Plomley's broadcasting career was not restricted to "Desert Island Discs"; he also compiled and presented several feature programmes and was the chairman of BBC Radio's game show "Many a Slip" from 1964 to 1979, and a participant in such panel games as "Does the Team Think?", also on BBC Radio. He also anchored "Round Britain Quiz" in 1961. For television he produced "Dinner Date with Death" in 1949, claimed to be the first UK film made for TV, and in the same year chaired "We Beg to Differ" on BBC Radio, transferring with it to BBC Television in 1951.