Julian Bream first played the guitar on radio in Children's Hour when he was only 13. This led to guest appearances in a series on the Light Programme, and so his career took off. Before long he also took up the lute and played his part in the revival of interest in early music. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he talks about his long career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Julian Bream

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Rosamond Lehmann.

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

Rosamond Lehmann

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

N.Busch, J.Kuchmy, M.Parry, M.Wilson

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Helene Hanff.

Favourite track: In Tears Of Grief by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Memoirs by Louis De Rouvroy
Luxury: Scrabble

Helene Hanff

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Alan Howard.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 15 In D by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Piano manual 
Luxury: Piano

Alan Howard

Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist James Clavell.

Favourite track: The Impossible Dream by Roberta Flack
Book: The Koran

James Clavell

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Joseph Cotten.

Favourite track: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor by Johannes Brahms
Book: Gardening manual
Luxury: Boat building book

Joseph Cotten

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Elspeth Huxley.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg
Book: Novels by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Camera and film

Elspeth Huxley

Roy Plomley's castaway is producer Terry Hands.

Favourite track: String Quartet in C by Franz Joseph Haydn
Book: Dictionary
Luxury: Cello

Terry Hands

Roy Plomley's castaway is director Gillian Lynne.

Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett
Book: French language course
Luxury: Eyelash curlers

Gillian Lynne

Roy Plomley's castaway is bass singer Eric Shilling.

Favourite track: Deh Vieni Non Tardar by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Collin's Albatross Book of Verse by Louis Untermeyer
Luxury: Astronomical telescope

Eric Shilling

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Edmund Rubbra.

Favourite track: Symphony No .9 In C by Franz Schubert
Book: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Luxury: Music manuscript paper

Edmund Rubbra

Roy Plomley's castaway is boxer Alan Minter.

Favourite track: My Way by Frank Sinatra
Book: Survival manual
Luxury: Solar-powered transistor radio

Alan Minter

Roy Plomley's castaway is archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.

Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Collected works  by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Luxury: Wine

Jacquetta Hawkes

Roy Plomley's castaway is conductor Antal Dorati.

Favourite track: Rondo Capriccioso by Felix Mendelssohn
Book: The Golden Man by Yokoi
Luxury: Italian landscape drawing from his collection

Antal Dorati

Roy Plomley's castaway is World Champion decathlete Daley Thompson.

Favourite track: Unchained Melody by George Benson
Book: Novels by John Wyndham
Luxury: Guitar and instruction book

Daley Thompson

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Freddie Jones.

Book: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Luxury: Liebig condenser for distilling gin

Freddie Jones

Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Robert Tear.

Favourite track: Concerto For Double String Orchestra by Michael Tippett
Book: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
Luxury: Postcards of paintings with poems on the back

Robert Tear

Roy Plomley's castaway is violinist Salvatore Accardo.

Favourite track: Che Faro Senza Euridice by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
Book: The Odyssey by Homer
Luxury: Violin and strings

Salvatore Accardo

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Donald Pleasence.

Favourite track: Dies Irae by Giuseppe Verdi
Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Luxury: Writing materials

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986

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