Desert Island Discs

Roy Plomley's castaway is Editor of the Guinness Book of Records Norris McWhirter.Favourite track: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major by Edward Elgar Book: The National Dictionary of Biography Luxury: Roll of cloth

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Stephens.Favourite track: Speak The Speech, I Pray You (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare Book: The collected works by Raymond Chandler Luxury: Tobacco plant

Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Benjamin Luxon.Favourite track: Spem In Alium by Tallis Book: Collected stories by Idris Shah Luxury: A piano and music

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Elia Kazan.Favourite track: String Quartet in A Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Iliad by Homer Luxury: 20 tons of pine needles

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and scriptwriter Allan Prior.Favourite track: Never Been Kissed In The Same Place Twice by Maddy Prior Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Luxury: Looking glass

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Powell.Favourite track: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor by Gustav Mahler Book: Modern English Usage by Henry W Fowler Luxury: Typewriter

Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Norman Parkinson.Favourite track: La Vie En Rose by Grace Jones Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly Luxury: Life-size bronze statue of an Ama-Indian woman

Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Sir Robert Helpmann.Favourite track: Bailero by Victoria De Los Angeles Book: Volume on boat building for beginners Luxury: Toothbrush and toothpaste

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dinsdale Landen.Favourite track: Sanctus by Gabriel Fauré Book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Luxury: Champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is rugby player Barry John.Favourite track: Myfanwy by Treorchy Male Voice Choir Book: Complete Penguin Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Luxury: Collection of assorted balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 27 In B Flat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Blank book and pens Luxury: Well-programmed robot

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Joan Fontaine.Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg Book: Single-volume encyclopaedia Luxury: The Taj Mahal

Roy Plomley's castaway is botanist David Bellamy.Favourite track: The Better Land by Clara Butt Book: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien Luxury: Linen sheets

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Michael Crawford.Favourite track: Gloria by Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin Book: Self Sufficiency by John Seymour Luxury: Inflatable rubber woman

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer John Wain.Favourite track: Voi Che Sapete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Life of Johnson by James Boswell Luxury: Canoe

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Jule Styne.Favourite track: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Luxury: Picture of family