In this week's edition of Desert Island Discs the castaway is film actor and writer Dirk Bogarde. Among many other things, he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about why life as a national heart-throb has never really suited him, about his many years living in Provence and about the film of which he himself is most proud - Visconti's Death in Venice.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: 5th Symphony 4th Movement by Gustav Mahler
Book: Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
Luxury: Distillery Show less