Episodes
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
Published 02/16/17
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
Published 12/27/80
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
Published 12/20/80
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
Published 12/13/80
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
Published 12/06/80
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.
Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: Summerhill by A S Neill
Luxury: Piano
Published 11/22/80
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
Published 11/08/80
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
Published 11/01/80
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
Published 10/25/80
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
Published 10/18/80
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
Published 10/11/80
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
Published 10/04/80
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
Published 09/27/80
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
Published 09/20/80
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
Published 09/06/80
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
Published 08/30/80
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
Published 08/23/80
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
Published 08/16/80
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
Published 08/09/80
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
Published 08/02/80
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Scott Blackhall.
Favourite track: Our Love Is Here To Stay by George Gershwin
Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse
Luxury: Perkins Brailler and paper
Published 07/26/80
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Tom Lehrer.
Favourite track: Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes by Richard Strauss
Book: The Oxford English Dictionary
Luxury: Piano
Published 07/12/80
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer V S Naipaul.
Favourite track: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Teach yourself mathematics
Luxury: The Enlightened Buddha
Published 07/05/80
Roy Plomley's castaway is dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.
Favourite track: Skye Boat Song by Adrian Brett
Book: Talking To Animals by Barbara Woodhouse
Luxury: Mother's ormolu clock
Published 06/28/80