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Richard Dimbleby

Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Richard Dimbleby.

Luxury: Piano

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Mon 13 Oct 1958 13:10
成人快手 Service

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walk眉re)

    Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Arturo Toscanini

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

    Conductor: Leopold Stokowski. Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra.

    Soloist: Albert Schweitzer

  • Brendan O鈥橠owda

    The Little Irish Girl

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)

    Soloist: Pablo Casals, Nikolai Mednikoff

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune 'All people that on earth do dwell'

    From the Coronation Service of HM Queen Elizabeth II

  • Phil Harris and His Orchestra

    Woodman, Spare that Tree

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Galliard of the Sons of Morning (from Job)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Adrian Boult

  • William Walton

    Coronation March: Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: William Walton

  • Luxury Choice

    • Piano

Credits

Presenter Roy Plomley
Interviewed Guest Richard Dimbleby

Broadcast

  • Mon 13 Oct 1958 13:10
    成人快手 Service

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