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Patrick Lichfield

Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Patrick Lichfield.Favourite track: As Time Goes By by Dooley Wilson Book: Book with blank cork pages Luxury: Astronomical telescope

Oct 31, 198133 min

Joseph Cotten

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Joseph Cotten.Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms Book: Gardening manual Luxury: Boat building book

Oct 30, 198132 min

Elspeth Huxley

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Elspeth Huxley.Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg Book: Novels by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Camera and film

Oct 17, 198127 min

Montserrat Caballe

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Montserrat Caballe.Luxury: Record box

Oct 10, 198148 min

Beaux Arts Trio

Roy Plomley's castaways are the musical collective Beaux Arts Trio.Book: Books about gardening, painting and boat handling Luxury: Violin & strings and a piano

Oct 3, 198137 min

James Mason

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Mason.Favourite track: My Man by Billie Holiday Book: Ada by Vladimir Nabokov Luxury: Guitar

Sep 26, 198133 min

Malcolm Muggeridge

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer, journalist and broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge.Favourite track: Exultate Jubilate by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Writings by Dr Samuel Johnson Luxury: Beehive

Sep 19, 198143 min

Jessye Norman

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Jessye Norman.Favourite track: Love Duet by Richard Wagner Book: Diaries by Virginia Woolf Luxury: Perrier Water

Sep 12, 198133 min

Alan Jones

Roy Plomley's castaway is racing driver Alan Jones.Favourite track: Reminiscing by Little River Band Book: Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith Luxury: Australian lager

Sep 5, 198133 min

Frank Oz

Roy Plomley's castaway is puppeteer Frank Oz.Favourite track: Don't Get Around Much Anymore by Mose Allison Book: The complete works by Emily Dickinson Luxury: Clean sheets

Aug 29, 198136 min

Paul Eddington

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Paul Eddington.Favourite track: St Matthew Passion No 45-46 by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Experiences of an Irish RM by Martin Ross Luxury: Ivon Hitchens, Boathouse at Dawn

Aug 22, 198136 min

Sebastian Coe

Roy Plomley's castaway is world champion athlete Sebastian Coe.Favourite track: A Foggy Day by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armsrtong Book: The Penguin Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker Luxury: Bed

Aug 15, 198133 min

Terry Hands

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Terry Hands.Favourite track: String Quartet in C by Franz Joseph Haydn Book: Dictionary Luxury: Cello

Aug 8, 198129 min

Julian Lloyd Webber

Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.Favourite track: Cello Concerto in E Minor by Edward Elgar Book: History of Orient Football Club Luxury: Cello

Aug 1, 198134 min

Roger Moore

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roger Moore.Favourite track: New York, New York by Frank Sinatra Book: Nobel House by James Clavell Luxury: Video player and films of family

Jul 25, 198135 min

Carl Sagan

Roy Plomley's castaway is astronomer Carl Sagan.Favourite track: Partita No. 3 in E by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Boy Scout hand book Luxury: Reflecting telescope

Jul 18, 198138 min

Gillian Lynne

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Gillian Lynne.Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett Book: French language course Luxury: Eyelash curlers

Jul 11, 198131 min

Gloria Swanson

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Gloria Swanson.Favourite track: Un Bel Di Vedremo by Giacomo Puccini Book: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Luxury: Telephone

Jul 4, 198134 min

Morris West

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Morris West.Favourite track: Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Meditations Upon Our Human Condition by John Donne Luxury: Pencils and paper

Jun 27, 198133 min

Giuseppe Di Stefano

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano.Favourite track: Qui La Voce Sua Soave by Vincenzo Bellini Book: Maria by Arianna Stassinopoulos Luxury: Roulette table

Jun 20, 198135 min

Richard Leakey

Roy Plomley's castaway is anthropologist Richard Leakey.Favourite track: Solo Whale by Frank Watlington Book: Touch The Earth by T C McLuhan Luxury: Pillow

Jun 13, 198135 min

Rt Hon William Whitelaw

Roy Plomley's castaway is Home Secretary The Rt Hon William Whitelaw.Favourite track: White Christmas by Bing Crosby Book: The World That Fred Made by Bernard Darwin Luxury: Bath with a hot water system

Jun 6, 198135 min

Eric Shilling

Roy Plomley's castaway is bass singer Eric Shilling.Favourite track: Deh Vieni Non Tardar by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Collin's Albatross Book of Verse by Louis Untermeyer Luxury: Astronomical telescope

May 30, 198133 min

Edmund Rubbra

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Edmund Rubbra.Favourite track: Symphony No .9 In C by Franz Schubert Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne Luxury: Music manuscript paper

May 23, 198134 min

Sir John Gielgud

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Sir John Gielgud.Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust

May 16, 198140 min

Buddy Rich

Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader and drummer Buddy Rich.Favourite track: The Girl On The Rock by Ralph Brewster Singers Book: The Story of O by Pauline Reage Luxury: Ferrari

May 9, 198132 min

Sir Frederick Ashton

Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Cards

May 2, 198134 min

Stewart Granger

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Stewart Granger.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Collected works by Ernest Hemingway Luxury: Gold statuette of Sir Winston Churchill

Apr 25, 198144 min

Princess Grace of Monaco

Roy Plomley's castaway is Princess Grace Of Monaco.Favourite track: Berceuse In D Flat by Frédéric Chopin Book: Plays by George Kelly Luxury: Pillow

Apr 18, 198130 min

Sir Fitzroy MacLean

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Sir Fitzroy MacLean.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Writing materials

Apr 11, 198135 min

Patricia Ruanne

Roy Plomley's castaway is ballerina Patricia Ruanne.Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Ballet Suite by Sergei Prokofiev Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Sunglasses

Mar 28, 198135 min

Russell Harty

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Russell Harty.Favourite track: In The Bleak Midwinter by King's College Chapel Choir Book: A History of Craven by E T Whittaker Luxury: Flagpole and Union Jack

Mar 21, 198134 min

Peter Nichols

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Nichols.Favourite track: He Trusted In God by George Frideric Handel Book: Collected essays by George Orwell Luxury: Vibraphone

Mar 14, 198134 min

Daniel Massey

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Daniel Massey.Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Ego by James Agate Luxury: Wine

Mar 7, 198134 min

Carla Lane

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and comedian Carla Lane.Favourite track: Violin Concerto in D by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Dictionary of quotations Luxury: French Shampoo

Feb 28, 198141 min

Frederic Raphael

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Frederic Raphael.Favourite track: Cello Concerto in B Minor by Antonin Dvořák Book: Bilingual edition of poetry by Giorgos Seferis Luxury: Painting Materials

Feb 21, 198134 min

David Broome

Roy Plomley's castaway is show jumper David Broome.Favourite track: Hymns and Arias by Max Boyce Book: Collected Speeches by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Wine

Feb 14, 198131 min

Mary O'Hara

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Mary O'Hara.Favourite track: Double Concerto in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Tennis practice equipment

Feb 7, 198132 min

Jeffrey Archer

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and former MP Jeffrey Archer.Favourite track: Help! by The Beatles Book: Reunion by Fred Uhlman Luxury: Plasticine model of Roy Plomley and a pin

Jan 31, 198137 min

Joan Plowright

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joan Plowright.Favourite track: Symphony No. 6 In F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Three novels by Aldous Huxley Luxury: Piano

Jan 24, 198136 min

HRH Princess Margaret

Roy Plomley's castaway is HRH Princess Margaret.Favourite track: Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Piano

Jan 17, 198133 min

John Fowles

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer John Fowles.Book: Dictionary of National Biography Luxury: Field glasses

Jan 10, 198134 min

Robin Cousins

Roy Plomley's castaway is ice-skating champion Robin Cousins.Favourite track: Carmen Ballet by Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra Book: Shogun by James Clavell Luxury: Marzipan

Jan 3, 198132 min

Placido Domingo

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

Dec 27, 198034 min

Arthur Askey

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

Dec 20, 198033 min

Neville Marriner

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

Dec 13, 198034 min

Jose Carreras

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

Dec 6, 198030 min

Alan Minter

Roy Plomley's castaway is boxer Alan Minter.Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra Book: Survival manual Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio

Nov 29, 198030 min

Tom Conti

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Tom Conti.Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Summerhill by A S Neill Luxury: Piano

Nov 22, 198033 min

Jacquetta Hawkes

Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Wine

Nov 15, 198029 min