Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975

Roy Plomley's castaway is singer Bing Crosby. Favourite track: South Rampart Street Parade by Bob Crosby and his Bobcats Book: Roget's Thesaurus by Roget Luxury: Guitar

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and musician Stanley Holloway. Favourite track: And This Is My Beloved by Doretta Morrow Book: A book on the musical plays of the last century Luxury: Manicure and pedicure set

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer John Julius Norwich. Favourite track: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer C P Snow. Favourite track: Henry IV Part II (Act 3, Scene 2) by William Shakespeare Book: Russian grammar Luxury: Writing materials

Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Anthony Dowell. Favourite track: The Prince Of The Pagodas by Benjamin Britten Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Luxury: Radio receiver

Roy Plomley's castaway is painter Helen Bradley. Favourite track: Trois Gymnopédies by Satie Book: A great tome on the law Luxury: A soap that kills mosquitoes

Roy Plomley's castaway is cricket commentator John Arlott. Favourite track: Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Book: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Luxury: Champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is farce writer Ben Travers. Favourite track: My Love Parade by Maurice Chevalier Book: The collected works by Robert Browning Luxury: Pipes and tobacco

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Patricia Hayes. Favourite track: Nocturne No. 8 In D Flat (Opus 72) by Frédéric Chopin Book: Kristin Lauransdatter by Sigrid Undset Luxury: Four-poster bed

Roy Plomley's castaway is Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. Favourite track: Ombra Mai Fù by George Frideric Handel Book: The Golden Treasury by Francis Palgrave Luxury: Champagne

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and playwright Emlyn Williams. Favourite track: Elizabethan Serenade by Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra Book: Dictionary Luxury: Typewriter, pen, paper

Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Polly James. Favourite track: Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (Che gelida manina) (from La Boheme) by Giacomo Puccini Book: Victoria RI by Countess Elizabeth Longford Luxury: Group photograph of friends

Roy Plomley's castaway is angler Richard Walker. Favourite track: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini Book: Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling Luxury: Benvenuto Cellini's Golden Salt Cellar

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Leslie Mitchell. Favourite track: Summer Night On The River by Frederick Delius Book: Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci Luxury: Silver box containing a miniature singing bird

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart. Favourite track: Dream by The Pied Pipers Book: Musical arrangements by Dave Brubeck Luxury: Piano

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster David Dimbleby. Favourite track: Concerto in D Minor For Violin, Oboe and Strings by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The Oxford English Dictionary Luxury: Havana cigars

Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Philip Hope-Wallace. Favourite track: Dies Irae and Salve Me by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Luxury: Ivory chess set

Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster Brian Johnston. Favourite track: Double Damask by Cicely Courtneidge & Ivor McLaren Book: Funny Way to be a Hero by James Fisher Luxury: Automatic bowling machine & cricket balls

Roy Plomley's castaway is commentator Eddie Waring. Favourite track: The Twenty-Third Psalm by Glasgow Orpheus Choir Book: Bradshaw's Railway Timetable Luxury: Couch

Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Roy Fox. Favourite track: Whispering by Roy Fox and his Orchestra Book: Volume of crossword puzzles Luxury: Radio receiver