The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites celebrities to become "castaways" and choose eight pieces of music that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. During the period listed here, the later rule allowing castaways a book and a luxury item had not yet been introduced and as such, choices have not been listed.

1942 DateCastawayBookLuxuryVic OliverNo bookNo itemJames AgateNo bookNo itemCommander A B CampbellNo bookNo itemC B CochranNo bookNo itemPat KirkwoodNo bookGardenia bushJack HyltonNo bookNo itemCaptain A E DingleNo bookNo itemJoan JayNo bookNo itemReverend Canon W H ElliottNo bookNo itemArthur AskeyNo bookNo itemEva TurnerNo bookNo itemHarry ParryNo bookNo itemTom WebsterNo bookNo itemIvor NovelloNo bookNo itemRoy PlomleyNo bookNo itemBeatrice LillieNo bookNo itemLeslie HowardNo bookNo itemNathaniel GubbinsNo bookNo itemBarrington DalbyNo bookNo itemEmlyn WilliamsNo bookNo itemLord EltonNo bookNo itemRichard TauberNo bookNo itemJonah BarringtonNo bookNo itemMichael PowellNo bookNo itemAdmiral Sir Edward EvansNo bookNo item

1943 DateCastawayBookLuxuryDonald McCulloughNo bookNo itemIan HayNo bookNo itemTom DribergNo bookNo itemFrank SwinnertonNo bookNo itemBeverley BaxterNo bookNo itemHerbert HodgeNo bookNo itemC. A. LejeuneNo bookNo itemIvor BrownNo bookNo itemTom HarrissonNo bookNo itemLady Eleanor SmithNo bookNo itemSir Stephen TallentsNo bookNo itemC. H. MiddletonNo bookNo itemJ. B. MortonNo bookNo itemCharles HillNo bookNo item

1944 DateCastawayBookLuxuryAlan DentNo bookNo itemPamela FrankauNo bookNo itemRalph ReaderNo bookNo itemWing Commander Guy GibsonNo bookNo itemMabel ConstandurosNo bookNo item

1945 DateCastawayBookLuxuryFrederick GrisewoodNo bookNo itemPeter FettesNo bookNo itemJill BalconNo bookNo itemMichael HarrisonNo bookNo itemJoan EdgarNo bookNo itemRoy WilliamsNo bookNo itemAlvar LidellNo bookNo itemPat ButlerNo bookNo itemMargaret HubbleNo bookNo itemMichael RedgraveNo bookNo itemClaire LuceNo bookNo itemC. E. M. JoadNo bookNo itemCelia JohnsonNo bookNo itemValerie HobsonNo bookNo itemBobby HowesNo bookNo itemDeborah KerrNo bookNo itemHenry WheelerNo bookNo itemEileen JoyceNo bookNo itemStewart GrangerNo bookNo itemRichard GooldenNo bookNo itemNova PilbeamNo bookNo itemSonia DresdelNo bookNo item

1946 DateCastawayBookLuxuryBarbara MullenNo bookNo item

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