Desert Island Discs - Wilfred Thesiger

Roy Plomley's castaway is explorer Wilfred Thesiger.

Favourite track: Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré
Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Supply of acid drops

Published on Saturday, 6th October 1979.

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