Spoof phone-in show from the creators of The Fast Show. 
1.
Violet Loraine & George Robey
If You Were The Only Girl In The World
Anthony Powell
Broadcast
First broadcast: Sat 16 Oct 1976
Novelist
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Anthony Powell.
Choices
3.
Giuseppe Verdi
La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)
Soloist: Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard Bonynge
4.
Johann Strauss II
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Willi Boskovsky
5.
Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
6.
Castaway's favourite
Constant Lambert
The Rio Grande
Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra Conductor: Constant Lambert
8.
Claude Debussy
Ibéria (from Images)
Orchestra: Orchestra De La Suisse Romande Conductor: Ernest Ansermet
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