Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959

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

5 minutes 23 seconds

John Paddy Carstairs

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and filmmaker John Paddy Carstairs.
Favourite track: Swan Lake (Act 2) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Piano

7 December 1959, 1:10 pm
4 minutes 55 seconds

Joan Sutherland

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Joan Sutherland.
Favourite track: Mira, O Norma by Vincenzo Bellini Book: Memoirs of Jenny Lind by Otto Goldschmidt Luxury: Bed

23 November 1959, 1:10 pm
8 minutes 35 seconds

Benny Hill

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Benny Hill.
Favourite track: Le Gamin de Paris by Yves Montand Book: Collection of language courses Luxury: Film camera

16 November 1959, 1:10 pm
7 minutes 36 seconds

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs is film director Alfred Hitchcock.
Favourite track: Siegfried's Horn Call by Richard Wagner Book: Household Management by Mrs Beeton Luxury: Continental railway timetable
This is the only extract the BBC has of this episode of Desert Island Discs.

19 October 1959, 1:10 pm
17 minutes 6 seconds

Dave Brubeck

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz musician Dave Brubeck.
Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Piano

12 October 1959, 1:10 pm
6 minutes 36 seconds

Sir Leonard Hutton

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Sir Leonard Hutton.
Book: History of cricket Luxury: Golf clubs

7 September 1959, 6:47 am
2 minutes 5 seconds

John Snagge

Roy Plomley's castaway is radio presenter John Snagge.
Book: The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi Luxury: Painting by Rembrandt

31 August 1959, 12:10 pm
15 minutes 18 seconds

Lotte Lehmann

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Lotte Lehmann.
Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Paintbox

22 June 1959, 12:10 pm
2 minutes 26 seconds

Judy Grinham

Roy Plomley's castaway is world champion swimmer Judy Grinham.
Favourite track: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye by Ella Fitzgerald Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Typewriter and paper

9 March 1959, 1:10 pm
6 minutes 17 seconds

John Osborne

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright John Osborne.
Luxury: Perfume

19 January 1959, 1:10 pm
14 minutes

Elena Gerhardt

Roy Plomley's castaway is mezzo-soprano Elena Gerhardt.
Book: A philosophical work by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Tapestry-making kit

10 November 1958, 1:10 pm
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