Warren Mitchell

Actor Warren Mitchell is castaway by Sue Lawley.

Arthur Miller praised his portrayal of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre and he played King Lear in Australia in 1978 and at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1995.

However, Warren will always be best remembered for Alf Garnett, the bigoted, bully in Till Death Us Do Part which first aired on BBC TV in 1965.

DISC ONE: Soloists David Healey, Barry Rutter and Kevin Williams - Frank Loesser’s Fugue For Tinhorns (from Guys and Dolls)
DISC TWO: Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
- Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
DISC THREE: Paul Scofield reading Four Quartets
DISC FOUR: Eddie Condon - The Song is Ended
DISC FIVE: Sir John Betjeman - Youth and Age on Beaulieu River
DISC SIX: Judith Durham - Cake Walking Babies from Home
DISC SEVEN: Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Jarvi - George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody
DISC EIGHT: Soloists Yvonne Kenny, Diana Montague, and Rosemary Joshua with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Parry - Richard Strauss’s "Marie Theres'! Hab' mir's gelobt" (Act 3 Trio) (from Der Rosenkavalier)

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Soloists Yvonne Kenny, Diana Montague, and Rosemary Joshua with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Parry - Richard Strauss’s Marie Theres'! Hab' mir's gelobt (Act 3 Trio) (from Der Rosenkavalier)
BOOK CHOICE: Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
LUXURY CHOICE: Organ (from the Royal Albert Hall)

Producer Angie Nehring

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.