Desert Island Discs

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

Roy Plomley's castaway is historian Martin Gilbert.Favourite track: M'Appari by Beniamino Gigli Book: The document volumes of the Churchill biography by Martin Gilbert Luxury: Drawings of his two children

Roy Plomley's castaway is footballer Trevor Brooking.Favourite track: What Kind Of Fool by Barbra Steisand & Barry Gibb Book: Crossword puzzles and pencils Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is the managing director of the ENO George Lascelles.Favourite track: Piano Sonata In A by Franz Schubert Book: Anthology of Poetry Luxury: Typewriter

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Helene Hanff.Favourite track: In Tears Of Grief by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Memoirs by Louis De Rouvroy Luxury: Scrabble

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Jack Higgins.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G Minor by Sergei Rachmaninov Book: The Four Quartets by T S Eliot Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alan Howard.Favourite track: Symphony No. 15 In D by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Piano manual Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader.Favourite track: I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers Book: Complete works by Lord Tennyson Luxury: Sand iron and golf balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Diana Dors.Book: Autobiography by Diana Dors Luxury: Chocolates

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist James Clavell.Favourite track: The Impossible Dream by Roberta Flack Book: The Koran

Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Professor Glyn Daniel.Favourite track: Partita No. 1 in B Flat by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Luxury: Wine