List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–46)
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Jack Hylton was one of the first celebrities to be cast away.
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites celebrities to become "castaways" and choose eight pieces of music that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. During the period listed here, the later rule allowing castaways a book and a luxury item had not yet been introduced and as such, choices have not been listed.
1942
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
29 January 1942 | Vic Oliver | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
5 February 1942 | James Agate | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
12 February 1942 | A. B. Campbell | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
19 February 1942 | Charles B. Cochran | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
26 February 1942 | Pat Kirkwood | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
5 March 1942 | Jack Hylton | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
12 March 1942 | A. E. Dingle | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
19 March 1942 | Joan Jay | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
26 March 1942 | W H Elliott | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
2 April 1942 | Arthur Askey | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
9 April 1942 | Eva Turner | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
16 April 1942 | Harry Parry | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
23 April 1942 | Tom Webster | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
30 April 1942 | Ivor Novello | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
7 May 1942 | Roy Plomley | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
9 July 1942 | Beatrice Lillie | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
23 July 1942 | Leslie Howard | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
6 August 1942 | Nathaniel Gubbins | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
20 August 1942 | Barrington Dalby | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
10 September 1942 | Emlyn Williams | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
17 September 1942 | Lord Elton | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
25 September 1942 | Richard Tauber | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
9 October 1942 | Jonah Barrington | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
24 October 1942 | Michael Powell | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
3 December 1942 | Edward Evans | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
1943
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
20 March 1943 | Donald McCullough | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
12 April 1943 | Ian Hay | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
8 June 1943 | Tom Driberg | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
19 June 1943 | Frank Swinnerton | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
26 June 1943 | Beverley Baxter | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
16 July 1943 | Herbert Hodge | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
26 July 1943 | C. A. Lejeune | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
16 August 1943 | Ivor Brown | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
2 October 1943 | Tom Harrisson | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
5 October 1943 | Eleanor Smith | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
11 October 1943 | Stephen Tallents | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
16 November 1943 | C. H. Middleton | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
23 November 1943 | J. B. Morton | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
31 December 1943 | Charles Hill | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
1944
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
8 January 1944 | Alan Dent | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
29 January 1944 | Pamela Frankau | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
12 February 1944 | Ralph Reader | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
19 February 1944 | Guy Gibson | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
20 March 1944 | Mabel Constanduros | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
1945
1946
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
5 January 1946 | Barbara Mullen | No bookNo book | No itemNo item |
References
- Plomley, Roy. Desert Island Lists (1984 ed.). Hutchinson & Co. ISBN 0-09-151761-3.