Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985

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 McCartney. 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