Val Doonican

From The Swingle Singers to Charlie Byrd.

Popular Irish singer and guitarist Val Doonican shares his castaway choices with Roy Plomley.

Val hosted numerous TV series for the BBC from 1965 to 1986, pulling in over 17 million viewers

He was also rarely out of the UK charts in the 1960s and '70s with songs like Walk Tall and Elusive Butterfly.

Val died aged 88 in 2015.

DISC ONE: Swingle Singers - Bach English Suite No.2
DISC TWO: Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
DISC THREE: George Jones - Four-O Thirty-Three
DISC FOUR: Concerto in D - John Williams
DISC FIVE: People Will Say We're in Love (Oklahoma) - Erroll Garner
DISC SIX: Dvorak - Symphony No.8 – Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
DISC SEVEN: Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
DISC EIGHT: As Praias Desertas - Charlie Byrd

BOOK CHOICE – a big anthology of classic literature
LUXURY CHOICE – a guitar
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in January 1970.