Episodes
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Lloyd.
Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Anthology by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
Published 07/07/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is teacher and social worker Mary Stocks.
Favourite track: In Tears of Grief (from St Matthew Passion), Final Chorus by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Collected novels by Jane Austen
Luxury: Radio receiver
Published 07/05/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is fashion house director Ginette Spanier.
Favourite track: You're Sensational by Frank Sinatra
Book: Notebook and pencil
Luxury: Silver box
Published 06/21/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Al Read.
Favourite track: Waltzing Matilda by Frank Ifield
Book: Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach you Personality
Luxury: Family photo album
Published 04/19/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Favourite track: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar
Luxury: Skin-diver's mask
Published 04/12/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone George Baker.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: His favourite works by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Writing materials
Published 04/05/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Arthur Fiedler.
Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Luxury: Binoculars
Published 03/01/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is bass Owen Brannigan.
Favourite track: Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten
Book: The collected works by G.K. Chesterton
Luxury: Trombone
Published 02/08/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Marlene Dietrich.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: The Telegram by Konstantin Paustovsky and A Story of Life by Konstantin Paustovsky
Luxury: Mementoes box
Published 01/04/65
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Jack de Manio.
Favourite track: The Faithful Hussar by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Scented soap
Published 12/26/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Book: The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon
Luxury: Her portrait by Augustus John
Published 12/14/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Frank Phillips.
Favourite track: Etude No 13 in A Flat Major (Opus 25 No 1) by Frédéric Chopin
Book: A Dictionary of Origins by Eric Partridge
Luxury: Armchair
Published 11/23/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine Reverend W Awdry.
Favourite track: Baal, We Cry to Thee by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Luxury: Writing materials
Published 10/19/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dirk Bogarde.
Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Luxury: Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
Published 09/28/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Kenneth Connor.
Favourite track: Little Bit This, Little Bit That by Jimmy Durante
Book: Margin Released by J B Priestley
Luxury: Guitar
Published 06/22/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Paul Tortelier.
Favourite track: Er, der Herrlichste von Allen from Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann
Book: La Petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach by Esther Meynell
Luxury: Bicycle and cider
Published 06/15/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Wattis.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: The Life of Disraeli by André Maurois
Luxury: Bed
Published 06/01/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Jacobs.
Favourite track: God Be in My Head by Temple Church Choir
Book: A Hundred-and-One Things a Girl Can Do
Luxury: Piano and family photographs
Published 05/25/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Dame Edith Evans.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Luxury: Photographs
Published 05/18/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jim Clark.
Favourite track: The Party's Over by Peggy Lee
Book: At the Wheel by Jim Clark
Luxury: Radio receiver
Published 05/04/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is industrialist Sir Miles Thomas.
Favourite track: Noel Coward Fantasy by Melachrino Orchestra
Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill
Luxury: Toothpaste
Published 04/06/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Wilfrid Brambell.
Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Scotch whisky and lager
Published 03/30/64
Roy Plomley's castaway is Coco the Clown - Nicolai Poliakoff.
Favourite track: Black Eyes by Balalaika Orchestra
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Writing materials
Published 12/23/63