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Radio 4,27 Oct 1979,40 mins

Roald Dahl

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Roy Plomley's castaway is children's writer Roald Dahl. Favourite track: Agnus Dei by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: The New Oxford Book of English Verse by Helen Gardner Luxury: Still, grapevine cuttings and tobacco seeds

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    Violin Concerto in D major
    Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. 3.
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