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

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980 BBC Radio 4

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.4 • 50 Ratings

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

    Clive James

    Clive James

    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

    • 39 min
    Placido Domingo

    Placido Domingo

    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

    • 34 min
    Arthur Askey

    Arthur Askey

    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

    • 33 min
    Neville Marriner

    Neville Marriner

    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

    • 34 min
    Jose Carreras

    Jose Carreras

    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

    • 30 min
    Tom Conti

    Tom Conti

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

    • 33 min

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Fascinating Conversations with Icons of the Past

Building the conversations around the premise of selecting 8 records to take to Desert Island, we listen in and learn about the lives and thoughts of many fascinating people, some now long gone. Where else can you eavesdrop on conversations with Roald Dahl, Sir Neville Marriner, Gregory Peck, Steven Sondheim and Dizzy Gillespie? The pacing is relaxed, almost soothing, and a welcome shift from our often frenetic world.

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BONEYARDS 1976

Mixed with songs voices for your country maybe I heard later that year

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