Reinhardt
Book: Science for the Citizen
Luxury: Guitar
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25min
December 25, 1961 Gracie Fields
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Gracie Fields.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Luxury: Reproduction of Renoir's The Picnic
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23min

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