# List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–1946)

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

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
| 29 January 1942 | Vic Oliver | No book | No item |
| 5 February 1942 | James Agate | No book | No item |
| 12 February 1942 | Commander A B Campbell | No book | No item |
| 19 February 1942 | C B Cochran | No book | No item |
| 26 February 1942 | Pat Kirkwood | No book | Gardenia bush |
| 5 March 1942 | Jack Hylton | No book | No item |
| 12 March 1942 | Captain A E Dingle | No book | No item |
| 19 March 1942 | Joan Jay | No book | No item |
| 26 March 1942 | Reverend Canon W H Elliott | No book | No item |
| 2 April 1942 | Arthur Askey | No book | No item |
| 9 April 1942 | Eva Turner | No book | No item |
| 16 April 1942 | Harry Parry | No book | No item |
| 23 April 1942 | Tom Webster | No book | No item |
| 30 April 1942 | Ivor Novello | No book | No item |
| 7 May 1942 | Roy Plomley | No book | No item |
| 9 July 1942 | Beatrice Lillie | No book | No item |
| 23 July 1942 | Leslie Howard | No book | No item |
| 6 August 1942 | Nathaniel Gubbins | No book | No item |
| 20 August 1942 | Barrington Dalby | No book | No item |
| 10 September 1942 | Emlyn Williams | No book | No item |
| 17 September 1942 | Lord Elton | No book | No item |
| 25 September 1942 | Richard Tauber | No book | No item |
| 9 October 1942 | Jonah Barrington | No book | No item |
| 24 October 1942 | Michael Powell | No book | No item |
| 3 December 1942 | Admiral Sir Edward Evans | No book | No item |

## 1943

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
| 20 March 1943 | Donald McCullough | No book | No item |
| 12 April 1943 | Ian Hay | No book | No item |
| 8 June 1943 | Tom Driberg | No book | No item |
| 19 June 1943 | Frank Swinnerton | No book | No item |
| 26 June 1943 | Beverley Baxter | No book | No item |
| 16 July 1943 | Herbert Hodge | No book | No item |
| 26 July 1943 | C. A. Lejeune | No book | No item |
| 16 August 1943 | Ivor Brown | No book | No item |
| 2 October 1943 | Tom Harrisson | No book | No item |
| 5 October 1943 | Lady Eleanor Smith | No book | No item |
| 11 October 1943 | Sir Stephen Tallents | No book | No item |
| 16 November 1943 | C. H. Middleton | No book | No item |
| 23 November 1943 | J. B. Morton | No book | No item |
| 31 December 1943 | Charles Hill | No book | No item |

## 1944

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
| 8 January 1944 | Alan Dent | No book | No item |
| 29 January 1944 | Pamela Frankau | No book | No item |
| 12 February 1944 | Ralph Reader | No book | No item |
| 19 February 1944 | Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC | No book | No item |
| 20 March 1944 | Mabel Constanduros | No book | No item |

## 1945

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
| 4 August 1945 | Frederick Grisewood | No book | No item |
| 11 August 1945 | Peter Fettes | No book | No item |
| 18 August 1945 | Jill Balcon | No book | No item |
| 25 August 1945 | Michael Harrison | No book | No item |
| 1 September 1945 | Joan Edgar | No book | No item |
| 8 September 1945 | Roy Williams | No book | No item |
| 15 September 1945 | Alvar Lidell | No book | No item |
| 22 September 1945 | Pat Butler | No book | No item |
| 29 September 1945 | Margaret Hubble | No book | No item |
| 6 October 1945 | Michael Redgrave | No book | No item |
| 13 October 1945 | Claire Luce | No book | No item |
| 20 October 1945 | C. E. M. Joad | No book | No item |
| 27 October 1945 | Celia Johnson | No book | No item |
| 3 November 1945 | Valerie Hobson | No book | No item |
| 10 November 1945 | Bobby Howes | No book | No item |
| 17 November 1945 | Deborah Kerr | No book | No item |
| 24 November 1945 | Henry Wheeler | No book | No item |
| 1 December 1945 | Eileen Joyce | No book | No item |
| 8 December 1945 | Stewart Granger | No book | No item |
| 15 December 1945 | Richard Goolden | No book | No item |
| 22 December 1945 | Nova Pilbeam | No book | No item |
| 29 December 1945 | Sonia Dresdel | No book | No item |

## 1946

| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury |
| 5 January 1946 | Barbara Mullen | No book | No item |