List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–46)
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 |
000000001942-01-29-000029 January 1942 | Vic Oliver | No book | No item |
000000001942-02-05-00005 February 1942 | James Agate | No book | No item |
000000001942-02-12-000012 February 1942 | Commander Campbell | No book | No item |
000000001942-02-19-000019 February 1942 | C B Cochran | No book | No item |
000000001942-02-26-000026 February 1942 | Pat Kirkwood | No book | No item |
000000001942-03-05-00005 March 1942 | Jack Hylton | No book | No item |
000000001942-03-12-000012 March 1942 | Captain A E Dingle | No book | No item |
000000001942-03-19-000019 March 1942 | Joan Jay | No book | No item |
000000001942-03-26-000026 March 1942 | Reverend Canon W H Elliott | No book | No item |
000000001942-04-02-00002 April 1942 | Arthur Askey | No book | No item |
000000001942-04-09-00009 April 1942 | Eva Turner | No book | No item |
000000001942-04-16-000016 April 1942 | Harry Parry | No book | No item |
000000001942-04-23-000023 April 1942 | Tom Webster | No book | No item |
000000001942-04-30-000030 April 1942 | Ivor Novello | No book | No item |
000000001942-05-07-00007 May 1942 | Roy Plomley | No book | No item |
000000001942-07-09-00009 July 1942 | Beatrice Lillie | No book | No item |
000000001942-07-23-000023 July 1942 | Leslie Howard | No book | No item |
000000001942-08-06-00006 August 1942 | Nathaniel Gubbins | No book | No item |
000000001942-08-20-000020 August 1942 | Barrington Dalby | No book | No item |
000000001942-09-10-000010 September 1942 | Emlyn Williams | No book | No item |
000000001942-09-17-000017 September 1942 | Lord Elton | No book | No item |
000000001942-09-25-000025 September 1942 | Richard Tauber | No book | No item |
000000001942-10-09-00009 October 1942 | Jonah Barrington | No book | No item |
000000001942-10-24-000024 October 1942 | Michael Powell | No book | No item |
000000001942-12-03-00003 December 1942 | Edward Evans | No book | No item |
1943
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
000000001943-03-20-000020 March 1943 | Donald McCullough | No book | No item |
000000001943-04-12-000012 April 1943 | Ian Hay | No book | No item |
000000001943-06-08-00008 June 1943 | Tom Driberg | No book | No item |
000000001943-06-19-000019 June 1943 | Frank Swinnerton | No book | No item |
000000001943-06-26-000026 June 1943 | Beverley Baxter | No book | No item |
000000001943-07-16-000016 July 1943 | Herbert Hodge | No book | No item |
000000001943-07-26-000026 July 1943 | C. A. Lejeune | No book | No item |
000000001943-08-16-000016 August 1943 | Ivor Brown | No book | No item |
000000001943-10-02-00002 October 1943 | Tom Harrisson | No book | No item |
000000001943-10-05-00005 October 1943 | Eleanor Smith | No book | No item |
000000001943-10-11-000011 October 1943 | Stephen Tallents | No book | No item |
000000001943-11-16-000016 November 1943 | C. H. Middleton | No book | No item |
000000001943-11-23-000023 November 1943 | J. B. Morton | No book | No item |
000000001943-12-31-000031 December 1943 | Charles Hill | No book | No item |
1944
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
000000001944-01-08-00008 January 1944 | Alan Dent | No book | No item |
000000001944-01-29-000029 January 1944 | Pamela Frankau | No book | No item |
000000001944-02-12-000012 February 1944 | Ralph Reader | No book | No item |
000000001944-02-19-000019 February 1944 | Guy Gibson | No book | No item |
000000001944-03-20-000020 March 1944 | Mabel Constanduros | No book | No item |
1945
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
000000001945-08-04-00004 August 1945 | Frederick Grisewood | No book | No item |
000000001945-08-11-000011 August 1945 | Peter Fettes | No book | No item |
000000001945-08-18-000018 August 1945 | Jill Balcon | No book | No item |
000000001945-08-25-000025 August 1945 | Michael Harrison | No book | No item |
000000001945-09-01-00001 September 1945 | Joan Edgar | No book | No item |
000000001945-09-08-00008 September 1945 | Roy Williams | No book | No item |
000000001945-09-15-000015 September 1945 | Alvar Lidell | No book | No item |
000000001945-09-22-000022 September 1945 | Pat Butler | No book | No item |
000000001945-09-29-000029 September 1945 | Margaret Hubble | No book | No item |
000000001945-10-06-00006 October 1945 | Michael Redgrave | No book | No item |
000000001945-10-13-000013 October 1945 | Claire Luce | No book | No item |
000000001945-10-20-000020 October 1945 | C. E. M. Joad | No book | No item |
000000001945-10-27-000027 October 1945 | Celia Johnson | No book | No item |
000000001945-11-03-00003 November 1945 | Valerie Hobson | No book | No item |
000000001945-11-10-000010 November 1945 | Bobby Howes | No book | No item |
000000001945-11-17-000017 November 1945 | Deborah Kerr | No book | No item |
000000001945-11-24-000024 November 1945 | Henry Wheeler | No book | No item |
000000001945-12-01-00001 December 1945 | Eileen Joyce | No book | No item |
000000001945-12-08-00008 December 1945 | Stewart Granger | No book | No item |
000000001945-12-15-000015 December 1945 | Richard Goolden | No book | No item |
000000001945-12-22-000022 December 1945 | Nova Pilbeam | No book | No item |
000000001945-12-29-000029 December 1945 | Sonia Dresdel | No book | No item |
1946
Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
000000001946-01-05-00005 January 1946 | Barbara Mullen | No book | No item |
References
- Plomley, Roy. Desert Island Lists (1984 ed.). Hutchinson & Co. ISBN 0-09-151761-3.