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Radio 4,22 Jan 1977,30 mins

Michael Holroyd

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Roy Plomley's castaway is biographer Michael Holroyd. Favourite track: String Quartet No 16 (Opus 135) by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The High Hill of the Muses by Hugh Kingsmill Luxury: Waterbed

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    Artist
  2. 1.
    Dinner For One Please, James
    Dinner For One Please, James
    Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson
  3. 2.
    Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
    Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
    Richard Wagner
  4. 3.
    String Quartet No. 2 in E Flat