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Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Roy Plomley

Alfred Hitchcock

Desert Island Discs: Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

19/10/1959

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

Film director Alfred Hitchcock is Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock is Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs. This is the only remaining extract the BBC has of this episode.

Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs is film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Favourite track: Siegfried's Horn Call by Richard Wagner
Book: Household Management by Mrs Beeton
Luxury: Continental railway timetable

This is the only extract the BBC has of this episode of Desert Island Discs.

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