List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–1946)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites celebrities to become "castaways" and choose eight pieces of music that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. During the period listed here, the later rule allowing castaways a book and a luxury item had not yet been introduced and as such, choices have not been listed.

Jack Hylton was one of the first celebrities to be cast away.

1942
DateCastawayBookLuxury
29 January 1942Vic OliverNo bookNo item
5 February 1942James AgateNo bookNo item
12 February 1942Commander A B CampbellNo bookNo item
19 February 1942C B CochranNo bookNo item
26 February 1942Pat KirkwoodNo bookNo item
5 March 1942Jack HyltonNo bookNo item
12 March 1942Captain A E DingleNo bookNo item
19 March 1942Joan JayNo bookNo item
26 March 1942Reverend Canon W H ElliottNo bookNo item
2 April 1942Arthur AskeyNo bookNo item
9 April 1942Eva TurnerNo bookNo item
16 April 1942Harry ParryNo bookNo item
23 April 1942Tom WebsterNo bookNo item
30 April 1942Ivor NovelloNo bookNo item
7 May 1942Roy PlomleyNo bookNo item
9 July 1942Beatrice LillieNo bookNo item
23 July 1942Leslie HowardNo bookNo item
6 August 1942Nathaniel GubbinsNo bookNo item
20 August 1942Barrington DalbyNo bookNo item
10 September 1942Emlyn WilliamsNo bookNo item
17 September 1942Lord EltonNo bookNo item
25 September 1942Richard TauberNo bookNo item
9 October 1942Jonah BarringtonNo bookNo item
24 October 1942Michael PowellNo bookNo item
3 December 1942Admiral Sir Edward EvansNo bookNo item

1943
DateCastawayBookLuxury
20 March 1943Donald McCulloughNo bookNo item
12 April 1943Ian HayNo bookNo item
8 June 1943Tom DribergNo bookNo item
19 June 1943Frank SwinnertonNo bookNo item
26 June 1943Beverley BaxterNo bookNo item
16 July 1943Herbert HodgeNo bookNo item
26 July 1943C. A. LejeuneNo bookNo item
16 August 1943Ivor BrownNo bookNo item
2 October 1943Tom HarrissonNo bookNo item
5 October 1943Lady Eleanor SmithNo bookNo item
11 October 1943Sir Stephen TallentsNo bookNo item
16 November 1943C. H. MiddletonNo bookNo item
23 November 1943J. B. MortonNo bookNo item
31 December 1943Charles HillNo bookNo item

1944
DateCastawayBookLuxury
8 January 1944Alan DentNo bookNo item
29 January 1944Pamela FrankauNo bookNo item
12 February 1944Ralph ReaderNo bookNo item
19 February 1944Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFCNo bookNo item
20 March 1944Mabel ConstandurosNo bookNo item

1945
DateCastawayBookLuxury
4 August 1945Frederick GrisewoodNo bookNo item
11 August 1945Peter FettesNo bookNo item
18 August 1945Jill BalconNo bookNo item
25 August 1945Michael HarrisonNo bookNo item
1 September 1945Joan EdgarNo bookNo item
8 September 1945Roy WilliamsNo bookNo item
15 September 1945Alvar LidellNo bookNo item
22 September 1945Pat ButlerNo bookNo item
29 September 1945Margaret HubbleNo bookNo item
6 October 1945Michael RedgraveNo bookNo item
13 October 1945Claire LuceNo bookNo item
20 October 1945C. E. M. JoadNo bookNo item
27 October 1945Celia JohnsonNo bookNo item
3 November 1945Valerie HobsonNo bookNo item
10 November 1945Bobby HowesNo bookNo item
17 November 1945Deborah KerrNo bookNo item
24 November 1945Henry WheelerNo bookNo item
1 December 1945Eileen JoyceNo bookNo item
8 December 1945Stewart GrangerNo bookNo item
15 December 1945Richard GooldenNo bookNo item
22 December 1945Nova PilbeamNo bookNo item
29 December 1945Sonia DresdelNo bookNo item

1946
DateCastawayBookLuxury
5 January 1946Barbara MullenNo bookNo item

References
  • Plomley, Roy. Desert Island Lists (1984 ed.). Hutchinson & Co. ISBN 0-09-151761-3.
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