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Roy Plomley's castaway is travel writer Paul Theroux.

Favourite track: Vergnügte Ruh by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: Anthology of English Poetry from 1400
Luxury: Champagne

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Mon 29 Mar 197612:25
BBC Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

    Shuckin' The Corn

  • e. e. cummings

    What If A Much Of A Which Of A Wind

  • Asha Bhosle

    Aaage Bhi Hame Na Tu

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major

    Soloist: Gervase De Peyer

  • Fletcher Henderson & His Band

    Alabamy Bound

  • The Band of the Coldstream Guards

    Washington Post

  • Fadhili William & The Black Shadows

    Malaika

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Cantata No. 170: Vergnügte Ruh

      Soloist: Alfred Deller

  • Book Choice

    • Anthology of English Poetry from 1400

  • Luxury Choice

    • Champagne

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestPaul Theroux

Broadcasts

  • Sat 27 Mar 197619:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 29 Mar 197612:25
    BBC Radio 4

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