Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

by BBC Radio 4

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island

Clive James
Feb 16, 2017 – 39:42
Placido Domingo
Dec 27, 1980 – 34:40
Arthur Askey
Dec 20, 1980 – 33:57
Neville Marriner
Dec 13, 1980 – 34:42
Jose Carreras
Dec 6, 1980 – 30:55
Tom Conti
Nov 22, 1980 – 33:47
Mark Elder
Nov 8, 1980 – 34:01
Derek Tangye
Nov 1, 1980 – 34:56
Catherine Gaskin
Oct 25, 1980 – 40:05
Brian Glover
Oct 18, 1980 – 30:50
Sir John Tooley
Oct 11, 1980 – 34:28
Ronald Lockley
Oct 4, 1980 – 35:25
Andrea Newman
Sep 27, 1980 – 37:01
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Sep 20, 1980 – 34:33
Earl Of Snowdon
Sep 6, 1980 – 35:13
Renata Scotto
Aug 30, 1980 – 33:10
Tristan Jones
Aug 23, 1980 – 35:42
Stephen Sondheim
Aug 16, 1980 – 32:31
William Trevor
Aug 9, 1980 – 32:33
Gregory Peck
Aug 2, 1980 – 43:58
David Scott Blackhall
Jul 26, 1980 – 30:45
Tom Lehrer
Jul 12, 1980 – 30:22
V S Naipaul
Jul 5, 1980 – 34:46
Barbara Woodhouse
Jun 28, 1980 – 32:16
General Sir John Hackett
Jun 21, 1980 – 33:51
Earl Hines
May 24, 1980 – 33:24
Rt Hon Lord Denning
May 17, 1980 – 33:33
Natalie Wood
May 10, 1980 – 30:56
Lindsay Anderson
May 3, 1980 – 35:04
Erich Segal
Apr 19, 1980 – 38:32
Leonard Rossiter
Apr 12, 1980 – 34:20
Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth
Apr 5, 1980 – 36:16
Geoffrey Household
Mar 15, 1980 – 34:04
Kiri Te Kanawa
Mar 8, 1980 – 32:30
Fay Weldon
Feb 23, 1980 – 33:11
Timothy West
Feb 16, 1980 – 36:41
Claudio Abbado
Feb 9, 1980 – 33:32
Otto Preminger
Feb 2, 1980 – 33:04
Sir Cecil Beaton
Jan 26, 1980 – 33:22
Dizzy Gillespie
Jan 19, 1980 – 30:03
Sir Peter Parker
Jan 12, 1980 – 33:42
Reginald Goodall
Jan 5, 1980 – 28:29
Sir Osbert Lancaster
Dec 22, 1979 – 32:08
Norman Mailer
Dec 15, 1979 – 31:59
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Dec 8, 1979 – 32:21
Charles Causley
Dec 1, 1979 – 31:57
Peter Shaffer
Nov 24, 1979 – 32:52
Michael Palin
Nov 17, 1979 – 30:47
Marti Caine
Nov 10, 1979 – 29:04
Sian Phillips
Nov 3, 1979 – 31:17

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