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Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island

Leo McKern tried various careers like enginee...

: 36 minutes : 28-Apr-1984

Rosalind Plowright, the soprano, began singin...

: 34 minutes : 05-May-1984

Hugh Johnson's career was spawned when he bec...

: 35 minutes : 12-May-1984

Zubin Mehta is the Musical Director of the Ne...

: 36 minutes : 30-Jun-1984

Lord Rothschild has spent much of his life as...

: 35 minutes : 07-Jul-1984

The pianist Vlado Perlemuter, who was born 80...

: 36 minutes : 14-Jul-1984

Natalia Makarova is starring in a revival of ...

: 35 minutes : 21-Jul-1984

Sir Alfred Ayer, the philosopher who was for ...

: 34 minutes : 28-Jul-1984

Gayatri Devi, the Maharani of Jaipur, was bro...

: 34 minutes : 04-Aug-1984

Ron Goodwin has composed the scores for many ...

: 35 minutes : 11-Aug-1984