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**Desert Island Discs**

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

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Max Boyce Apr 23, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian and musician Max Boyce.

Favourite track: The First Time by MacColl Book: I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee Luxury: Oil painting equipment

Geoffrey Moorhouse Apr 16, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Geoffrey Moorhouse.

Favourite track: Notte E Giorno Faticar (Don Giovanni) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Dictionary of National Biography Luxury: Recording of curlews and Indian spices

Ruggiero Ricci Apr 09, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Ruggiero Ricci.

Favourite track: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Letters by Beethoven Luxury: The Plowden Guarneri violin

James Fox Apr 02, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Fox.

Favourite track: I Believe In You by Bob Dylan Book: Colour reproduction of Renaissance artists Luxury: Water colour equipment

Jan Morris Mar 26, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and journalist Jan Morris.

Favourite track: Badinrie by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Her own book on Venice Luxury: Astronimical telescope with Catalogue Of Nebulae

Michael Wood Mar 19, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is flying surgeon of East Africa Michael Wood.

Favourite track: Toccata and Fugue In D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Other Men's Flowers by Lord A P Wavell Luxury: Pair of field glasses

Douglas Reeman Mar 12, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Douglas Reeman.

Favourite track: The Song Of The Jellicles by T S Eliot Book: The Admiralty Seamanship Manual Luxury: Orchid-growing kit

Kenneth Macmillan Mar 05, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Kenneth Macmillan.

Favourite track: Students' Chorus by Romberg Book: The Rack by A E Ellis Luxury: Godiva chocolates from Belgium

Tom Keating Feb 26, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is painter and restorer Tom Keating.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 2 in D by Jean Sibelius Book: Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari Luxury: Mattock

James Ivory Feb 19, 1983

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Roy Plomley's castaway is director James Ivory.

Favourite track: The Three Ladies Find Tamino by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Shower with hot water

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