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Fragment Archive 1942-1959 Podcast
Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island
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John Paddy Carstairs
Mon 7 Dec 1959
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and filmmaker John Paddy Carstairs
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Richard Dimbleby
Mon 13 Oct 1958
Roy Plomley's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Richard Dimbleby
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