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Sheila Scott

Roy Plomley's castaway is pilot Sheila Scott.

Favourite track: Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor (Opus 30) by Sergei Rachmaninov
Book: Search for the Miraculous and New Model of the Universe by Peter Ouspensky
Luxury: Tobacco seeds

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Mon 16 Jan 1967 13:10
Home Service

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Neptune (from The Planets)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Malcolm Sargent

  • Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

    Boogie Woogie

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Nights Dream Overture

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Orchestra Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

      Soloist: Vladimir Ashkenazy Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conductor: Ernest Ansermet

  • Bill Le Sage

    Twice Times Keyboard (Theme from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1)

  • Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

  • Henry Mancini

    The Sound of Hatari

  • Book Choice

    • Search for the Miraculous - Peter Ouspensky, New Model of the Universe - Peter Ouspensky

  • Luxury Choice

    • Tobacco seeds

Credits

Presenter Roy Plomley
Interviewed Guest Sheila Scott

Broadcast

  • Mon 16 Jan 1967 13:10
    Home Service

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