Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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