Desert Island Discs

Roy Plomley's castaway is snooker player Steve Davis.Favourite track: I Need You Now by George Duke Book: The Throwback and Wilt by Tom Sharpe Luxury: Snooker table

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rachel Billington.Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Mary Ellis.Favourite track: Gloria by Ariel Ramirez Book: Encyclopaedia Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gyorgy Ligeti.Favourite track: String Quintet In C by Franz Schubert Book: Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Luxury: Hieronymus Bosch, Garden Of Earthly Delights

Roy Plomley's castaway is musician Alan Price.Favourite track: I Ain't Got Nobody by Louis Prima Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Helen Mirren.Favourite track: Pass The Dutchie by Musical Youth Book: The Bhagavad-Gita Luxury: Silk underwear

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer P D James.Favourite track: St Matthew Passion (First Chorus) by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Claret

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosamond Lehmann.Favourite track: Nunc Dimittis by Burgon Book: Letters by Marquise de Sevigne Luxury: Writing Materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Thomas Allen.Favourite track: Concerto in C For Violin, Cello, Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Lord Tonypandy, George Thomas, now Chairman of the National Children's Homes, was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983. He was invited to choose the eight records he would take to the mythical island, and he also talked to Roy Plomley about his childhood in Wales and about his parliamentary career which he began when he won the Cardiff Central seat in 1945.Book: The Methodist hymn book Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Mike Harding.Favourite track: 2000-Year-Old Man by Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Ordnance Survey maps and a set of books about the Fells

Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Geoffrey Grigson.Favourite track: She Never Told Her Love by Franz Joseph Haydn Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Pate de foie gras

Roy Plomley's castaways are members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.Book: Books by Hector Berlioz, Charles Dickens, Hugh Johnson and a cookery book Luxury: Razor and shaving soap, a video player with a tape of Laurel & Hardy, wine and a violin

Roy Plomley's castaway is artistic director of Opera North David Lloyd Jones.Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In C by Franz Schubert Book: Journal by Edmond Goncourt

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Wilbur Smith.Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Brass bedstead and a feather mattress

Roy Plomley's castaway is organist Carlo Curley.Favourite track: Wie Lieblich Sind Deine Wohnungen by Johannes Brahms Book: Cookery book by Julia Childs Luxury: Pipe organ

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor James Loughran.Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Comprehensive world airways timetable Luxury: Drawing and painting equipment

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Claire Bloom.Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Coffee and espresso machine

Roy Plomley's castaways are the Duke & Duchess Of Devonshire.Favourite track: You're The Top by Ethel Merman Book: Books by Beatrix Potter and Chambers' Biographical Dictionary Luxury: New potatoes and aftershave

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Carl Davis.Favourite track: Hm, hm, hm! (from The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Luxury: Shampoo

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Sinden.Favourite track: Symphony No. 6 In F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher Luxury: His favourite picture in the Walker Art Gallery

Roy Plomley's castaway is mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker.Favourite track: Sonata In A Minor by Domenico Scarlatti Book: Persuasion by Jane Austen Luxury: Pencils and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is record producer George Martin.Favourite track: St Matthew Passion (Opening) by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Manual on practical engineering Luxury: Clavichord

Roy Plomley's castaway is marine biologist Lyall Watson.Favourite track: The Call Of A Burchell's Coucal Book: Pears Cyclopaedia Luxury: Film projector and 20 Western films

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Pamela Stephenson.Favourite track: Legong Kraton by Gong Kebyar Book: Buddhist scripture by Dama Pada Luxury: Television set with satellite link-up

Roy Plomley's castaway is oceanographer Captain Jacques Cousteau.Favourite track: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue In D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Essays by Michel de Montaigne Luxury: Stone from stomach of a fossilised dinosaur

Roy Plomley's castaway is barrister John Mortimer QC.Favourite track: Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch Luxury: Bath

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Eric Newby.Favourite track: The Flies Crawled Up The Window by Jack Hulbert Book: Dictionary of National Biography Luxury: Whisky

Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Sir Anton Dolin.Favourite track: La Traviata Act 3 Prelude by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Friends and Memories by Sir Anton Dolin Luxury: Electric razor

Roy Plomley's castaway is cookery expert Delia Smith.Favourite track: Lief by Rhos Male Choir Book: Autobiography by Saint Therese of Lisieux Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is founder of the BBC's Natural History Unit Desmond Hawkins.Favourite track: Octet In F Major by Franz Schubert Book: Field guide to the birds of the island Luxury: Binoculars

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress and singer Marti Webb.Favourite track: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler Of Bexhill-0n-Sea by The Goons Book: Illustrated dictionary Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Julian Symons.Favourite track: The Quarry by W. H. Auden Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens Luxury: Couch

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Lucia Popp.Favourite track: Teddy Bears' Picnic by Henry Hall and BBC Dance Orchestra Book: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Luxury: Teddy bear

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Jenny Agutter.Favourite track: Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch Luxury: Oriental rug

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Dunnett.Favourite track: Symphony No. 7 In A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Guitar

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and critic Brian Aldiss.Favourite track: Sonata In A by Franz Schubert Book: Rasselas by Dr Samuel Johnson Luxury: Time machine

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Julia McKenzie.Favourite track: Skylark by Johnny Mandel and his Orchestra Book: Act One by Moss Hart Luxury: Painting materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Richard Armstrong.Favourite track: Tristan's Monologue by Richard Wagner Book: Piano Sonatas by Beethoven Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Sir William Walton.Favourite track: Violin Concerto by William Walton Book: The Education of a Gardener by Russel Page Luxury: Funicular for hills

Roy Plomley's castaway is founder of the Mermaid Bernard Miles.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Odyssey (Translation by W H D Rouse) by Homer Luxury: Box of notebooks, pencils and sharpeners

Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz trombonist George Chisholm.Favourite track: I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan by Jack Teagarden Book: Novels by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Engraved glass and supply of bitter lemon

Roy Plomley's castaway is prima donna Dame Eva Turner.Favourite track: Umbra Di Nube by Claudia Muzio Book: Inferno by Dante Alighieri Luxury: Castanets

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright John Osborne.Favourite track: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams Book: Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor Luxury: Piano and an instruction book

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Petula Clark.Favourite track: Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss Book: Short Stories by John Steinbeck Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is Lord Mayor of London Sir Christopher Leaver.Favourite track: Triple Concerto in C Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Luxury: Wine cellar

Roy Plomley's castaway is former US ambassador Professor J K Galbraith.Favourite track: Oh What A Beautiful Morning by Alfred Drake Book: Personally compiled anthology Luxury: Typewriter and paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is Beatle Paul McCartneyPresented by Roy Plomley.Favourite track: Beautiful Boy by John Lennon Book: Linda's pictures by Linda McCartney Luxury: Guitar

Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Frankie Howerd.Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Luxury: Cross given to him by his mother

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Angela Rippon.Favourite track: Jupiter by Gustav Holst Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Luxury: Water colours, brushes and paper