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Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Lloyd. Favourite track: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book: Anthology by Charles Dickens Luxury: Writing materials
Roy Plomley's castaway is teacher and social worker Mary Stocks. Favourite track: In Tears of Grief (from St Matthew Passion), Final Chorus by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Collected novels by Jane Austen Luxury: Radio receiver
Roy Plomley's castaway is fashion house director Ginette Spanier. Favourite track: You're Sensational by Frank Sinatra Book: Notebook and pencil Luxury: Silver box
Roy Plomley's castaway is comedian Al Read. Favourite track: Waltzing Matilda by Frank Ifield Book: Think and Grow Rich and I'll Teach you Personality Luxury: Family photo album
Roy Plomley's castaway is prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn. Favourite track: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar Luxury: Skin-diver's mask
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone George Baker. Favourite track: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (from The Dream of Gerontius) by Edward Elgar Book: His favourite works by Charles Dickens Luxury: Writing materials
Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Arthur Fiedler. Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Binoculars
Roy Plomley's castaway is bass Owen Brannigan. Favourite track: Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Britten Book: The collected works by G.K. Chesterton Luxury: Trombone
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Marlene Dietrich. Favourite track: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky Book: The Telegram by Konstantin Paustovsky and A Story of Life by Konstantin Paustovsky Luxury: Mementoes box
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Jack de Manio. Favourite track: The Faithful Hussar by Louis Armstrong and his All Stars Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Scented soap
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Tallulah Bankhead. Book: The Human Situation by MacNeill Dixon Luxury: Her portrait by Augustus John
Roy Plomley's castaway is newsreader Frank Phillips. Favourite track: Etude No 13 in A Flat Major (Opus 25 No 1) by Frédéric Chopin Book: A Dictionary of Origins by Eric Partridge Luxury: Armchair
Roy Plomley's castaway is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine Reverend W Awdry. Favourite track: Baal, We Cry to Thee by Felix Mendelssohn Book: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Luxury: Writing materials
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Dirk Bogarde. Favourite track: Symphony No 5 in C Minor (Opus 67) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Luxury: Conversation Piece by John Singer Sargent - a painting of the Sitwells
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Kenneth Connor. Favourite track: Little Bit This, Little Bit That by Jimmy Durante Book: Margin Released by J B Priestley Luxury: Guitar
Roy Plomley's castaway is cellist Paul Tortelier. Favourite track: Er, der Herrlichste von Allen from Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann Book: La Petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach by Esther Meynell Luxury: Bicycle and cider
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Richard Wattis. Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Life of Disraeli by André Maurois Luxury: Bed
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Jacobs. Favourite track: God Be in My Head by Temple Church Choir Book: A Hundred-and-One Things a Girl Can Do Luxury: Piano and family photographs
Roy Plomley's castaway is industrialist Sir Miles Thomas. Favourite track: Noel Coward Fantasy by Melachrino Orchestra Book: The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill Luxury: Toothpaste
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Wilfrid Brambell. Favourite track: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach/Hess Book: Dictionary Luxury: Scotch whisky and lager
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