Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Sir Terence Rattigan.
Favourite track: Forty Years On by Harrow School Boys
Book: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Luxury: Dom Perignon Champagne
Published on Saturday, 12th January 1974.
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