Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959 podcast

Judy Grinham

3/9/1959

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959

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Roy Plomley's castaway is world champion swimmer Judy Grinham.

Favourite track: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye by Ella Fitzgerald Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: Typewriter and paper

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Judy Grinham

Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959

More episodes from "Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1942-1959"

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Joan Sutherland

Benny Hill

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Dave Brubeck

Sir Leonard Hutton

John Snagge

Lotte Lehmann

Judy Grinham

John Osborne