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Martin Gilbert

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

Jan 9, 198235 min

Trevor Brooking

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

Jan 2, 198232 min

Earl of Harewood

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

Dec 26, 198135 min

Helene Hanff

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

Dec 19, 198132 min

Jack Higgins

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

Dec 12, 198141 min

Alan Howard

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

Dec 5, 198129 min

Sir Douglas Bader

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

Dec 4, 198131 min

Diana Dors

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

Nov 27, 198134 min

James Clavell

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

Nov 14, 198133 min

Professor Glyn Daniel

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

Nov 7, 198135 min

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