Episodes
Roy Plomley's castaway is designer Sir Gordon Russell.
Favourite track: Water Music Suite by George Frideric Handel
Book: The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
Luxury: Claret
Published 06/03/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is Royal Shakespeare Company Director Trevor Nunn.
Favourite track: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel
Book: Yoga manual
Luxury: Kingsize cigarette
Published 05/20/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Dame Maggie Teyte.
Published 04/15/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Russell Braddon.
Favourite track: Casta Diva (from Norma) by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: History of the World
Luxury: Red ink
Published 04/08/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alfie Bass.
Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Encyclopaedia
Published 04/01/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Susan Hampshire.
Favourite track: Paris au Mois d'Aout by Charles Aznavour
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Painting, or a 16th-century patch box
Published 02/03/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright and barrister John Mortimer.
Favourite track: Voi Che Sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Luxury: Marble bath with constant hot water
Published 01/20/68
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Jacques Loussier.
Favourite track: Come Thou, the World's Redeemer (Choral Prelude) by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Men, Beasts and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Luxury: Painting of the Crucifixion by Salvador Dali
Published 11/25/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Irene Worth.
Favourite track: Five Pieces for Orchestra No.1 by Arnold Schoenberg
Book: Textbook on anthropology
Luxury: The Beatles new colour television show
Published 11/18/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and broadcaster Professor Sir Denis Brogan.
Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Book: Works by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: Writing materials
Published 10/21/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Doris Arnold.
Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar
Book: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Luxury: Mink coat
Published 09/25/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is academic and writer Lord Ritchie-Calder.
Favourite track: J'Attendrai by Jean Sablon
Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Luxury: Tape recorder
Published 06/26/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is the Dean of St Paul's, the Very Reverend Dr W R Matthews.
Favourite track: Gloria in Excelsis (from Mass in D) by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: Republic by Plato
Luxury: Beginner's guide to making rafts
Published 05/01/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is film director John Schlesinger.
Favourite track: Morgen (Opus 27 No 4) by Richard Strauss
Book: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Luxury: Insect repellent
Published 04/10/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician, artist and broadcaster Rolf Harris.
Favourite track: Matila by Yves Montand
Book: Dusty by Frank Dalby Davison
Luxury: Two tape recorders
Published 04/03/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and journalist Dick Francis.
Favourite track: I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Tony Bennett
Book: The Spirit of St Louis by Charles Lindbergh
Luxury: Mirror
Published 03/27/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is world speedway champion Barry Briggs.
Favourite track: You Oughta be in Pictures by Ray Conniff & Billy Butterfield
Book: Encyclopaedia
Luxury: Surfboard
Published 03/13/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Goolden.
Favourite track: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Marlene Dietrich
Book: The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Luxury: Cigars and a dinner jacket
Published 01/23/67
Roy Plomley's castaway is Matron of Great Ormond Street Hospital Gwendoline Kirby.
Favourite track: The Lord is My Shepherd (Brother James's Air) by The Orpington Junior Singers
Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Luxury: Field glasses
Published 12/24/66
Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Jack Brabham.
Favourite track: Our Love is Here to Stay by Nat King Cole
Book: Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering
Luxury: Not required
Published 12/19/66
Roy Plomley's castaways are rowers John Ridgway & Chay Blyth.
Favourite track: Sinfonia Antarctica by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Book: Dictionary and Anthology of poetry
Luxury: Shaving kit and a leather armchair
Published 12/05/66
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and critic Jacques Brunius.
Favourite track: West End Blues by Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven
Book: Complete works by Lewis Carroll
Luxury: Broken and unplayable pop record
Published 10/17/66
Roy Plomley's castaways are singers Nina & Frederick.
Favourite track: Qual cor, qual cor tradisti by Vincenzo Bellini
Book: I Ching and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Harp and a flute
Published 06/13/66
Roy Plomley's castaway is heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper.
Favourite track: Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Book: Do-it-yourself manual
Luxury: Training gear
Published 05/16/66