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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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Helen Mirren Nov 27, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Helen Mirren.

Favourite track: Pass The Dutchie by Musical Youth Book: The Bhagavad-Gita Luxury: Silk underwear

P D James Nov 20, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer P D James.

Favourite track: St Matthew Passion (First Chorus) by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Claret

Rosamond Lehmann Nov 13, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosamond Lehmann.

Favourite track: Nunc Dimittis by Burgon Book: Letters by Marquise de Sevigne Luxury: Writing Materials

Thomas Allen Nov 06, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Thomas Allen.

Favourite track: Concerto in C For Violin, Cello, Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Luxury: Golf clubs and balls

Rt Hon. George Thomas Oct 30, 1982

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Lord Tonypandy, George Thomas, now Chairman of the National Children's Homes, was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983. He was invited to choose the eight records he would take to the mythical island, and he also talked to Roy Plomley about his childhood in Wales and about his parliamentary career which he began when he won the Cardiff Central seat in 1945.

Book: The Methodist hymn book Luxury: Writing materials

Mike Harding Oct 23, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Mike Harding.

Favourite track: 2000-Year-Old Man by Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Ordnance Survey maps and a set of books about the Fells

Geoffrey Grigson Oct 16, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Geoffrey Grigson.

Favourite track: She Never Told Her Love by Franz Joseph Haydn Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Pate de foie gras

N.Busch, J.Kuchmy, M.Parry, M.Wilson Oct 09, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaways are members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Book: Books by Hector Berlioz, Charles Dickens, Hugh Johnson and a cookery book Luxury: Razor and shaving soap, a video player with a tape of Laurel & Hardy, wine and a violin

David Lloyd Jones Oct 02, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is artistic director of Opera North David Lloyd Jones.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 9 In C by Franz Schubert Book: Journal by Edmond Goncourt

Wilbur Smith Sep 25, 1982

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Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Wilbur Smith.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Brass bedstead and a feather mattress

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