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Desert Island Discs

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Sir Alec Guinness, the actor, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with oy Plomley, who devised the programme.

(Alec Guinness is in 'The Old Country' at the Queen's Theatre, London)

12.55 (medium only) Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
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Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Sir Alec Guinness
Producer:
Derek Drescher

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