List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970)
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate, nor anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests between 1961 and 1970 are listed here.
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1962
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1966
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | More info |
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1 January 1966 | Jimmy Shand | The Second World War by Sir Winston Churchill | Tin whistle | more |
3 January 1966 | Professor W. E. Swinton | Whitaker's Almanac | Library | more |
10 January 1966 | Patience Strong | Complete Works by William Wordsworth | Indian painting showing the crucifixion | more |
24 January 1966 | Charlton Heston | Encyclopædia Britannica | Tennis practice equipment | more |
31 January 1966 | Tommy Simpson | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Golfing equipment | more |
7 February 1966 | Christopher Hopper | History of England | Landscape by Constable | more |
14 February 1966 | Andrew Cruickshank | Journal by Søren Kierkegaard | Renoir's The Bear at the Folies Bergere | more |
21 February 1966 | Marie Collier | Mrs Mackintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young | Etruscan frieze of horses | more |
28 February 1966 | Cyril Connolly | A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Foam rubber sleeping bag | more |
7 March 1966 | Bill Fraser | Italian language course | Writing materials | more |
14 March 1966 | Sir Frank Francis | The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope | Golf clubs and balls | more |
21 March 1966 | G. O. Nickalls | Pear's Cyclopedia | Rembrandt's Titus | more |
28 March 1966 | Sara Leighton | Poetry by T. S. Elliot | Michelangelo's Pieta | more |
4 April 1966 | Hubert Gregg | History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Pink champagne | more |
11 April 1966 | Terry Scott | French language course | Eau de Cologne | more |
18 April 1966 | Alan Bullock | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | Writing materials | more |
25 April 1966 | Bob & Alf Pearson | ABC Railway Timetable and History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Seeds and a piano | more |
2 May 1966 | Lord Soper | Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome | Trombone | more |
9 May 1966 | Inia Te Wiata | Arts and Crafts of the Maori People by Hamilton | Painting by Michelangelo | more |
16 May 1966 | Henry Cooper | Do-it-yourself manual | Training gear | more |
23 May 1966 | Emily MacManus | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | Foam rubber mattress and mosquito net | more |
30 May 1966 | Bill Simpson | Songs and poems by Robert Burns | Sports equipment | more |
6 June 1966 | Charles Craig | Who's Who | Bed | more |
13 June 1966 | Nina & Frederik | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | A harp and a flute | more |
20 June 1966 | Lilli Palmer | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Painting materials | more |
27 June 1966 | Wilfred Andrews | Press cutting albums | Painting materials | more |
4 July 1966 | Ninette de Valois | Poetry by W.B. Yeats | Writing materials | more |
11 July 1966 | Sir Stanley Rous | Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson | Field glasses | more |
18 July 1966 | Jennifer Vyvyan | Her favourite novels by Charles Dickens | Painting equipment | more |
25 July 1966 | Virginia McKenna | On Playing With Lions by Bill Travers | Writing materials | more |
1 August 1966 | Nat Gonella | Collected short stories by Damon Runyon | Golf clubs and balls | more |
8 August 1966 | Michael Craig | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame | Musical instrument | more |
15 August 1966 | Peter Diamand | Encyclopædia Britannica | Head of Nefertiti from the Berlin Museum | more |
22 August 1966 | Bryan Forbes | Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand | Roulette wheel | more |
29 August 1966 | Morecambe and Wise | Encyclopædia Britannica and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Sir Winston Churchill | Deck chair and a ticket machine | more |
5 September 1966 | David Hicks | A Le Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust | Mexican crystal skull | more |
12 September 1966 | Derek Oldham | Encyclopædia Britannica | Insect repellent | more |
19 September 1966 | June Ritchie | The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico | Onion plants | more |
26 September 1966 | Peter Wilson | His favourite novels by E. M. Forster | Bertholdo's Apollo | more |
3 October 1966 | Talbot Duckmanton | Diary by Samuel Pepys | Soap | more |
10 October 1966 | Katherine Whitehorn | Her favourite books by William Faulkner | Negligee | more |
17 October 1966 | Jacques Brunius | Complete works by Lewis Carroll | Broken and unplayable pop record | more |
24 October 1966 | Danny La Rue | Encyclopedia | Refrigerator | more |
31 October 1966 | Mitch Miller | Anthology of poetry | Oboe | more |
7 November 1966 | Arnold Wesker | No book | Selection of pictures | more |
14 November 1966 | Stephen Bishop | The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Piano | more |
21 November 1966 | Sarah Churchill | Reminisces of the early life by Sir Winston Churchill | Bath with hot water | more |
28 November 1966 | Anthony Burgess | Finnegans Wake by James Joyce | Music manuscript paper, pencils, and a rubber | more |
5 December 1966 | Captain John Ridgway & Sergent Chay Blyth | Dictionary and an anthology of poetry | Shaving kit and a leather armchair | more |
12 December 1966 | Leonard Cottrell | Collected works by Homer | Bronze statue of Poseidon | more |
19 December 1966 | Jack Brabham | Textbook on advanced mechanical engineering | None | more |
24 December 1966 | Gwendoline Kirby | The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien | Field glasses | more |
26 December 1966 | Georg Solti | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Michelangelo's The Last Judgement | more |
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1970
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