Roy Plomley's castaway is novelist and playwright Henry Cecil.
Favourite track: String Quartet in B Flat by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Modern English Usage by Henry W Fowler
Luxury: Aspirin
Published on Monday, 10th July 1972.
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