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Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
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Reverend W Awdry
Mon 19 Oct 1964
Roy Plomley's castaway is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine Reverend W Awdry
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Antony Hopkins
Mon 1 Oct 1962
Roy Plomley's castaway is composer, conductor and pianist Antony Hopkins.
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