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.
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vic Oliver | No book | No item | ||
| James Agate | No book | No item | ||
| Commander A B Campbell | No book | No item | ||
| C B Cochran | No book | No item | ||
| Pat Kirkwood | No book | Gardenia bush | ||
| Jack Hylton | No book | No item | ||
| Captain A E Dingle | No book | No item | ||
| Joan Jay | No book | No item | ||
| Reverend Canon W H Elliott | No book | No item | ||
| Arthur Askey | No book | No item | ||
| Eva Turner | No book | No item | ||
| Harry Parry | No book | No item | ||
| Tom Webster | No book | No item | ||
| Ivor Novello | No book | No item | ||
| Roy Plomley | No book | No item | ||
| Beatrice Lillie | No book | No item | ||
| Leslie Howard | No book | No item | ||
| Nathaniel Gubbins | No book | No item | ||
| Barrington Dalby | No book | No item | ||
| Emlyn Williams | No book | No item | ||
| Lord Elton | No book | No item | ||
| Richard Tauber | No book | No item | ||
| Jonah Barrington | No book | No item | ||
| Michael Powell | No book | No item | ||
| Admiral Sir Edward Evans | No book | No item |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald McCullough | No book | No item | ||
| Ian Hay | No book | No item | ||
| Tom Driberg | No book | No item | ||
| Frank Swinnerton | No book | No item | ||
| Beverley Baxter | No book | No item | ||
| Herbert Hodge | No book | No item | ||
| C. A. Lejeune | No book | No item | ||
| Ivor Brown | No book | No item | ||
| Tom Harrisson | No book | No item | ||
| Lady Eleanor Smith | No book | No item | ||
| Sir Stephen Tallents | No book | No item | ||
| C. H. Middleton | No book | No item | ||
| J. B. Morton | No book | No item | ||
| Charles Hill | No book | No item |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Dent | No book | No item | ||
| Pamela Frankau | No book | No item | ||
| Ralph Reader | No book | No item | ||
| Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC | No book | No item | ||
| Mabel Constanduros | No book | No item |
| Date | Castaway | Book | Luxury | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Grisewood | No book | No item | ||
| Peter Fettes | No book | No item | ||
| Jill Balcon | No book | No item | ||
| Michael Harrison | No book | No item | ||
| Joan Edgar | No book | No item | ||
| Roy Williams | No book | No item | ||
| Alvar Lidell | No book | No item | ||
| Pat Butler | No book | No item | ||
| Margaret Hubble | No book | No item | ||
| Michael Redgrave | No book | No item | ||
| Claire Luce | No book | No item | ||
| C. E. M. Joad | No book | No item | ||
| Celia Johnson | No book | No item | ||
| Valerie Hobson | No book | No item | ||
| Bobby Howes | No book | No item | ||
| Deborah Kerr | No book | No item | ||
| Henry Wheeler | No book | No item | ||
| Eileen Joyce | No book | No item | ||
| Stewart Granger | No book | No item | ||
| Richard Goolden | No book | No item | ||
| Nova Pilbeam | No book | No item | ||
| Sonia Dresdel | No book | No item |