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| | 20130101 (BBC7) | Cuba: Carlos Acosta danced from the backstreets of Havana to the Royal Ballet. He shares musical favourites with Sue Lawley. |
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| 19930122 | | |
| 19930124 | | Percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| 19930131 | | |
| 20040418 | 20040423 | Sue Lawley talks to the author Bernard Cornwell. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley talks to the author Bernard Cornwell. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20040606 | 20040611 | Sue Lawley talks to the actress Geraldine James. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun May 30th, 11.15am] |
| 20040806 | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Sister Frances Dominica, founder of the first children's hospice. |
| 20041024 | 20041029 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley's guest this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy Mcnab. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy Mcnab Sue Lawley's guest this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
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| 20041107 | 20041112 | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the four times Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's guest this week is the four times Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's guest this week is the four times Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| 20041205 | 20041210 | Bobby Robson Sue Lawley invites Sir Bobby Robson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
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| 20050213 | 20050218 | Sue Lawley talks to the poet UA Fanthorpe. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley talks to the poet UA Fanthorpe. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20050218 | | Sue Lawley talks to the musician Hugh Masekela. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley talks to the musician Hugh Masekela. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20050313 | 20050318 | Sue Lawley invites the dramatist Stephen Poliakoff to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and author Raymond Briggs to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the dramatist Stephen Poliakoff to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and author Raymond Briggs to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
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| 20050717 | | Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Then News. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20050722 | | Sue Lawley invites writer Josephine Cox to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20051002 | 20051007 | Sue Lawley invites the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20051009 | 20051014 | Sue Lawley invites the film maker and restaurant critic Michael Winner to choose eight records to take to the famous mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the film maker and restaurant critic Michael Winner to choose eight records to take to the famous mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the film maker and restaurant critic Michael Winner to choose eight records to take to the famous mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20051106 | 20051111 | Sue Lawley invites the broadcaster Chris Evans to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the broadcaster Chris Evans to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the broadcaster Chris Evans to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20051120 | 20051125 | Sue Lawley invites the philosopher Mary Midgley to choose eight records to take to a mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the philosopher Mary Midgley to choose eight records to take to a mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the philosopher Mary Midgley to choose eight records to take to a mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20051204 | 20051209 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
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| 20060101 | 20060106 | Sue Lawley invites the athlete Dame Kelly Holmes to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] athlete Dame Kelly Holmes Sue Lawley invites the athlete Dame Kelly Holmes to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060205 | 20060210 | Sue Lawley invites the actor Jeremy Irons to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] actor Jeremy Irons. Sue Lawley invites the actor Jeremy Irons to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060212 | 20060217 | Sue Lawley invites Karen Armstrong, a writer who seeks to explain the world's religions, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites Karen Armstrong, a writer who seeks to explain the world's religions, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites Karen Armstrong, a writer who seeks to explain the world's religions, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060219 | 20060224 | Sue Lawley invites screenwriter Frederic Raphael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites screenwriter Frederic Raphael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites screenwriter Frederic Raphael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060226 | 20060303 | Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060305 | 20060310 | Sue Lawley invites thriller writer Jack Higgins to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites thriller writer Jack Higgins to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites thriller writer Jack Higgins to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060312 | 20060317 | Sue Lawley invites actor Terence Stamp to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites actor Terence Stamp to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites actor Terence Stamp to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060319 | 20060324 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060326 | 20060331 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| 20060507 | 20060512 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060512 | | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060521 | 20060526 | Sue Lawley invites the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the Director General of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the Director General of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060528 | 20060602 | Sue Lawley invites the Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| 20060604 | 20060609 | writer and producer Armando Iannucci Sue Lawley invites the writer and producer Armando Iannucci to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the writer and producer Armando Iannucci to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060611 | 20060616 | Sue Lawley invites the retailer George Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the retailer George Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the retailer George Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060612 | | Sue Lawley invites physicist Peter Mansfield to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 20060618 | | Sue Lawley invites physicist Peter Mansfield to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites physicist Peter Mansfield to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20060625 | 20060630 | Sue Lawley invites the physicist Peter Mansfield. |
| 20060702 | 20060707 | Sue Lawley invites the business leader and group chief executive of BP, Lord Browne, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the business leader and group chief executive of BP, Lord Browne, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the business leader and group chief executive of BP, Lord Browne, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060709 | 20060714 | Sue Lawley invites gardener Monty Don to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Gardener Monty Don Sue Lawley invites gardener Monty Don to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060716 | 20060721 | crime writer Ian Rankin |
| 20060723 | 20060728 | Sue Lawley invites psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal. Sue Lawley invites psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060730 | 20060804 | Sue Lawley invites playwright David Edgar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] playwright David Edgar. Sue Lawley invites playwright David Edgar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060806 | 20060811 | Sue Lawley invites the poet and children's writer Michael Rosen to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] poet and children's writer Michael Rosen Sue Lawley invites the poet and children's writer Michael Rosen to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060813 | 20060818 | Sue Lawley invites the pop music mogul Simon Cowell to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] pop music mogul Simon Cowell Sue Lawley invites pop music mogul Simon Cowell to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20060820 | 20060825 | Sue Lawley invites critic and writer AA Gill to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites critic and writer AA Gill to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites critic and writer AA Gill to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20061008 | 20061013 | Kirsty Young invites actress Jane Horrocks to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Kirsty Young invites actress Jane Horrocks to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites actress Jane Horrocks to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20061015 | 20061020 | foreign correspondent Robert Fisk Kirsty Young invites foreign correspondent Robert Fisk to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20061020 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is foreign correspondent Robert Fisk |
| 20061022 | 20061027 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is children's campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is children's campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| 20061027 | | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is children's campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh. |
| 20061105 | 20061110 | Kirsty Young invites jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15pm] Kirsty Young invites jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061117 | | Lord John Stevens. Kirsty Lang invites Lord John Stevens to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061119 | 20061124 | Kirsty Young's castaway is best-selling novelist Stephen King. Kirsty Young's castaway is best-selling novelist Stephen King. |
| 20061203 | 20061208 | Kirsty Young invites impresario Raymond Gubbay to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Kirsty Young invites impresario Raymond Gubbay to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061217 | 20061222 | Kirsty Young invites playwright Sir Arnold Wesker to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. playwright Sir Arnold Wesker. Kirsty Young invites playwright Sir Arnold Wesker to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061224 | 20061229 | Kirsty Young invites presenter Gloria Hunniford to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. presenter Gloria Hunniford. Kirsty Young invites presenter Gloria Hunniford to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061231 | 20070105 | Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Anthony Horowitz. writer Anthony Horowitz Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Anthony Horowitz. |
| 20070311 | 20070316 | Kirsty Young invites DJ and broadcaster Andy Kershaw to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites DJ and broadcaster Andy Kershaw to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites DJ and broadcaster Andy Kershaw to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070316 | 20070323 | Kirsty Young invites DJ and broadcaster Andy Kershaw to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070318 | 20070323 | Kirsty Young invites comic Jo Brand to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites comic Jo Brand to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070401 | 20070406 | Kirsty Young invites Ben Helfgott, Chair of the '45 Aid Society of Holocaust Survivors, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Ben Helfgott, Chair of the '45 Aid Society of Holocaust Survivors. Kirsty Young invites Ben Helfgott, Chair of the '45 Aid Society of Holocaust Survivors, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070513 | 20070518 | Kirsty Lang talks to actress Joanna Lumley, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Lang talks to actress Joanna Lumley Kirsty Lang talks to actress Joanna Lumley, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070527 | 20070601 | Kirsty Young talks to hypnotist Paul McKenna, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young talks to hypnotist Paul McKenna, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070603 | 20070608 | Kirsty Young talks to scientist Tom Blundell, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young talks to scientist Tom Blundell. Kirsty Young talks to scientist Tom Blundell, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070610 | 20070615 | Kirsty Young talks to Yoko Ono, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young talks to Yoko Ono Kirsty Young talks to Yoko Ono, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070812 | 20070817 | Kirsty Young invites publisher Felix Dennis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. publisher Felix Dennis Followed by News. Kirsty Young invites publisher Felix Dennis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070819 | 20070824 | Kirsty Young invites conductor Vladimir Jurowski to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites conductor Vladimir Jurowski to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News Followed by News |
| 20070930 | 20071005 | Kirsty Young invites George Michael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites George Michael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071007 | 20071012 | Kirsty Young invites Health Secretary Alan Johnson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Health Secretary Alan Johnson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071014 | 20071019 | Kirsty Young invites actress Jill Balcon to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. actress Jill Balcon Followed by News Followed by News |
| 20071021 | 20071026 | Kirsty Young invites comedian Ronnie Corbett |
| 20071028 | 20071102 | Kirsty Young invites Lord Joffe, Nelson Mandela's former lawyer, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Lord Joffe, Nelson Mandela's former lawyer, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071116 | | Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans. Kirsty Young invites Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071118 | 20071123 | Kirsty Young invites former MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites former MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071125 | 20071130 | Kirsty Young invites American author Armistead Maupin to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites American author Armistead Maupin to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News Followed by News |
| 20071202 | 20071207 | Kirsty Young invites cellist Steven Isserlis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites cellist Steven Isserlis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071209 | 20071214 | Kirsty Young invites genetic scientist Alec Jeffreys to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites genetic scientist Alec Jeffreys to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071216 | 20071221 | Kirsty Young invites rock star Paul Weller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites rock star Paul Weller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20071223 | 20071228 | Kirsty Young invites Victoria Wood to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News Followed by News |
| 20071225 | | Kirsty Young invites Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080127 | 20080201 | Kirsty Young invites Lady Spender, former classical pianist and widow of Sir Stephen Spender, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Lady Spender, former classical pianist and widow of Sir Stephen Spender, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20080224 | 20080229 | Kirsty Young invites broadcaster David Dimbleby to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites broadcaster David Dimbleby to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20080302 | 20080307 | Kirsty Young invites singer Michael Ball to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. singer Michael Ball Followed by News. Kirsty Young invites singer Michael Ball to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080309 | 20080314 | Kirsty Young invites actress Liz Smith to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites actress Liz Smith to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20080316 | 20080321 | Kirsty Young invites writer Tariq Ali to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites writer Tariq Ali to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| 20080323 | 20080328 | Kirsty Young invites cartoonist Stanley McMurty to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. cartoonist Stanley McMurty. Followed by News. Kirsty Young invites cartoonist Stanley McMurty to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080518 | | Kirsty Young invites MP Diane Abbott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites MP Diane Abbott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080523 | | Kirsty Young invites MP Diane Abbott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080525 | 20080530 | Kirsty Young invites composer Howard Goodall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites composer Howard Goodall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News Followed by News |
| 20080530 | | Kirsty Young invites composer Howard Goodall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080601 | | Kirsty Young invites former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080606 | | Kirsty Young invites former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080608 | | Kirsty Young invites comedian Bill Bailey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites comedian Bill Bailey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080613 | | Kirsty Young invites comedian Bill Bailey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080620 | | Kirsty Young invites novelist Peter Carey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites novelist Peter Carey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080627 | | Kirsty Young invites pioneering surgeon Ara Darzi to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites pioneering surgeon Ara Darzi to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080629 | | Kirsty Young invites cartoonist Posy Simmonds to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites cartoonist Posy Simmonds to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080704 | | Kirsty Young invites cartoonist Posy Simmonds to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080706 | | Kirsty Young invites cook and food writer Antonio Carluccio to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites cook and food writer Antonio Carluccio to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080711 | | Kirsty Young invites cook and food writer Antonio Carluccio to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080713 | | Kirsty Young invites soprano Felicity Lott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites soprano Felicity Lott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080720 | | Kirsty Young invites designer John Stefanidis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites designer John Stefanidis. |
| 20080727 | | Kirsty Young invites writer Antonia Fraser to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites writer Antonia Fraser to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080801 | | Kirsty Young invites writer Antonia Fraser to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080803 | | Kirsty Young invites satirist and magazine editor Richard Ingrams to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites satirist and magazine editor Richard Ingrams to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080808 | | Kirsty Young invites satirist and magazine editor Richard Ingrams to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080810 | | Kirsty Young invites philosopher AC Grayling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island Kirsty Young invites philosopher AC Grayling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080815 | | Kirsty Young invites philosopher AC Grayling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites philosopher AC Grayling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080817 | | Kirsty Young invites West End star Ruthie Henshall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites West End star Ruthie Henshall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080822 | | Kirsty Young invites West End star Ruthie Henshall to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081003 | | Kirsty Young invites the actress Miriam Margolyes to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081010 | | Kirsty Young invites the opera director David McVicar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081017 | | Kirsty Young invites the actor and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081024 | | Kirsty Young invites the singer-songwriter Randy Newman to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081031 | | Kirsty Young invites the singer Ian Bostridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081107 | | Kirsty Young invites Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081114 | | Kirsty Young invites the children's writer Alan Ahlberg to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the children's writer Alan Ahlberg to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20081121 | | Kirsty Young invites David Davis MP to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20150920 | 20150925 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dame Judi Dench. Born into a family with dramatic leanings, she followed one of her older brothers, Jeffery, to drama school. Having abandoned ideas of becoming a set designer, she made her professional debut as Ophelia at the Old Vic in 1957. An illustrious stage career followed in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet in 1960, in Cabaret in 1968 and as Lady Macbeth for Trevor Nunn in 1976. On TV she found huge success in sitcoms - appearing with her husband, the late Michael Williams, in A Fine Romance and with Geoffrey Palmer in As Time Goes By. She received an Oscar nomination for her first big-screen part as Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown; Shakespeare in Love won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Mrs Henderson Presents, Notes on a Scandal, Iris, and Philomena followed. She played the part of 'M' in the James Bond films seven times and is about to appear as Paulina in Sir Kenneth Branagh's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Married to Michael Williams for 30 years, their daughter, Finty, is also an actress. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Born into a family with dramatic leanings, she followed one of her older brothers, Jeffery, to drama school. Having abandoned ideas of becoming a set designer, she made her professional debut as Ophelia at the Old Vic in 1957. An illustrious stage career followed in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet in 1960, in Cabaret in 1968 and as Lady Macbeth for Trevor Nunn in 1976. On TV she found huge success in sitcoms - appearing with her husband, the late Michael Williams, in A Fine Romance and with Geoffrey Palmer in As Time Goes By.
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| 20210314 | | Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: guests share what they would take to a desert island. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| 20210314 | 20210319 (R4) | Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: guests share what they would take to a desert island. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| 13/06/2010 | 20100618 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner. |
| 30/01/2011 | 20110204 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist Jon Snow. For the past 21 years he's been the face of Channel Four's nightly bulletins where, along with his patent enthusiasm and vigour for dissecting the day's stories, he's noted for his natty line in neckties and socks. He's a highly experienced foreign correspondent too - he's reported from Haiti, New Orleans, Washington and East Africa among many locations. However it was in El Salvador that he found his name on the list of people who might be targeted by death squads. It was, he says, something of a 'badge of honour'. "I cry on location", he says, "and it's a good thing, because otherwise you bottle it up and come home bonkers." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Journalist and TV presenter Jon Snow joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| 75 Years Of Desert Island Discs | 20171231 | | 75 Years of Desert Island Discs - Kirsty Young ends the programme's anniversary year with some gems from the archive, including the creator of the format, Roy Plomley, actress Bebe Daniels, broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, trumpeter Louis Armstrong, politician Dame Barbara Castle and cellist Jacqueline du Pre. Kirsty also chooses some of her favourite moments with Dame Judi Dench, Sir David Attenborough, comedian Sarah Millican, the surgeon David Nott and rugby referee Nigel Owens. Kirsty Young introduces some gems from the archive. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty also chooses some of her favourite moments with Dame Judi Dench, Sir David Attenborough, comedian Sarah Millican, the surgeon David Nott and rugby referee Nigel Owens. |
| A H Halsey | 20040801 | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is academic Professor A H Halsey. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is academic Professor A H Halsey. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Abi Morgan | 20180506 | 20180511 (R4) | Abi Morgan is a screenwriter and playwright best known for TV dramas The Hour, River and The Split and the films Shame, Suffragette and The Iron Lady. She won two Emmy Awards for The Hour, as well as two BAFTAs for Best Single Drama for White Girl and Sex Traffic, and Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Born into a theatrical family - her father was a theatre director, her mother is an actress - she only began to write during her university days at Exeter. After graduating, she kept herself afloat by waitressing while continuing to write and had her first play performed professionally in 1998 when she was 30. She's become known for her gritty storylines in the dramas Murder, Sex Traffic, and Tsunami, but has also adapted several books for both the small and the big screen including Brick Lane, The Invisible Woman, and Birdsong. Abi lives in London with her long-term partner, the actor Jacob Krichefski, and their two teenage children. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Abi Morgan, stage and screenwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Actor Patrick Stewart | 20050417 | 20050422 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is actor Patrick Stewart. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is actor Patrick Stewart. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Actor Richard Griffiths | 20060108 | 20060113 | Sue Lawley invites the actor Richard Griffiths to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the actor Richard Griffiths to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Actress Betsy Blair | 20050612 | 20050617 | Sue Lawley invites the actress Betsy Blair to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the actress Betsy Blair to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Evening |
| Actress Imelda Staunton | 20050515 | 20050520 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is actress Imelda Staunton. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is actress Imelda Staunton. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Evening |
| Ade Adepitan | 20120930 | 20121005 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Paralympian and broadcaster Ade Adepitan. Wheelchair basketball's his sport and this year he partnered Claire Balding anchoring the television coverage of the 2012 London Paralympics. When he's not stuck in a studio explaining the intricacies of Goalball he's reporting from the rainforests of Nicaragua or the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Adversity seems to suit him - he even survived turning up for his first day at school aged 7 in a pink checked suit and bow tie. Inspired by his boyhood heroes Seb Coe and Daley Thompson, who he first saw on TV competing in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, sport became his passion. He says ""I think I've done more things with my disability than most able-bodied people would ever dream of doing"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Ade Adepitan, Paralympian and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the Paralympian & broadcaster Ade Adepitan. Wheelchair basketball's his sport and this year he partnered Claire Balding anchoring the television coverage of the 2012 London Paralympics. |
| Ahdaf Soueif | 20120617 | 20120622 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Egyptian writer and commentator Ahdaf Soueif. She was the first Muslim woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and, from an early age, her life has been divided between Egypt and Britain. She was among the crowds in Tahrir Square last year, witnessing the uprising at first hand, and describing events for the world's media. She says: ""Every once in a while there would be a surge of a few meters forward, as your friends, who were being killed at the front, gained you those three metres and your job, as the masses, was to move forward and hold the three metres." Producer: Leanne Buckle. , Egyptian novelist and cultural commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian novelist and cultural commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Akram Khan | 20120722 | 20120727 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. A child of Bengali immigrants, he started learning Indian dance almost as soon as he could walk. Talent-spotted in his teens, he went on to spend two years touring the world with Peter Brook's Mahabharata. A keen collaborator, he's worked with everyone from prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem to disco queen Kylie Minogue. He says he was a shy boy and dance allowed him to communicate properly for the first time: ""It was like being allowed to speak - and people taking notice of that and that's another problem because then you want people's attention all the time, so, every dinner party we went to, I said, Mum, are they going to ask me to dance? It became an addiction." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Choreographer and dancer Akram Khan is interviewed by Kirsty Young. A child of Bengali immigrants, he started learning Indian dance almost as soon as he could walk. Talent-spotted in his teens, he went on to spend two years touring the world with Peter Brook's Mahabharata. A keen collaborator, he's worked with everyone from prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem to disco queen Kylie Minogue. He says he was a shy boy and dance allowed him to communicate properly for the first time: ""It was like being allowed to speak - and people taking notice of that and that's another problem because then you want people's attention all the time, so, every dinner party we went to, I said, Mum, are they going to ask me to dance? It became an addiction."" |
| Alan Ahlberg | | 20081225 | Kirsty Young invites the children's writer Alan Ahlberg to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the children's writer Alan Ahlberg to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Alan Carr, Comedian | 20181223 | 20181228 (R4) | Alan Carr, comedian and chat show host, is known for his love of silliness, dressing up and camp daftness. His stand-up shows have filled arenas, and on TV he co-hosted the Friday Night Project and then his own show - Chatty Man. Alan was born into a footballing family – his dad, Graham, was a professional player and then a manager. Alan first tried his hand at comedy while reading Theatre Studies at Middlesex University. After he graduated, he took on a range of jobs before his ability to make friends laugh with his stories of working in a call centre in Manchester led him to try stand-up at a local venue. In 2001 he won the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. His break into TV came after a spell as the warm-up man for the Jonathan Ross chat show. He has won many awards including Best Entertainment Show for Alan Carr: Chatty Man at the 2010 TV Choice Awards, the 2013 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and 2013 British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. In 2015 he won the National Television Award for Best Chat Show Host. He and his long term partner Paul were married in January 2018 by Adele - who also organised the wedding, and paid for it. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Alan Carr, comedian, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Comedian Alan Carr is interviewed by Lauren Laverne Alan Carr, comedian, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne |
| Alan Sillitoe | 20090125 | 20090130 | Kirsty Young invites the writer Alan Sillitoe to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the writer Alan Sillitoe to choose eight records. |
| Alan Sillitoe | 20090130 | | Kirsty Young invites the writer Alan Sillitoe to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the writer Alan Sillitoe to choose eight records. |
| Alex Crawford | 20160110 | 20160115 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews journalist Alex Crawford. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Sky TV news correspondent Alex Crawford. She's won the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year award an unprecedented four times - reporting from the world's worst war zones and hot spots. Where most people would do anything to stay well away from trouble she seems drawn to danger , whether it's covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia, hunting for Rhino poachers in South Africa or being first on the scene as the drama of Libya's revolution unfolded. She spent the first five years of her life in Nigeria, where her family survived two political coups. After childhood in Zambia and subsequently what was then Rhodesia, she came back to Britain as a teenager to go to boarding school and then got her first job as a trainee reporter on the Wokingham Times. She's been shot at, arrested and interrogated. But it's a job she loves and is still passionate to do. For her, there should be no 'no-go' areas for journalists and journalism remains an essential pillar of freedom and democracy. Producer: Sarah Taylor. , journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Alex Crawford, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
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| Alex Salmond | 20110116 | 20110121 | , First Minister for Scotland and leader of the SNP joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Alex Salmond, First Minister for Scotland and leader of the SNP joins Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond. He has spent his political life campaigning for Scottish independence. As a schoolboy he stood in classroom elections - back then, he won on the canny ticket of half-days for all and replacing the school milk with ice-cream. He was a child when he realised he had a knack for public performance - he was a boy soprano who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him. He says: "If you can sing in front of thousands of people when you're ten or eleven then being Scottish First Minister is nothing in comparison." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Alex Salmond | 20110121 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond. He has spent his political life campaigning for Scottish independence. As a schoolboy he stood in classroom elections - back then, he won on the canny ticket of half-days for all and replacing the school milk with ice-cream. He was a child when he realised he had a knack for public performance - he was a boy soprano who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him. He says: "If you can sing in front of thousands of people when you're ten or eleven then being Scottish First Minister is nothing in comparison." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Alex Salmond, First Minister for Scotland and leader of the SNP, joins Kirsty Young. |
| Alexandra Shulman | 20130616 | 20130621 | Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Schulman. In spite of being in charge of one of our leading 'style bibles' for more than 20 years, her reputation is that of someone rather down to earth. She thinks designers cut clothes too small, refuses to let superstars have photo and copy approval and when she was first appointed editor, she'd never even been on a fashion shoot. During her tenure Vogue's circulation has increased. Her first job as editor was with the men's magazine GQ and she's had spells at Tatler, the Sunday Telegraph and writing a weekly column for the Daily Mail. She says, ""Vogue is not my personal taste, really. I think of it more as a kind of newspaper, reporting on what's out there." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Alfie Boe | 20110605 | 20110610 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Alfie Boe. He is one of our most popular tenors and, highly unusually, is a sell-out success in both opera houses and musical theatre. The youngest of nine children, he left school to work as a mechanic - before being plucked off the shop-floor for stardom. However, while he's at home on the stage, you won't necessarily find him in the stalls: "I like good singers, I don't necessarily like one genre of music, I just like good singers, good voices and good songs," he says, adding: "I never go to the opera - it's just not my world." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Opera singer Alfie Boe joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. However, while he's at home on the stage, you won't necessarily find him in the stalls: "I like good singers, I don't necessarily like one genre of music, I just like good singers, good voices and good songs," he says, adding: "I never go to the opera... it's just not my world.". He is one of our most popular tenors and, highly unusually, is a sell-out success in both opera houses and musical theatre. The youngest of nine children, he left school to work as a mechanic - before being plucked off the shop-floor for stardom. However, while he's at home on the stage, you won't necessarily find him in the stalls: "I like good singers, I don't necessarily like one genre of music, I just like good singers, good voices and good songs," he says, adding: "I never go to the opera.... it's just not my world." |
| Alfie Boe | 20110610 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Alfie Boe. He is one of our most popular tenors and, highly unusually, is a sell-out success in both opera houses and musical theatre. The youngest of nine children, he left school to work as a mechanic - before being plucked off the shop-floor for stardom. However, while he's at home on the stage, you won't necessarily find him in the stalls: "I like good singers, I don't necessarily like one genre of music, I just like good singers, good voices and good songs," he says, adding: "I never go to the opera... it's just not my world." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Opera singer Alfie Boe joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Alfred Brendel | 20131115 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the classical pianist, Alfred Brendel. A performer of world renown, his career spans seven decades, and he is particularly famous for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. An Austrian who's lived in the UK for many years, he was born in 1931 in what is now the Czech Republic. Although not from a musical family, he began playing the piano aged six and gave his first recital aged 17. Largely self-taught, in addition to his live performances, he's enjoyed a long and successful recording career. Revered for his intellect and individual and original take on the world, he is also a published poet and essayist. He says, ""I regard pessimism as a sign of intelligence. Optimism is a very welcome and life-enhancing feature, a gift, but not necessarily a realistic outlook. I am a pessimist who enjoys being pleasantly surprised." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to pianist Alfred Brendel. |
| Ali Smith | 20161106 | 20161111 (R4) | Ali Smith, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Ali Smith is a Scottish writer. Born in Inverness in 1962, the youngest of five children by seven years, she says, ""I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it." After reading English at Aberdeen and nearly completing a PhD at Cambridge, she started down an academic path, winning a lectureship at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, but she soon decided that academia wasn't for her. She gave herself three years in which to make it as a writer. By then she had moved from writing poems, for which she had discovered an aptitude aged eight, to short stories. Her first collection, Free Love and Other Stories, was published in 1995. Since then she has written novels, including How to Be Both, and The Accidental, as well as plays. Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, her fiction has won numerous literary awards including the Goldsmiths Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Alice Cooper | 20101121 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the rock musician Alice Cooper. As a teenager he says it was British music that he tuned in to - listening to The Beatles, The Yardbirds and The Who. He realised that while rock music had many heroes, there were few villains - that was the territory he marked out for himself. He developed his trademark look - blackened eyes, straggly hair and glamorous clothes - and set about designing live shows that were gleefully gory and macabre. While critics have described him as 'the world's most beloved heavy metal entertainer', it took him a while to untangle himself from his creation. "For a long time I honestly didn't know where I began and Alice ended. My friends at the time were Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and I was trying to keep up with them. And I realised when they all died that you didn't have to be your character off stage.". American rock singer and showman Alice Cooper joins Kirsty Young As a teenager he says it was British music that he tuned in to - listening to The Beatles, The Yardbirds and The Who. He realised that while rock music had many heroes, there were few villains - that was the territory he marked out for himself. He developed his trademark look - blackened eyes, straggly hair and glamorous clothes - and set about designing live shows that were gleefully gory and macabre. While critics have described him as 'the world's most beloved heavy metal entertainer', it took him a while to untangle himself from his creation. "For a long time I honestly didn't know where I began and Alice ended. My friends at the time were Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and I was trying to keep up with them. And I realised when they all died that you didn't have to be your character off stage.". |
| Alice Walker | 20130519 | 20130524 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Alice Walker. Author, poet, feminist and activist, it was her novel The Color Purple that brought her worldwide attention and acclaim. The story of a poor black girl surviving in the deep American south, between the wars, it is a landmark work, disturbing and exhilarating in equal measure. If one subscribes to the idea that ""art is a wound turned to light"", then Alice Walker's early life proved crucial to her future creations. Shot and blinded in one eye by her brother's BB gun it was through the isolation of her injury that she began to write. She once described poetry as ""medicine"". She has also said, ""I know the world's a mess, but there's so much that's gorgeous in it. I wish everybody could have what I have." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Alison Balsom | 20151004 | 20151009 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Alison Balsom. Widely considered the finest classical trumpet player of her generation, she's performed in all the great concert halls of the world, winning a huge amount of fans and a string of awards for her ability to exquisitely convey the many voices of her chosen instrument. As a child she had dreams of being a part-time trumpet player, astronaut and jockey - she's only 36 so there's time yet for the other two; but whilst she is solely devoting her energies to her instrument her belief in the power of music seems endless. In between gigs, rehearsals, recordings and motherhood, she's found time to travel to Uganda and Liberia as patron of Brass for Africa, with the heartfelt conviction that she can transform the lives of street children by teaching them to play. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kirsty Young talks to trumpeter Alison Balsom.
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| Alison Moyet | 20140518 | 20140523 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer, Alison Moyet. She's won three Brit awards, sold tens of millions in record sales and her career has spanned over 30 years. It all kicked off in 1981; just three months after forming her first band ""Yazoo"" she was on Top of The Pops performing her first hit. Given that remarkably smooth start it might be tempting to think her achievements have come easy - they haven't. She found growing up tough, had prolonged agoraphobia and depression and weight problems cast their shadow. Now in her early fifties she says, ""I was always an odd girl, I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
She's won three Brit awards, sold tens of millions in record sales and her career has spanned over 30 years. It all kicked off in 1981; just three months after forming her first band ""Yazoo"" she was on Top of The Pops performing her first hit. |
| Alison Richard | 20050306 | 20050311 | Sue Lawley invites the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Alison Richard to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Alison Richard to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Alison Richard to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Amanda Levete | 20170319 | 20170324 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the architect Amanda Levete. She won the Stirling prize in 1998 for the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground which she designed with then husband, the late Jan Kaplicky. Later this year the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will open her extension, featuring a new entrance, courtyard and gallery. Brought up in Richmond, the oldest of three children, she showed her independent spirit early on, and left school at 16. She discovered architecture while on a Foundation year at art school and was offered a place at the Architectural Association, even though her portfolio didn't feature a single drawing of a building. Since setting up her own practice in 2009, her creative endeavours have included the Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, a retail and hotel complex in Bangkok, and the MPavilion Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne. In 2016 her practice won competitions to transform the Galleries Lafayette building in Paris and create a new mosque in Abu Dhabi. She has also designed furniture, stackable football pitches and set up a pop-up restaurant serving nothing but tinned fish. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Amanda Levete, architect, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Since setting up her own practice in 2009, her creative endeavours have included the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, a retail and hotel complex in Bangkok, and the MPavilion Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne. In 2016 her practice won competitions to transform the Galleries Lafayette building in Paris and create a new mosque in Abu Dhabi. She has also designed furniture, stackable football pitches and set up a pop-up restaurant serving nothing but tinned fish. 
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| Andrea Levy | 20110612 | 20110617 | Novelist Andrea Levy joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Andrea Levy. Born in London to Jamaican parents, she has spent much of her career describing the experiences of Caribbean immigrants and cementing the role they have played in British life. Her books have found both a large and appreciative audience as well as critical success - Small Island was named Whitbread Book of the Year, while Long Song, was shortlisted for the Man-Booker Prize. Her achievements are all the more extraordinary because she says she didn't read her first novel until she was 23 years old. She says: "The reason I write is because I am exploring my heritage - and there's still a lot of that story untold." Record: The theme from Small Island television series Book: Roget's Thesaurus Luxury: Mosquito repellent Producer: Isabel Sargent. |
| Andrea Levy | 20110617 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Andrea Levy. Born in London to Jamaican parents, she has spent much of her career describing the experiences of Caribbean immigrants and cementing the role they have played in British life. Her books have found both a large and appreciative audience as well as critical success - Small Island was named Whitbread Book of the Year, while Long Song, was shortlisted for the Man-Booker Prize. Her achievements are all the more extraordinary because she says she didn't read her first novel until she was 23 years old. She says: "The reason I write is because I am exploring my heritage - and there's still a lot of that story untold." Record: The theme from Small Island television series Book: Roget's Thesaurus Luxury: Mosquito repellent Producer: Isabel Sargent. Novelist Andrea Levy joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Andrew Davies | 20070805 | 20070810 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Andrew Davies. He is the king of television adaptation; Pride and Prejudice, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch and Tipping the Velvet are just a few of the dramas he has brought to our screens. Until he was 50, he was an English lecturer and wrote in his spare time - it was a sort of mid-life crisis that sent his career soaring. Since then, his signature has been stripping down the classics, sexing them up and serving Austen, Eliot and Dickens to appreciative audiences. The trick is to make sure the stories remain relevant to viewers today - and that, he says, is straightforward because the main motivators remain the same - sex, love, money and power. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Hiawatha Rag by Chris Barber Band Box
Book: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Endless supply of Mojitos. Kirsty Young's castaway is screenwriter Andrew Davies. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites screenwriter Andrew Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News Followed by News |
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20070302 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the journalist Andrew Neil. For 11 years he was editor of The Sunday Times. Under him, the paper broke the story of Israel's nuclear capabilities, revealed the Queen's dismay at the tone of Margaret Thatcher's administration and shone a bright light onto the difficulties of Princess Diana and Prince Charles's marriage. But as well as reporting the news, the paper made headlines too - Andrew Neil steered The Sunday Times through its move to Wapping and the bitter and often violent dispute that followed. Much has been made of his rise to be a figure at the heart of the establishment. A grammar school boy who went on to study at Glasgow University, he threw himself into university life; he edited the student newspaper, was a keen young debater and chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students. It seemed as if he was destined for a life in politics - but he decided he wanted to live a little first and then found that while he revelled in the political debate, the life of an MP was not for him. He is now Editor in Chief at Press Holdings and an established and authoritative political broadcaster. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: First Movement of Violin Concerto in D Major by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Book: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Luxury: Wind-up radio. Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil Kirsty Young invites journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Andy Mcnabb | 20050109 | 20050114 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy Mcnab Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Angela Gheorghiu | 20040404 | 20040409 | Sue Lawley talks to the opera singer Angela Gheorghiu. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Angela Hartnett | 20180114 | 20180119 (R4) | Angela Hartnett is a chef, TV presenter and cookery writer. She holds a Michelin star and runs her own restaurants. Angela was born in 1968 to an Italian mother and Irish father, and her culinary career has been influenced by her Italian background and her grandmother's cooking. After studying for a history degree, Angela began work in the catering industry before joining Gordon Ramsay at his restaurant Aubergine. In 2002 she took over at the Connaught, London, as the first woman chef to run its restaurant. When it closed five years later, she moved on to open her own restaurant, Murano, in 2008. She achieved a Michelin star in both establishments and has expanded her restaurant business. She has been a regular contributor on some of TV and radio's most popular cookery programmes. In 2007, she was awarded an MBE for Services to the Hospitality Industry. Angela Hartnett, chef, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. She has been a regular contributor on some of TV and radio's most popular cookery programmes. In 2007, she was awarded an MBE for Services to the Hospitality Industry. |
| Ann Cleeves, Writer | 20190217 | 20190222 (R4) | Ann Cleeves is a crime writer best known for two series of novels, both of which have been adapted for television. Vera, for ITV, features her detective Vera Stanhope, and Shetland, for the BBC, focuses on DI Jimmy Perez, who works for the Shetland police. Born in 1954, Ann grew up in Herefordshire and Devon. After secondary school she spent a year providing childcare for a family in London before reading English at the University of Sussex. She dropped out of her degree course, and by chance, was offered a job as assistant cook at the bird observatory in Fair Isle, despite not knowing how to cook, nor anything about birds. She met her husband Tim there, who came as a visiting bird watcher. They spent four years on the tiny tidal island of Hilbre off the Wirral peninsula, where Ann started to write. Her debut novel was published in 1986 and she has published a book a year since then. Her first Shetland novel, Raven Black, appeared in 2006 and won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, at the time the richest crime-writing prize in the world. Her second breakthrough came when a TV producer picked up a second-hand copy of one her novels featuring her dishevelled detective Vera Stanhope and decided it would make perfect prime-time viewing. In October 2017, Ann received the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association, the highest honour in British crime writing, awarded by fellow crime authors. In 2018, she published the final of eight Shetland novels, and this autumn will see the publication of the first of a new Vera series set in Devon. Her husband Tim died in December 2017. Ann lives in Whitley Bay, with her two daughters and six grandchildren nearby. BOOK CHOICE: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
LUXURY: Pen and paper
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Cathy Drysdale Ann Cleeves, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Ann Daniels | 20070121 | 20070126
20070126 (R4) | polar explorer Ann Daniels. Kirsty Young invites polar explorer Ann Daniels to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Polar explorer Ann Daniels. Before she was 30, she hadn't so much as walked with a rucksack and had no experience of navigating with a compass. Then her husband saw a newspaper advert seeking ordinary women to join an all-women relay to the North Pole. Ann was successful and since then she has walked to both Poles, become a Polar guide and now has her sights set on being the first British woman to walk solo to the North Pole - an endeavour she'll attempt for the second time this March. While she is on her expeditions, the life she leaves behind is also far from routine - she is a mother to four children including triplets. She has met some criticism for leaving her children for long periods, but she responds by saying that they are her inspiration - she wants to demonstrate to them how to live life to the full. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics
Book: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Luxury: A bar of soap Kirsty Young's castaway is explorer Ann Daniels Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Anna Del Conte | 20101119 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the cookery writer Anna Del Conte. Born to a wealthy Milanese family, she arrived in Britain in 1949 where her Italian ingenuity with food was sorely needed in a nation still facing rationing and no olive oil. Her books, starting with Portrait of Pasta in 1976, helped to change all that, and established her as a food hero for younger cooks like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. She has still more to teach however: whatever you do, she says, you shouldn't serve bolognese with spaghetti as it's just the wrong shape. Tagliatelle is much better. Italian cookery writer Anna Del Conte joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Born to a wealthy Milanese family, she arrived in Britain in 1949 where her Italian ingenuity with food was sorely needed in a nation still facing rationing and no olive oil. Her books, starting with Portrait of Pasta in 1976, helped to change all that, and established her as a food hero for younger cooks like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. She has still more to teach however: whatever you do, she says, you shouldn't serve bolognese with spaghetti as it's just the wrong shape. Tagliatelle is much better. |
| Anna Ford | 20120318 | 20120323 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Anna Ford. One of the first high profile women in news, she worked for Granada, ITV and the BBC before retiring after more than thirty years on our screens. One of her professional pairings was presenting the News at 10 with Reginald Bosanquet, she remembers how he would try to unsettle her during broadcasts: "I adored Reggie, he would land either obscene poems or love poems on my script just before I was to about to read it to camera and I would catch just a sight of this and it was almost impossible not to laugh." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Journalist Anna Ford is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| Anna Ford | 20120323 | | Journalist Anna Ford is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Anna Pavord | 20171117 | | Writer and gardener Anna Pavord is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Anna Scher | 20111118 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the drama teacher Anna Scher. It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a few. It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very quickly grew. Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance. I found that it was a very effective way of character training." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Theatre School founder Anna Scher is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. It's more than forty years since she set up her theatre school and it has launched the careers of Kathy Burke, Martin Kemp, Pauline Quirke and Patsy Palmer to name just a few. It started out as a lunchtime drama club - and very quickly grew. Anna Scher says: "There were enormous classes - about seventy in a class - and a lot of those pupils were non-readers and so I fell into improvisation by chance. I found that it was a very effective way of character training." |
| Anne Enright, Writer | 20200126 | 20200131 (R4) | Anne Enright won the Booker Prize for her fourth novel, The Gathering, in 2007, and was appointed the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction in 2015. She has written seven novels, two collections of short stories and a book of essays about motherhood and her work has been widely translated. Born in Dublin in 1962, Anne is the youngest of five children. She was a voracious reader from an early age, finishing every children's book at her local library. When she was 16, she won a scholarship to study at a school in Canada, and then returned to Ireland for a degree in English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. After taking an MA in Creative Writing at University of East Anglia, with teaching from Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury, she worked for six years as a TV producer for the Irish broadcaster RTE. When her TV work left her feeling burned out, she began her writing career in earnest. Her book of short stories, The Portable Virgin, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1991, and she published her first novel, The Wig My Father Wore, in 1995. Her latest novel, The Actress, is published in February 2020. She is also now a Professor at University College Dublin and teaches creative writing. She met her theatre director husband, Martin Murphy, at university and they have two children. DISC ONE: Brahms Intermezzos: Op. 117, No.1 by Glenn Gould
DISC TWO: Jersey Girl by Tom Waits
DISC THREE: A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
DISC FOUR: Then You’ll Remember Me by Dé Danann
DISC FIVE: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash
DISC SIX: Hiawatha by Laurie Anderson
DISC SEVEN: Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen
DISC EIGHT: Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan Tutte, composed by Mozart, conducted by Karl Böhm, performed by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Walter Berry, Christa Ludwig and Philharmonia Orchestra. BOOK CHOICE: 'In Search of Lost Time’ by Marcel Proust
LUXURY ITEM: High thread-count cotton sheets
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan Tutte, composed by Mozart Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Anne Enright, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Anne Enright, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. |
| Anne Reid | 20140713 | 20140718 | Kirsty Young interviews actress Anne Reid. 
Actress Anne Reid is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. For a long time the bedrock of Anne Reid's successful career seemed to be her perfectly nuanced portrayal of a variety of northern mums - what she calls ""skirt and jumper roles"". Her first major role was playing Valerie Tatlock in Coronation Street - her character's funeral was watched by millions. In 2003 the skirt and the jumper came off when she and Daniel Craig starred in the highly acclaimed movie The Mother, about a frumpy looking woman in her late 60s who passionately seduces her daughter's boyfriend. Anne Reid has appeared in Victoria Wood's comedy series Dinnerladies and is currently playing Celia in BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax about two widowed septuagenarians finding love again. She says, ""...inner talent gives you that ease. It's not a remarkable thing - just a knack that gives you a very nice life." Producer: Paula McGinley. |
| Anne Scott James | 20041010 | 20041015 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is journalist and writer Anne Scott James. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is journalist and writer Anne Scott James. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is journalist and writer Anne Scott James. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Anne Wood | 20111002 | 20111007 | Children's TV producer Anne Wood is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Children's TV producer Anne Wood joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's TV producer Anne Wood. Her creations - which include Teletubbies, Rosie and Jim and In the Night Garden - have delighted millions of children around the world. She says she is driven by her fascination with children's creative development - and was horrified by the critical response when Teletubbies was first screened. "I wanted to make a programme that had love in it," she says, "You'd have thought I'd started World War Three the response that happened - it's innocent fun, that's all it is." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Anne Wood | 20111007 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's TV producer Anne Wood. Her creations - which include Teletubbies, Rosie and Jim and In the Night Garden - have delighted millions of children around the world. She says she is driven by her fascination with children's creative development - and was horrified by the critical response when Teletubbies was first screened. "I wanted to make a programme that had love in it," she says, "You'd have thought I'd started World War Three the response that happened - it's innocent fun, that's all it is." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Children's TV producer Anne Wood is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Anne-marie Duff | 20180325 | 20180330 (R4) | Anne-Marie Duff is a stage and screen actor. Born in 1970 to Irish parents, she grew up in a working class household in west London. A shy child and a voracious reader, she took acting classes from the age of 11, but failed to get into drama school on her first attempt. Her second application to the Drama Centre in London was successful and she's barely been out of work since. She started off on stage, but gained more widespread recognition when she took the role of Fiona Gallagher in Shameless, the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy drama. She has since played dozens of roles, both in the theatre and on screen, which range from Queen Elizabeth I to John Lennon's mother, from a penniless suffragette to a retired police officer with skeletons in the cupboard, and from Joan of Arc to Lady Macbeth on Broadway and at the National Theatre. Her performances have been described as having a "multi-faceted, diamond-hard intensity". Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Anne-Marie Duff, actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Annie Lennox | 20080511 | 20080516 | Kirsty Young invites singer Annie Lennox to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites singer Annie Lennox to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| Annie Nightingale, Dj | 20200719 | 20200724 (R4) | Annie Nightingale was BBC Radio 1’s first female presenter and is its longest-serving DJ, celebrating her 50th anniversary at the station this year. Born and brought up in south west London, she fell in love with the romance and mystery of radio through her father’s meticulous tuning of their home set to broadcasts from exotic places like Prague and Hilversum. On leaving school at 17, she spent a year on a journalism course in central London. After relocating to Brighton, she worked her way up through local newspapers to the national press and magazines and eventually, by the mid-1960s, to TV. She interviewed the Beatles as a young journalist, and gave early support to artists including David Bowie, Ian Dury, Eminem and Primal Scream. In 1970, she was the first woman DJ to join Radio 1 with a Sunday evening show. From 1978 to 1982, Annie was the sole female presenter on the BBC TV music show The Old Grey Whistle Test, the only woman to have held the job. Her excitement for new music and musical genres from acid house to grime, hasn’t wavered. She currently hosts a weekly Radio 1 show called Annie Nightingale Presents… (on air on Wednesdays between 1 and 3 am) and has received countless awards from Caner of the Year to Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which she received this year for services to radio. Annie has a son and a daughter from her first marriage. She is twice divorced and lives in London. DISC ONE: Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish
DISC TWO: Some People by Ethel Merman
DISC THREE: Instant Karma! by John Lennon
DISC FOUR: Too Many Fish in the Sea by Marvelettes
DISC FIVE: Space Oddity by David Bowie
DISC SIX: Freedom by Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
DISC SEVEN: Gymnopédies No. 1, composed by Erik Satie, conducted by Peter Breiner, performed by Gerald Garcia (guitar) and Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice
DISC EIGHT: My Way by Sid Vicious BOOK CHOICE: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
LUXURY ITEM: A saxophone
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Space Oddity by David Bowie Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Annie Nightingale, DJ, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Ant And Dec | 20131229 | 20140103 | Kirsty Young's castaways are the TV presenters Ant and Dec - Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. The kings of Saturday night prime time, their careers and firm friendship spans twenty-odd years beginning as child actors on Byker Grove and currently hosting Britain's Got Talent, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and their eponymously named Saturday Night Take Away. Their specialty is what are known in the business as ""shiny floor shows"" - programmes that involve big budgets, big audiences and, frequently, big egos. Yet their partnership exists well beyond the four walls of a TV studio. As 13 year olds they bonded over a mutual appreciation of Newcastle United FC and Wham: they pledged themselves to be best buddies forever and now live just a few doors down from each other. When Ant got married Dec was best man. They say, ""without doubt, the best thing to come out of the last twenty years, the greatest thing we've ever achieved, our biggest success, has been our friendship. And nothing will ever change that." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Kirsty Young's castaways are the TV presenters Ant & Dec - Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. |
| Anthony Julius | 20091113 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the lawyer and writer Anthony Julius. He was already renowned in legal circles when, in 1996, he moved into the public arena, representing Princess Diana in her divorce. He became her confidante and, after her death, one of the founders of her memorial fund. Of the high profile cases he has fought, he says. 'You're on a higher wire, stared at by a larger number of people, but in the end, the only audience that matters is your own client.'. Kirsty Young's castaway is lawyer and writer Anthony Julius. He was already renowned in legal circles when, in 1996, he moved into the public arena, representing Princess Diana in her divorce. He became her confidante and, after her death, one of the founders of her memorial fund. Of the high profile cases he has fought, he says. 'You're on a higher wire, stared at by a larger number of people, but in the end, the only audience that matters is your own client.'. ![]()
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| Antonio Pappano | 20040425 | 20040430 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is pianist and conductor Antonio Pappano. |
| Anya Hindmarch | 20121230 | | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer and businesswoman, Anya Hindmarch. Given her first Gucci handbag by her mother at 16, she knew that her future lay in fashion. At 18 she went to Florence to immerse herself in Italian style, and ended up deep in the world of Florentine leather, getting samples made up of a duffel bag she'd spotted. An initial run of 500 bags sold out. Fast forward 25 years and her eponymous fashion business is globally successful with her designs much sought after. She's also known for her conscience and designed a canvas tote called ""I am not a bag"" as part of an environmental campaign to highlight our over use of plastic bags. She combines all this with a hectic family life. She met and subsequently married a widower 12 years her senior when she was 25. He had 3 children aged under 5 and they've added a further two to the clan. She says her life is like ""juggling and dancing while having one arm and one eye at the same time"". Producer: Alison Hughes. |
| Ara Darzi | 20080622 | | Kirsty Young invites pioneering surgeon Ara Darzi to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Arlene Phillips | 20090628 | 20090703 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the choreographer, Arlene Phillips. In a career spanning 40 years she set up the dance group Hot Gossip and has masterminded numerous music videos and West End shows. already one of the country's leading choreographers, the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing then turned her into a household name. In a career spanning 40 years she set up the dance group Hot Gossip and has masterminded numerous music videos and West End shows. Already one of the country's leading choreographers, the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing then turned her into a household name. |
| Arlene Phillips | 20090703 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the choreographer, Arlene Phillips. Kirsty Young's castaway is the choreographer, Arlene Phillips. |
| Arse8ne Wenger, Former Football Manager | 20201122 | 20201127 (R4) | Arsène Wenger was manager of Arsenal FC for 22 years, becoming the longest-serving and most successful manager in the club’s history. He was born in Strasbourg in 1949 and grew up as the youngest of three children in the nearby village of Duttlenheim, where his parents ran a bistro. There he listened in to the daily conversations about football, which preoccupied the men of the village. After playing for his local team and studying for a degree in economics, Arsène made a career as a footballer in France for a decade, before moving into management. He coached in France, Monaco and Japan before joining Arsenal in 1996. At that point he was a complete unknown in English football, but soon proved his doubters wrong. He took a declining mid-table side to Premier League glory within two years, going on to win two further Premierships and a record number of FA Cups. In 2003-4 his so-called Invincibles achieved a record-breaking run of 49 matches without defeat. He also won a reputation as an innovator, changing his players’ diets and contributing to the globalisation of soccer by signing overseas players and scouting young talent from across the world. He was instrumental in building a new home for Arsenal, when the club moved from Highbury to the brand new Emirates Stadium Arsène retired from Arsenal in 2018 and took up a post as FIFA’s head of Global Football Development the following year. He is separated from his partner Annie Brosterhous. They have one grown-up daughter, Léa. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Ars\u00e8ne Wenger, Arsenal manager for 22 years, shares the soundtrack of his life. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: guests share what they would take to a desert island. |
| Arthur Edwards | 20110925 | 20110930 | Royal photographer Arthur Edwards joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the royal photographer Arthur Edwards. He is a Fleet Street legend and, for more than thirty years, has captured the most memorable moments of the House of Windsor - from the first tentative pictures of a teenage Lady Diana Spencer to the balcony kiss at the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. He's travelled the world, met the Pope and seen inside the Oval Office and the Kremlin - it's a life far removed from his early life in the East End of London where money was very tight and his mother saved up her wages as a cleaner to buy him his first camera. Record: Panis Angelicus Book: A photographic album with pictures of his family Luxury: An inexhaustible supply of tea and a kettle Producer: Leanne Buckle. Royal photographer Arthur Edwards is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Arthur Edwards | 20110930 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the royal photographer Arthur Edwards. He is a Fleet Street legend and, for more than thirty years, has captured the most memorable moments of the House of Windsor - from the first tentative pictures of a teenage Lady Diana Spencer to the balcony kiss at the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. He's travelled the world, met the Pope and seen inside the Oval Office and the Kremlin - it's a life far removed from his early life in the East End of London where money was very tight and his mother saved up her wages as a cleaner to buy him his first camera. Record: Panis Angelicus Book: A photographic album with pictures of his family Luxury: An inexhaustible supply of tea and a kettle Producer: Leanne Buckle. Royal photographer Arthur Edwards is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Record: Panis Angelicus Book: A photographic album with pictures of his family |
| Artist Maggi Hambling | 20051218 | 20051223 | Sue Lawley invites artist Maggi Hambling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites artist Maggi Hambling to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Arundhati Roy | 20170326 | 20170331 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, Arundhati Roy. She won the Booker Prize for her first novel, The God Of Small Things, which has been translated into 40 languages and became the best-selling book ever by a non-expatriate Indian. After a gap of 20 years, her second novel will be published in June. Brought up in Kerala, her Syrian Christian mother left her marriage when her children were young and set up a small school where Arundhati and her brother were educated. Raised to be independent, aged 16, Arundhati left home to study architecture in Delhi before being introduced to the film world by her second husband. Since the publication of The God of Small Things in 1997, she has continued to write non-fiction, using her influence her to focus on tackling injustice. She has campaigned against India's nuclear programme, dam-building, globalisation, religious intolerance and the inequality of Indian society. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Arundhati Roy, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
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| Asif Kapadia, Film Director | 20191201 | 20191206 (R4) | Asif Kapadia is an Academy Award-winning film director, renowned for his documentaries about the musician Amy Winehouse, the Brazilian motor racing star Ayrton Senna, and the Argentinian footballer, Diego Maradona. Born in 1972, Asif is the youngest of five children. His parents emigrated from Gujarat in the mid-1960s. His father’s ambition to seek his fortune took the family to the US for a short time in the late 70s, but by 1980 they had returned to London. Asif grew up in Hackney, and describes his all-boys secondary school as tough. His mother was ill while he was taking his GCSEs, and he vowed never to sit exams again. At 17, he worked as a runner on a film and so enjoyed feeling part of a crew that he decided he wanted to make a career in the industry. He studied film at the Newport Film School, going on to the Polytechnic of Central London where his graduation film, Indian Tales, was highly regarded. His 1997 Royal College of Art graduation film, The Sheep Thief, shot in Rajasthan in the Hindi language, won a prize at Cannes. He made two feature films, The Warrior which won two Baftas, and Far North, which was filmed close to the North Pole. His first documentary was Senna, which was widely acclaimed and won two Baftas. Asif used the same collage technique - drawing on camcorder snippets, TV news, and entertainment specials – on Amy, his film about Amy Winehouse. It won an Oscar, a Bafta and a Grammy Award and surpassed Senna to become the highest grossing documentary of all time in the UK. His latest documentary is about the footballer Diego Maradona: he calls it “the third part of a trilogy about child geniuses and fame”. Asif is married to Victoria Harwood with whom he has two sons. DISC ONE: Tears Dry On Their Own by Amy Winehouse
DISC TWO: Good Times by Chic
DISC THREE: Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein by Lata Mangeshka And Mukesh
DISC FOUR: Rebel Without a Pause by Public Enemy
DISC FIVE: No Good (Start The Dance) by The Prodigy
DISC SIX: Man With A Harmonica by Orchestra Ennio Morricone
DISC SEVEN: A Morte by Antônio Pinto
DISC EIGHT: Just by Radiohead BOOK CHOICE: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
LUXURY ITEM: A polaroid camera with film from the seventies
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Man With A Harmonica by Orchestra Ennio Morricone Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Asif Kapadia, film director, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Athene Donald | 20090322 | 20090327 | Kirsty Young invites scientist Athene Donald to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites scientist Athene Donald to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites scientist Athene Donald to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites scientist Athene Donald to choose eight records. |
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| Atul Gawande | 20151206 | 20151211 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, author and former Reith lecturer, Atul Gawande. A general and endocrine surgeon in Boston, he is professor in both the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Born in Brooklyn, he is the son of two doctors who came to the US to study medicine. After graduating from Stanford and studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, he embarked on a brief political career, working for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and on his health and social policy in the White House following his election. When Clinton's health policy reform floundered, Atul returned to Harvard to finish the medical degree he'd started after Oxford. During his surgical residency he began writing for the online magazine Slate and he's been writing for the New Yorker since 1998. His 2009 article ""The Cost Conundrum"" was cited by President Barack Obama during his attempt to get the healthcare reform legislation through Congress. Atul has published four books to date about the achievements, but also the limitations, of medicine. In 2014 he presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, delivering a series of four talks titled The Future of Medicine. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Atul Gawande, surgeon and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
A general and endocrine surgeon in Boston, he is professor in both the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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| Aung San Suu Kyi | 20130127 | 20130201 | Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's opposition leader, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Aung San Suu Kyi. The programme was recorded on location in Naypyitaw, Burma in December 2012. Now Leader of Burma's opposition party, she has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights and democracy in her homeland. A figure of world renown, she is known in Burma as simply ""The Lady"" and her integrity, determination and grace have provided a beacon of hope to a nation oppressed and exploited by decades of brutal military dictatorship. President Obama says she is an ""icon of democracy"" and Desmond Tutu calls her ""a remarkable woman... ready to work for the healing of her motherland"". Her renown has come at significant personal sacrifice: she endured nearly 20 years of house arrest and persecution, exiled from her children and apart from her British husband who died from cancer in 1999. She says ""It takes courage to feel the truth, to feel one's conscience because once you do, you must engage your fundamental purpose for being alive. You can't just expect to sit idly by and have freedom handed to you." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
, Burma's opposition leader, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Aung San Suu Kyi. The programme was recorded on location in Naypyitaw, Burma in December 2012. |
| Baaba Maal | 20090315 | 20090320 | Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Senegalese musician Baaba Maal to choose eight records. |
| Barbara Hulanicki | 20131208 | 20131213 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Barbara Hulanicki, designer and creator of Biba. Today her creativity spans fashion, illustration, interior design and architecture but it was the success of the label Biba that first made her name; launching a high street revolution with its opulent-looking but entirely affordable high fashion. According to Twiggy, ""she changed fashion in England singlehandedly"". A newspaper advert for a £3 pink gingham dress in 1963 kicked things off and by the seventies her London department store was a throbbing temple to all things skinny-fitted in plum, mulberry, green, brown and black. Romantic, mysterious, nostalgic and very profitable. But when it all turned sour with her business partners, she and her husband Fitz walked away, leaving behind the hugely popular creation that had made her name. The fantasy and perfection of her creations were a far cry from the harsh reality of her childhood; born in Poland just before the Second World War, the air of privilege that surrounded her family was traumatically punctured when her father, a diplomat, was assassinated. She says ""Now whenever I finish something I take some photographs and say 'goodbye'. When you lose everything, you realise that the only thing you have is what's in your head." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Barbara Hulanicki, designer and creator of Biba, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Barbara Taylor Bradford | 20030706 | 20030711 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the popular novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford. Born in Upper Armley, Leeds, by the age of 16 Barbara had graduated from the typing pool and was a cub reporter in the newsroom of the Yorkshire Evening Post. By twenty she was Fashion Editor of Woman's Own in London. In 1976, after a number of failed attempts, she sold her first novel to a publisher on the basis of a ten-page outline. That book A Woman of Substance, has gone on to sell in the region of 20 million copies. The heroine, Emma Harte, inspired such a following that she and her dynasty were the subjects of two further books and despite Emma being 'killed off' in the second, Taylor Bradford has resurrected her for a 'lost years' prequel this summer. Emma's Secret will be her 19th novel, with 10 of them made into TV films. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Vissi d'Arte by Giacomo Puccini
Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Luxury: Bag of eye make-up, especially mascara Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Baroness Arminka Heli\u0107 | 20191013 | 20191018 (R4) | Baroness Arminka Helić is credited with persuading William Hague, the former foreign secretary, and the actor and director Angelina Jolie to launch the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) to campaign against rape as a weapon of war. Born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Arminka fled her home country as violence escalated in the former Yugoslavia and her family appeared on a Serbian death list. Following the intervention of Lady Miloska Nott, wife of the former secretary of state for defence Sir John Nott, she arrived in London as a refugee in October 1992. She completed a master’s degree in international history at the LSE which ignited her interest in politics. Her first Westminster job was filing press cuttings in the House of Commons Library where she was spotted and started working for MPs including Robert Key, Liam Fox and William Hague. When William Hague became foreign secretary in 2010, she joined him as a special adviser and made it her mission to bring compassion and humanity to foreign policy. After watching Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey, the story of an inter-ethnic love affair set against the backdrop of the war in Bosnia, Arminka persuaded the foreign secretary to join forces with the Hollywood star. The PSVI highlights how sexual violence in conflict zones is often a hidden crime in which the perpetrators go unpunished. In 2014 the PSVI held a global summit in London which brought together activists and policy-makers with the aim of recognizing this crime and bringing about successful prosecutions. In the same year, Arminka Helić entered the House of Lords as a Conservative Life Peer. DISC ONE: Tereza Kesovija - Prijatelji Stari Gdje Ste
DISC TWO: Kim Wilde - Cambodia
DISC THREE: Zaim Imamović - Kraj Tanana Šadrvana
DISC FOUR: Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
DISC FIVE: Bijelo Dugme - Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo
DISC SIX: Madonna - True Blue
DISC SEVEN: Vivaldi - Concerto in F minor, RV 297 “Winter”, 1st movement by performed by The English Concert
DISC EIGHT: Josipa Lisac - O jednoj mladosti BOOK CHOICE: A DIY book
LUXURY ITEM: A pen and paper
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Kraj Tanana Šadrvana by Zaim Imamović Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley Baroness Arminka Heli\u0107 shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Baroness Campbell | 20120805 | 20120810 | Disability campaigner Baroness Campbell is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell. She was born with a degenerative condition and her parents were told she would not survive infancy. Now in her mid-fifties and a cross-bench peer, she's spent her adult life campaigning for equality for disabled people and was one of the leading voices behind the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. She recalls: ""I found myself sitting in the middle of Westminster Bridge bringing the traffic to a standstill. The police didn't know what to do with us - whether to pat us on the head or, you know, put handcuffs on us. They were quite confused." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Baroness Floella Benjamin, Dbe | 20201011 | 20201016 (R4) | Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE is a Trinidadian-British broadcaster, writer and politician. She became a familiar face to millions of viewers through her work on children's television, most notably on Play School, which she first presented in 1976. She was born in Trinidad in 1949, the second of six children. When her parents emigrated to the UK, she and her siblings were initially left behind with foster parents. After 16 months, the family was able to reunite, when the children travelled to England by sea. At first they all lived in one room in south London. Eventually her parents were able to buy a house in Beckenham, where they lived for 40 years - which is why Floella decided on the title Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham when she entered the House of Lords in 2010 as a Liberal Democrat peer. There was no hint of her later high public profile when she left school at 16 to work in a bank, until she dared to audition for a West End musical during her lunch break. She was successful, going on to appear in numerous London shows, before her move into television. Along with her work in front of the camera, she set up her own TV production company, as well as publishing books and working closely with charities for children and young people. She has also campaigned for high standards in children's broadcasting and more diversity in the creative industries. She was the Chancellor of Exeter University for a decade, starting in 2006, and earlier this year she received a Damehood for her services to charity. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Baroness Haleh Afshar | 20081228 | | Kirsty Young invites the academic Baroness Haleh Afshar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the academic Baroness Haleh Afshar to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the academic Baroness Haleh Afshar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
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| Baroness Hollins | 20120513 | 20120518 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Baroness Sheila Hollins. An Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, she has specialised in the health and welfare of people with learning disabilities; advising on policy and influencing attitudes. She started off as a GP, turning to psychiatry after finding a huge proportion of her patients were suffering from emotional and social problems. One of her four children has a learning disability and that has brought a focus to her professional ambitions. She says: ""In many ways, I've always thought that our children are going to be different to any expectation we had of them and really the joy of parenthood is discovering who your children really are." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young interviews Baroness Hollins, professor of psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London. Kirsty Young's castaway is Baroness Sheila Hollins. |
| Baroness Newlove | 20180722 | 20180727 (R4) | Baroness Newlove is the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales. She became a campaigner after her husband, Garry Newlove, was murdered by several youths in 2007. Born in Salford in 1961 she grew up in a working class family. Having left school at sixteen she became a copy typist at a magistrate's court and later a committal court assistant. She met Garry when she was 20 and they married and had two daughters. In 1992, when he was just 32, Garry was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He survived and the couple went on to have a third daughter. The family lived in an area of Warrington which was experiencing an increase in anti-social behaviour. In August 2007, Garry went outside to investigate a disturbance and was viciously attacked by some youths in front of his three daughters. Three days later, the decision was taken to switch off his life support. Three youths were subsequently found guilty of Garry's murder and in the wake of the family's experience, Helen set up an initiative called Newlove Warrington to provide support to the young people in the area. She was given a peerage in 2010 and sits on the Conservative benches. She took up various roles in support of victims in the House of Lords, culminating in her appointment as Victims' Commissioner, a post she took up in 2013. She is currently in her second term and will be serving in the post until 2019. Helen remarried in 2012. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Baroness Newlove is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Baroness Scotland | 20091206 | 20091211 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. ![]()
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| Baroness Scotland | 20091211 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. |
| Barrie Rutter | 20160619 | | Kirsty Young interviews actor and theatre director Barrie Rutter. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and theatre director Barrie Rutter. He is the founder and artistic director of the touring theatre company Northern Broadsides. There was nothing in his background to suggest he'd spend his life on stage. He was brought up by his father, who worked nights unloading fish in Hull. There were no books in his childhood home and he discovered his passion for theatre whilst at secondary school with the help of his English teacher who spotted his talent for performing. His first role was as the Mayor in Gogol's, 'The Government Inspector'. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre where he appeared with Helen Mirren and went on to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. After a career in the National Theatre and the RSC, in 1992 he founded Northern Broadsides which stages Shakespeare plays, other classical works and new writing with the aim of presenting ""Northern voices, doing classical work in non-velvet spaces"". Producer: Sarah Taylor. Barrie Rutter, actor and theatre director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
He is the founder and artistic director of the touring theatre company Northern Broadsides. There was nothing in his background to suggest he'd spend his life on stage. He was brought up by his father, who worked nights unloading fish in Hull. There were no books in his childhood home and he discovered his passion for theatre whilst at secondary school with the help of his English teacher who spotted his talent for performing. His first role was as the Mayor in Gogol's, 'The Government Inspector'. |
| Barry Humphries | 20090524 | 20090529 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. Off stage, though, his life has been spent immersed in literature, music and the arts, and he says that his time spent on the desert island would allow him to devote himself to painting. Kirsty Young invites entertainer Barry Humphries to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites entertainer Barry Humphries to choose eight records. Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. For decades he has enjoyed global fame with his grotesque comic creations, the Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the drunken cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. Kirsty Young invites entertainer Barry Humphries to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites entertainer Barry Humphries to choose eight records. |
| Barry Humphries | 20090529 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. |
| Barry Manilow | 20090927 | 20091002 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow. He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30 years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it was never the career he intended to have. He always knew he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always scarce and family life often difficult - but when there was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home was a happy one. Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30 years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it was never the career he intended to have. He always knew he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always scarce and family life often difficult - but when there was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home was a happy one. ![]()
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| Barry Manilow | 20091002 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. |
| Bear Grylls | 20111127 | 20111202 | Kirsty Young talks to adventurer Bear Grylls. Kirsty Young's castaway is the adventurer Bear Grylls. His first career was with the SAS, but he was forced to leave after a parachute jump went wrong and he broke his back in three places. As he recuperated, he rekindled his childhood ambition of climbing Mount Everest - he went on to become the youngest Briton to reach its summit. His TV series, Born Survivor, has a global audience of more than a billion people who regularly watch him eating the apparently indigestible and risking his life by pitting himself against nature. Married with three young sons, he says: "The unresolved struggle in my life is the fact that I have a job that has an element of danger to it and at the same time I have a gorgeous family - three young boys that are the pride of my life." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Bear Grylls | 20111202 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the adventurer Bear Grylls. His first career was with the SAS, but he was forced to leave after a parachute jump went wrong and he broke his back in three places. As he recuperated, he rekindled his childhood ambition of climbing Mount Everest - he went on to become the youngest Briton to reach its summit. His TV series, Born Survivor, has a global audience of more than a billion people who regularly watch him eating the apparently indigestible and risking his life by pitting himself against nature. Married with three young sons, he says: "The unresolved struggle in my life is the fact that I have a job that has an element of danger to it and at the same time I have a gorgeous family - three young boys that are the pride of my life." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young talks to adventurer Bear Grylls. |
| Ben Saunders | 20160214 | 20160219 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to polar explorer Ben Saunders. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the polar adventurer Ben Saunders. In his own words he ""specialises in dragging heavy things around cold places"". He's one of only three people to have skied solo to The North Pole and he holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey ever on foot. After traversing Russia and the frozen crust of the Arctic Ocean, his most recent adventure was to triumph where, a century before, Captain Scott and his men failed. Ben successfully retraced that ill-fated Terra Nova route by making the eighteen hundred mile journey through Antarctica-and-back, entirely on foot. When he's not wrapped up somewhere cold, he is a motivational speaker. Producer: Sarah Taylor. When he's not wrapped up somewhere cold, he is an ultra-marathon runner and motivational speaker. 
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| Bernard Cornwell | 20040411 | 20040418 | Sue Lawley talks to the author Bernard Cornwell. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley talks to the Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo |
| Bernard Cornwell | 20050220 | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is best-selling author Bernard Cornwell. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is best-selling author Bernard Cornwell. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Bernardine Evaristo, Writer | 20200920 | 20200925 (R4) | Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for her novel, Girl, Woman, Other. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London. Bernardine was born in May 1959, the fourth of eight children, to an English mother and a Nigerian father. She grew up in Woolwich in south London, and was educated at Eltham Hill Girls’ Grammar School. She spent her teenage years at the Greenwich Young People’s Theatre and, after deciding that she wanted to be a professional actor at the age of 14, did a Community Theatre Arts course at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. After graduation she founded the Theatre of Black Women with two fellow students in the early 1980s and they began to write roles for themselves. By the late 1980s, she had decided that it was the writing she enjoyed most. Her first poetry collection was published in 1994, followed by a semi-autobiographical verse novel called Lara three years later. More books followed, experimenting with form and narrative perspective, often merging the past with the present, prose with poetry, the factual with the speculative, and reality with alternate realities. Girl, Woman, Other is her eighth book. A longstanding activist and advocate, Bernardine has initiated several successful schemes to ensure increased representation of artists and writers of colour in the creative industries. She is married to David, who she met in 2006, and lives in London. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Bernardine Evaristo, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Berry Gordy | 20160522 | 20160527 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews Berry Gordy, record producer and creator of the Motown label. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the producer Berry Gordy. He founded the Motown record label and his musical empire made worldwide stars of Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. The second youngest of eight children, he was brought up in Detroit. He left school at sixteen to become a Featherweight boxer, and served as a soldier in the Korean war before making music his career. His first foray into the music business was a jazz record store in Detroit but he was out of step with popular taste and he became bankrupt. It was whilst working on a a car production line that he came up with the idea of setting up a record label. The combination of his song-writing skills and entrepreneurial spirit took Motown music to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and to the centre of American culture during a pivotal moment in America's civil rights history. He was friends with Dr Martin Luther King and recorded some of his speeches on the Motown label. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
He founded the Motown record label and his musical empire made worldwide stars of Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. He founded the Motown record label and his musical empire made worldwide stars of Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. It was whilst working on a a car production line that he came up with the idea of setting up a record label. The combination of his song-writing skills and entrepreneurial spirit took Motown music to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and to the centre of American culture during a pivotal moment in America's civil rights history. He was friends with Dr Martin Luther King and recorded some of his speeches on the Motown label.
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20080208 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Dame Beryl Bainbridge. She grew up in Liverpool - in a home filled with acrimony and argument - and started writing when she was still a child. Her only ambition, she says, was to get married and have a 'proper' family, but when her first two children were still young, her marriage broke down and she turned to writing once again. She believes she finds inspiration from the trouble and friction of everyday life and that if her marriage hadn't failed, she would have been too happy to write another word. Now she is one of our most respected authors. She has written 17 novels and countless articles, screenplays and television plays. She's won armfuls of awards too - but, despite being shortlisted five times, she's never won the Booker prize. She doesn't mind not winning, she says, but she would like to be the writer who has had the most nominations. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Can I Forget You? by Richard Tauber
Book: The Case Books by John Hunter
Luxury: Pens and Paper. Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Beryl Bainbridge. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites author Beryl Bainbridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites author Beryl Bainbridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| Beryl Vertue | 20130120 | 20130125 | TV producer Beryl Vertue is Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs. In the famously fickle world of telly where last year's hero is this year's zero she has stood the test of time. Indeed in TV circles the noun ""vertuosity"" is defined as ""the ability to make enormously successful sitcoms for British television and then sell the formats to the American market"". The cast list of her working life is a who's who of quality broadcasting and includes Jack Lemmon, Galton and Simpson, Frankie Howerd, Jack Nicholson and most recently Benedict Cumberbatch. She started out typing Goon Show scripts in the mid 50s, accidentally became an agent, and as a producer she has risen to the very top of her industry, with hits including the rock musical Tommy, the sit-com Men Behaving Badly and the drama series Sherlock. She says ""it's terribly important not to know too many rules. If you know rules and obstacles you spend a lot of time dealing with them. If you don't know there's a rule you just do it." Producer: Alison Hughes. 
The cast list of her working life is a who's who of quality broadcasting and includes Jack Lemmon, Galton & Simpson, Frankie Howerd, Jack Nicholson and most recently Benedict Cumberbatch. TV producer Beryl Vertue is Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs. The cast list of her working life is a who's who of quality broadcasting and includes Jack Lemmon, Galton & Simpson, Frankie Howerd, Jack Nicholson and most recently Benedict Cumberbatch. The cast list of her working life is a who's who of quality broadcasting and includes Jack Lemmon, Galton and Simpson, Frankie Howerd, Jack Nicholson and most recently Benedict Cumberbatch. |
| Betty Driver | 20110123 | 20110128 | , veteran Coronation Street actress, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Betty Driver, veteran Corrie actress, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran Coronation Street actress Betty Driver. For more than 40 years she's been pulling pints and dishing up her hot pot in the Rovers Return. But her career in showbusiness started decades before she took up residence on Britain's most famous street. She was a child when her mother put her on the stage and she toured the country with an act that showcased her stunning singing voice - it brought success but not happiness. "I did it for over 20 years," she says, "and hated every day of it." Although she has been working now for an incredible 80 years, she says: "I just love work and I will never retire. They'll have to shoot me to get rid of me!" Producer: Leanne Buckle. Betty Driver, veteran Coronation Street actress, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Betty Driver, veteran Coronation Street actress, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Betty Driver, veteran Corrie actress, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs |
| Biddy Baxter | 20140601 | 20140606 | Biddy Baxter, former Blue Peter editor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the TV producer and former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter. In charge of Blue Peter for 23 highly successful years, she was responsible for the coveted Blue Peter badges, the multi-million pound charity fundraising appeals and a nationwide lust for something called sticky-backed plastic. Her masterstroke was getting the young audience involved; although the programme's weekly postbag of around seven thousand letters must have given her a few headaches. In spite of some early careers advice that, ""no one from Durham has ever got into the BBC"", her determination to make a career in broadcasting won out and across the decades her steely reputation kept the show at the top of the ratings and steered it through quite a few mishaps and the odd spot of 'scandal'. She says simply, ""It was an exercise in trying to make children feel as if they belonged."". |
| Bill Cullen | 20031019 | 20031024 (R4) | This week, Sue Lawley's castaway is the Irish businessman and writer Bill Cullen. He was one of 14 children born to William Cullen and Mary Darcy. His childhood, in the tenement slums of inner-city Dublin was one of extreme poverty. Born during the war, the family lived in a one-room dilapidated tenement. Learning the secrets of street trading from his mother and grandmother, Bill started selling from market stalls from the age of five. He sold everything from fruit to evening papers home-fashioned Judy Garland dolls to paper flowers. He eventually started working in a car dealership and went on to own Renault Ireland. He is now a millionaire many times over. He puts his success down to sheer hard work and the support and determination of a close knit family. He has written about his life and says his autobiography, It's A Long Way From Penny Apples, is a tribute to the strong women of Ireland - like his own mother - who held families together through thick and thin. Royalties from the book have been given to the charity of which he is a director, The Irish Youth Foundation. In the past 17 years he has raised £20 million through his charitable work. He is now working on his second book Streetwise, which will impart the business knowledge he has gained over the years. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: New York, New York by Frank Sinatra
Book: Glimpses by Brendan Kennelly
Luxury: An accordion Sue Lawley's castaway is businessman Bill Cullen Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Bill Gates | 20160131 | 20160205 (R4) | Bill Gates, entrepreneur and philanthropist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is Bill Gates. He sat at his first computer while still at school in Seattle, wrote his first computer programme aged just 13 and went on to co-found the company Microsoft, becoming one of the key figures of the technological revolution. In 2000, he and his wife, Melinda, launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has given to date over $34 billion to projects aimed at reducing health inequality around the world. Born into a professional family - his father was a lawyer, his mother a former teacher who later became involved with volunteer work - he was introduced to the idea of 'giving back' at an early age. An avid reader as a child, he attended Harvard where in his sophomore year he and Paul Allen developed software for the first micro-computers. The company would go on to achieve huge success with its Windows operating system. By 1987, Gates had become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, then worth $1.25 billion. Consistently listed as the Richest Man in the World, he stepped down as CEO of the company in 2000 although he remained as Chairman until 2014. These days his primary focus is his philanthropy. In 2010, Gates and his friend Warren Buffett announced the Giving Pledge which aims to inspire the wealthy people of the world to give away the majority of their net worth to worthy causes. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Bill Gates, entrepreneur and philanthropist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is Bill Gates. Born into a professional family - his father was a lawyer, his mother a former teacher who later became involved with volunteer work - he was introduced to the idea of 'giving back' at an early age. An avid reader as a child, he attended Harvard where in his sophomore year he and Paul Allen developed software for the first micro-computers. The company would go on to achieve huge success with its Windows operating system. Born into a professional family - his father was a lawyer, his mother a former teacher who later became involved with volunteer work - he was introduced to the idea of 'giving back' at an early age. An avid reader as a child, he attended Harvard where in his sophomore year he and Paul Allen developed software for the first micro-computers. The company would go on to achieve huge success with its Windows operating system. By 1987, Gates had become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, then worth $1.25 billion. Consistently listed as the Richest Man in the World, he stepped down as CEO of the company in 2000 although he remained as Chairman until 2014.
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| Bill Nighy | 20040314 | 20040319 | Sue Lawley's castaway is the award winning actor Bill Nighy. Originally from Caterham in Surrey, Bill Nighy left school at fifteen without any qualifications and ended up working at his local employment office. He hoped to become an author and began work on 'The Field' magazine as a messenger boy but then ran way to PARIS at seventeen to write a novel. This venture failed and he ended up begging on the streets before returning to Britain and the Guildford School of Drama and Dance. His first film role was as a delivery boy in Joan Collins' steamy film The Bitch, he's featured in numerous stage, TV, and radio dramas including the acclaimed Men's Room in 1991 and more recently in State of Play where he played a newspaper editor. His career has been described by some critics as a slow burn rather than a beacon although he's now widely recognised as achieving the acclaim he deserves. In February he won Best Supporting Actor at the Baftas for his role as Billy Mack - a washed up singer in the film Love Actually. |
| Billie Jean King | 20180715 | 20180720 (R4) | Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slams and a total of 20 Wimbledon titles and is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Born in California in 1943, she was the eldest daughter of Bill and Betty Moffitt. She discovered tennis at the age of ten: at 15 she won in her age bracket at the Southern California championships, and in 1961, she won the women's doubles at Wimbledon with Karen Hantze, the youngest pair to achieve such a victory. In 1968, when professional competitors were admitted to Grand Slam tournaments, she won Wimbledon for the third time and was paid just £750 while Rod Laver, the Men's champion, took home £2,000. So began her campaign for gender equality, which involved boycotting tournaments and setting up their own professional women's circuit. In 1973, then aged 29, she beat the 55-year-old former tennis champion Bobby Riggs in a match which became known as 'The Battle of the Sexes': it remains the most-watched tennis match ever. That year the US Open awarded the same financial reward to men and women and in 2007 Wimbledon followed suit. Billie Jean also founded the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation in the 1970s. She married her husband, Larry, in 1965 but by the late 1960s, she had realised that she was gay. She was outed by a former lover who sued her for palimony in 1981, and although she won the case, she lost almost all her commercial endorsements. She has been with her partner, Ilana Kloss, for nearly 40 years and retired from singles matches in 1983 and doubles in 1990. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2009 and has continued to be an ambassador for her sport and for gender equality. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Billie Jean King is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Bishop John Sentamu | 20030622 | 20030627 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is The Bishop of Birmingham, John Sentamu. When John Sentamu was born, the sixth of 13 children, near Kampala in Uganda in 1949, he was so small the local bishop was called in to baptise him immediately. He survived his birth, a sickly childhood and a famine to become, a mere 25 years later, a judge in the Uganda High Court. In 1974 he managed to get a visa to leave Uganda and come to Britain where he studied theology with a view to returning to the Ugandan justice system at the end of his studies. However, when his friend the Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered he vowed "You kill my friend, I take his place", and he was ordained in 1979. He served in parishes in Cambridge and London, and was vicar of Holy Trinity Church in South London for 13 years during which time he raised £1.6 million to restore his church and its organ as well as increasing his congregation tenfold. He is now the Bishop of Birmingham, and one of only two senior bishops from ethnic minorities. He was an advisor to the Stephen Lawrence Judicial Inquiry and the Chairman of the Damilola Taylor Review board. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: I Was Glad by Sir Hubert Parry
Book: The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
Luxury: A kitchen Sue Lawley's castaway is Bishop of Birmingham Bishop John Sentamu Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Blanche Marvin | 20121116 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the critic, actress, and producer Blanche Marvin. Blanche has been immersed in the theatre for seven decades. She worked with James Mason, Yul Bryner, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov and calmed the nerves of Tennessee Williams. She brought Samuel Beckett to an American audience and persuaded Peter Brook to launch a series of awards to encourage artistic risk-takers. A doyenne of the West End, she's at nearly every opening night and her reviews are read by producers on Broadway - looking for the next hit that could cross the Atlantic. She says: ""people say, how can you go to the theatre for 50 years and still be enthusiastic? Every time I go, I think, Oh, I'm going to see something, I'm going to be surprised!" Producer: Isabel Sargent. Kirsty Young talks to theatre critic Blanche Marvin. |
| Bob Harris | 20140202 | 20140207 | Kirsty Young talks to broadcaster Bob Harris. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster, Bob Harris. Known affectionately as Whispering Bob, he's rarely been off our air waves in the past 44 years. His big break came standing in for John Peel and he was so good that not long after he was given his own show on Radio 1. Throughout the seventies he also hosted the true music-fans' must see show, The Old Grey Whistle Test. His beard and tank top were almost as legendary as some of the guests - The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and John Lennon were among the line up. However with the arrival of punk things got personal. The closest his family ever got to showbiz was when his dad, a policeman, clambered on stage to arrest the singer PJ Proby when his trousers split. Young Bob did follow his dad into the force but music and above all else radio were his obsession. Much like his recording heroes, his own life has something of the rock n' roll vibe - three wives, eight children, a spell of bankruptcy and coping with prostate cancer. Yet through it all his skill, knowledge and love of broadcasting has always endured. He says, ""I'm a music anorak, a fan who got lucky... from the moment I bought my first record aged 11, I couldn't wait to share music with others." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Bob Mortimer, Comedian | 20190203 | 20190208 (R4) | Bob Mortimer is a comedian best known for his work with his comedy partner Vic Reeves.
For 30 years, he and Vic have appeared in numerous TV series together, including Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out, Shooting Stars and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Bob first saw Vic performing in a south London pub: Vic was wearing a Bryan Ferry mask while trying to tap dance with wooden planks strapped to his feet. Bob found this hugely entertaining, and began to take part in Vic’s shows.
Bob was born in 1959 in Middlesbrough, the youngest of four boys. His father died in a car crash when he was seven and Bob says he became his mother’s little helper – although he also set fire to their house after playing with fireworks. As a teenager he dreamed of a career as a footballer, but he ended up studying law at university, and worked as a solicitor in south London.
In 2015 Bob underwent triple heart bypass surgery. After this – in a rare diversion from working with Vic – he accepted an invitation from fellow comedian Paul Whitehouse to get out of the house and go fishing, which led to a successful TV series, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. BOOK CHOICE: My Secret History by Paul Theroux
LUXURY ITEM: His own pillow
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Down to You by Joni Mitchell Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Comedian Bob Mortimer chooses the eight tracks he would take to a desert island. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. , chooses the eight tracks he'd take to a desert island |
| Boris Johnson | 20051030 | 20051104 | Sue Lawley invites the journalist and MP Boris Johnson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the journalist and MP Boris Johnson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Brenda Blethyn | 20050918 | 20050923 | Sue Lawley invites the actress Brenda Blethyn to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Brenda Blethyn is one of our most versatile actresses with film credits that include Secrets and Lies, Little Voice and, now, Pride and Prejudice, and has won a host of awards for her film and stage work. She fell into acting by default born Brenda Bottle, the youngest of nine children, she had no burning desire to take to the stage. She was working as a secretary for British Rail when a friend had to pull out of an am-dram production and Brenda stood in as a favour. She discovered she loved it and went on to become the first actress to rise through the ranks of the National Theatre to play leading roles. She came to the nation's attention in 1996 playing the careworn Cynthia Purley in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, which she won a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA for. Although Secrets and Lies got American studio bosses calling, Brenda had already had a distinguished career in theatre, film and television spanning 25 years at the point she came to be seen as one to watch. Brenda was awarded an OBE in 2003, and lives in London and Broadstairs with her longterm partner Michael Mayhew, a theatre designer. Sue Lawley invites the actress Brenda Blethyn to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Brenda Blethyn is one of our most versatile actresses with film credits that include Secrets and Lies, Little Voice and, now, Pride and Prejudice, and has won a host of awards for her film and stage work. She fell into acting by default born Brenda Bottle, the youngest of nine children, she had no burning desire to take to the stage. She was working as a secretary for British Rail when a friend had to pull out of an am-dram production and Brenda stood in as a favour. She discovered she loved it and went on to become the first actress to rise through the ranks of the National Theatre to play leading roles. She came to the nation's attention in 1996 playing the careworn Cynthia Purley in Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, which she won a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA for. Although Secrets and Lies got American studio bosses calling, Brenda had already had a distinguished career in theatre, film and television spanning 25 years at the point she came to be seen as one to watch. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the actress Brenda Blethyn to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Brian Aldiss | 20070128 | 20070202
20070202 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Brian Aldiss. He is best known for pioneering, alongside JG Ballard, a new wave of British science fiction writing in the 1960s. He says science fiction is not so much a prediction of the future as a metaphor for the human condition; and for him, at least, writing it offered an escape route and a filter through which to view his own extraordinary upbringing. He grew up in a small Norfolk village in a very devout and austere home. While his father was distant, his mother was still suffering from the grief after her first child, a daughter, was still-born. He was the second child and even when he was very small, remembers feeling a strong sense of his mother's disappointment in him. The army finally offered a way out for him and it was on his return to England that he started writing seriously while also working in a bookshop. One of his early works was a short story describing the sadness felt by a boy who was never able to please his parents, which was turned into a film by Stanley Kubrick. While he remains best known for his science fiction writing - and has won every major award in the field - he has also written novels, poetry and biographies and short stories. Now, he says, he aims not for high sales but to become a better and better writer. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Old Rivers (with the Johnny Mann Singers) by Walter Brennan
Book: Biography of John Osborne by John Halpern
Luxury: A banjo Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Brian Aldiss Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites writer Brian Aldiss to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. writer Brian Aldiss Kirsty Young invites writer Brian Aldiss to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Brian Cox, Actor | 20200329 | 20200403 (R4) | Brian Cox CBE is a Scottish actor whose career spans almost 60 years, from his early days sweeping the stage at his local theatre in Dundee to his current Golden Globe-winning role as the media patriarch Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession. He has appeared in more than 100 films, many television series, and has won two Olivier awards for his work on stage. Brian Cox was born in 1946, the youngest of five children, and grew up in a working-class household in Dundee. His father died of cancer when he was eight and his mother, who was receiving regular psychiatric treatment, was unable to take care of him. He moved in with his sister Betty and her family. He left school aged 14 with no qualifications, and started out as a stage hand and stage cleaner at Dundee Rep, before winning a place at drama school. Years of theatre work followed, alongside actors such as Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Albert Finney. His later stage roles include acclaimed performances as King Lear at the National Theatre, and Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On film, his work includes the first screen portrayal of Hannibal Lecter - renamed Lecktor - in Manhunter, and blockbusters such as The Bourne Identity, X-Men 2, Braveheart and Troy. He received a CBE in 2002, and lives in New York City with his second wife Nicole Ansari. DISC ONE: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Johnny Cash
DISC TWO: Saturday Night at the Movies by The Drifters
DISC THREE: The Air That I Breathe by KD Lang
DISC FOUR: Get Back by The Beatles
DISC FIVE: La quête by Jacques Brel
DISC SIX: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
DISC SEVEN: God Only Knows by The Beach Boys
DISC EIGHT: Don’t Get Me Wrong by The Pretenders BOOK CHOICE: In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky
LUXURY ITEM: A sewing kit
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: God Only Knows by The Beach Boys Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Brian Cox, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life. With Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Brian Moore | 20120226 | 20120302 | Brian Moore, former rugby international and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the former rugby player and commentator Brian Moore. As a player he was ferociously competitive, he says his approach to the game was almost pathological and it earned him the nickname 'the pitbull'. By the time he retired, he'd earned dozens of England caps and played in three grand slams. But he discovered the obsessive determination he'd shown as a player was not so useful off the pitch. "In sport, the 'I won't give up', 'carry on training' and 'going again and again and again', that's rewarded because people say isn't that fantastic - but when it comes to normal life, you can't solve everything like that." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Brian Moore | 20120302 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the former rugby player and commentator Brian Moore. As a player he was ferociously competitive, he says his approach to the game was almost pathological and it earned him the nickname 'the pitbull'. By the time he retired, he'd earned dozens of England caps and played in three grand slams. But he discovered the obsessive determination he'd shown as a player was not so useful off the pitch. "In sport, the 'I won't give up', 'carry on training' and 'going again and again and again', that's rewarded because people say isn't that fantastic - but when it comes to normal life, you can't solve everything like that." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Brian Moore, former rugby international and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Bruce Springsteen | 20161218 | 20161223 (R4) | Bruce Springsteen is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Bruce Springsteen. His career has brought him 20 Grammys, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award and his albums sell in their millions around the world. He grew up in New Jersey where the Catholic church played a central role in his early life. The family teetered on the brink of poverty, and his first guitar was rented, rather than bought. He spent his apprentice years as a musician and singer with local bands before landing a record deal in 1972. When 'Born to Run' was released in 1975 it turned him into a household name. His first Top Ten single was 'Hungry Heart', ahead of his most successful album 'Born in the USA' which was released in 1984. In spite of having long transcended the environment he grew up in, Springsteen has remained a chronicler of blue-collar lives. His records are frequently a political commentary on the struggles of ordinary Americans. In the Nineties he settled into family life with his wife Patti Scialfa who sings with his E Street Band. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. In spite of having long transcended the environment he grew up in, Springsteen has remained a chronicler of blue-collar lives. His records are frequently a political commentary on the struggles of ordinary Americans. In the Nineties he settled into family life with his wife Patti Scialfa who sings with his E Street Band.
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| Bruno Tonioli | 20171224 | 20171229 (R4) | Bruno Tonioli, dancer, choreographer and a judge on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, is Kirsty's guest.
He was brought up in Ferrara, Northern Italy, and was the only child of hard-working parents who hoped he would be an accountant. Bruno wanted to pursue a creative career and joined a raunchy cabaret dance troupe when he was a teenager, and performed across Europe. He went on to train in other areas of dance and choreography and spent the 1980s working on pop videos with The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bananarama, Boy George, George Michael, Duran Duran and many more.
Since 2004, Bruno has been a judge on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing and is a judge on the American version of the programme, Dancing with the Stars. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Bruno Tonioli, Strictly judge, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Bryan Stevenson | 20150308 | 20150313 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to US lawyer Bryan Stevenson. 
Kirsty Young's guest this week is Bryan Stevenson. An American lawyer, he is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, not-for-profit organisation working on death penalty cases, cases of children sentenced as adults, prison and sentencing reform, and issues of race and poverty. His great grandparents were slaves and he himself went to a segregated school in southern Delaware. Although from a poor African American background he made it to Harvard Law School. Since then he has secured relief for over a hundred prisoners sentenced to death. He has argued in front of the Supreme Court six times and won landmark rulings about the sentencing of children for both homicide and non-homicide offences. His TED talk from March 2012 has been viewed over two million times. Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
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| Bryn Terfel | 20030921 | 20030926 (R4) | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. Still only in his thirties he's sung at the world's biggest opera houses and can pick and choose where he works and the productions he wants to star in. He began singing in his first competitions at the age of three. Born into a farming family in the tiny village of Pentglas in North Wales which has only a handful of houses, one shop and one church. He was brought up singing at Chapel and regularly competed and won the National Eistedfodd cultural event. His first language was Welsh and as a young child he had to communicate with ENGLISH children camping on his parents land in the summer holidays with sign language. It was from those children he eventually learnt the language and by watching television. As a teenager he considered being a fireman or a policeman but he won a scholarship to the Guildhall in LONDON and the rest his history. Since then he's performed and recorded all the great operatic works as well as a number of 'cross over' cds of hits from musicals and also an album in Welsh. This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. Still only in his 30s, he's sung at the world's biggest opera houses and can pick and choose where he works and the productions he wants to star in. He began singing in his first competitions at the age of three. Born into a farming family in the tiny village of Pentglas in North Wales which has only a handful of houses, one shop and one church, he was brought up singing at Chapel and regularly competed and won the National Eistedfodd cultural event. His first language was Welsh and as a young child he had to communicate with English children camping on his parents land in the summer holidays with sign language. It was from those children he eventually learnt the language and by watching television. As a teenager, he considered being a fireman or a policeman, but he won a scholarship to the Guildhall in London and the rest is history. Since then, he's performed and recorded all the great operatic works as well as a number of 'cross-over' CDs of hits from musicals and also an album in Welsh. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Return to Sender by Elvis Presley
Book: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Luxury: Millenium Centre in Cardiff Sue Lawley's castaway is bass-baritone singer Bryn Terfel Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Caitlin Moran | 20170122 | 20170127 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Caitlin Moran. A columnist for The Times newspaper for 25 years, she's published five books and co-wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves. The eldest of eight children, and raised on benefits on a council estate in Wolverhampton, she was taken out of school by her parents aged eleven and educated herself at the library and by watching television, reading all the classics and learning from popular culture. She started writing early and after winning several writing competitions, her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, was published when she was just sixteen. She became a music journalist for Melody Maker and, not long after that, started writing regular columns for The Times covering everything from politics and feminism to musings on her own background. She is currently finishing her sixth book and writing several film scripts. She has been married to the music journalist Peter Paphides since 1999 and they have two daughters. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to columnist and author Caitlin Moran. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
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| Captain Eric 'winkle' Brown | 20141114 | 20141225 (R4) | Kirsty Young's guest is former Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - the programme's 3000th edition. The Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot, his life reads like a handbook in beating the odds. Landing on a flight deck is acknowledged as one of the most difficult things a pilot can do. Eric Brown has held the world record for the most flight deck landings - 2,407 - for over 65 years. He was one of only two men on his ship, HMS Audacity, to survive a German U-boat bombing. In a long and remarkable life he has witnessed first-hand momentous events in world history, from the Berlin Olympics in 1936 to the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. Flying, he believes, is in his blood. He originally climbed into the open cockpit of a Gloster Gauntlet as a child to sit on his father's knee. Thirty years later he would pilot Britain's first ever supersonic flight. He says: ""It's an exhilarating world to live in. There's always that aura of risk - you come to value life in a slightly different way." Producer: Paula McGinley. Producer: Paula McGinley. |
| Caroline, Countess Of Cranbrook | 20090531 | 20090605 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. Caroline has travelled the world to see how different zoos worked, spent years living in the jungle and, when she returned to Britain, taught herself how to be a farmer. She has become a champion of the countryside and, when a supermarket giant announced plans to open a store on her doorstep, she decided to take them on. Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. Kirsty Young's castaway is the rural campaigner Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. |
| Caroline, Countess Of Cranbrook | 20090605 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the rural campaigner Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. Kirsty Young's castaway is the rural campaigner Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. |
| Carolyn Mccall | 20131006 | 20131011 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is businesswoman Carolyn McCall. Currently Chief Executive of easyJet, she's one of only three women in Britain in charge of a FTSE 100 company. Prior to that she ran the Guardian Media Group. An only child, she was brought up in Bangalore and Singapore. She spent a short time as a teacher in a comprehensive school and has also brought her wisdom to the boardroom table at Lloyds Bank, Tesco and New Look. In amongst the corporate strategizing she also managed to have three children in three years. She says, ""I think it's mad not to have self-doubt... but I think it's really dangerous when that self-doubt becomes total insecurity or lack of confidence or lack of momentum, or lack of belief in yourself." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Carolyn McCall, businesswoman and CEO of easyJet, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Cath Kidston | 20110424 | 20110429 | Designer Cath Kidston joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. Cheerful and practical, her products nod towards the 1950s. She began with ironing board covers but these days you can listen to a radio decorated with one of her designs, pitch one of her tents or decorate the children's bedroom with her cowboy wallpaper. In her own room as a child she used to play at keeping shop. These days her business has a turnover of more than £50 million. "I really felt, from very, very early on, I was onto something with the notion of what I was doing," she says. "I remember feeling I'd really overstepped the mark when I opened my second shop - thinking, that's probably going a stage too far." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Cheerful and practical, her products nod towards the 1950s. She began with ironing board covers but these days you can listen to a radio decorated with one of her designs, pitch one of her tents or decorate the children's bedroom with her cowboy wallpaper. In her own room as a child she used to play at keeping shop. These days her business has a turnover of more than £50 million. "I really felt, from very, very early on, I was onto something with the notion of what I was doing," she says. "I remember feeling I'd really overstepped the mark when I opened my second shop - thinking, that's probably going a stage too far." Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. Designer Cath Kidston joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Cath Kidston | 20110429 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. Cheerful and practical, her products nod towards the 1950s. She began with ironing board covers but these days you can listen to a radio decorated with one of her designs, pitch one of her tents or decorate the children's bedroom with her cowboy wallpaper. In her own room as a child she used to play at keeping shop. These days her business has a turnover of more than £50 million. "I really felt, from very, very early on, I was onto something with the notion of what I was doing," she says. "I remember feeling I'd really overstepped the mark when I opened my second shop - thinking, that's probably going a stage too far." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Designer Cath Kidston joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Celia Birtwell | 20121007 | 20121012 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Celia Birtwell. In the ephemeral world of fashion she has endured; Marian Faithfull wore her creations in the 60s, Kate Moss is a fan today. Whimsical prints and flattering forms are her signature style and the vintage creations that she designed with her then husband Ossie Clarke now change hands for a small fortune. Her new ranges are highly collectable and fly off the high street rails too. Never one of the fashion world's flamboyant self promoters she has, none the less, a face known to millions - as a long time friend and muse to David Hockney she is the woman at the centre of his famous painting ""Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy"". She wants her work to be relevant because and says ""there's nothing worse than being out-dated. If that happens and I feel I'm past it, I'll stop"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Fashion designer Celia Birtwell is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| Celia Imrie | 20110213 | 20110218
20110218 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress Celia Imrie. Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile actresses, she's worked in television, theatre and films over the past four decades. While she's taken roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films, it's her instinct for TV comedy - working alongside Victoria Wood and Julie Walters - that has made her a household name. Audiences loved the spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques and she won an Olivier Award for her role in the stage production. In the early days, though, she remembers the camera crews were unsure what was going on. "I do remember the cameramen watching what had been a very slick show up until Acorn Antiques and then just thinking, 'Why is this bit so bad? Why is the scenery swaying in the background?'" Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actress Celia Imrie joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile actresses she's worked in television, theatre and films over the past four decades. While she's taken roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films, it's her instinct for TV comedy - working alongside Victoria Wood and Julie Walters - that has made her a household name. Audiences loved the spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques and she won an Olivier Award for her role in the stage production. In the early days, though, she remembers the camera crews were unsure what was going on. ""I do remember the cameramen watching what had been a very slick show up until Acorn Antiques and then just thinking, 'Why is this bit so bad? Why is the scenery swaying in the background?'" Record: Tiptoe Through the Tulips Book: The Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Luxury: A cut glass crystal chandelier with candles 
Audiences loved the spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques and she won an Olivier Award for her role in the stage production. In the early days, though, she remembers the camera crews were unsure what was going on. "I do remember the cameramen watching what had been a very slick show up until Acorn Antiques and then just thinking, 'Why is this bit so bad? Why is the scenery swaying in the background?'" Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile actresses she's worked in television, theatre and films over the past four decades. While she's taken roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films, it's her instinct for TV comedy - working alongside Victoria Wood and Julie Walters - that has made her a household name. Record: Tiptoe Through the Tulips Book: The Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |
| Celia Imrie | 20110218 | | Actress Celia Imrie joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Charles Hazlewood, Conductor | 20200524 | 20200529 (R4) | Charles Hazlewood, conductor, shares the soundtrack of his life. With Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Charles Hazlewood is a conductor and the founder of Paraorchestra, the world's first professional ensemble of disabled musicians. Once described as the Heston Blumenthal of orchestral music, Charles has spent his career challenging Britain’s musical palate, exploding boundaries and expanding our ideas about what an orchestra can be - and do. His repertoire encompasses Beethoven, Bruckner and Barry White, and his critically-acclaimed projects include more than 100 world premieres and the first orchestral headline performance at Glastonbury. Paraorchestra, the ensemble he established in 2011, reached a global audience at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Paralympics. He also co-founded an opera company in South Africa, and its production of Carmen, with a mainly black cast, won international acclaim. He studied music at Keble College, Oxford and was the Organ Scholar there. He won the EBU conductor's competition in 1995 and has had an international career as a conductor. DISC ONE: Somebody’s Gonna Off The Man by Barry White & The Love Unlimited Orchestra
DISC TWO: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley
DISC THREE: Ach, ich fühls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra
DISC FOUR: R. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op. 27 - 4. Morgen! by Richard Strauss, conducted by Kurt Masur, performed by Jessye Norman and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
DISC FIVE: Improvisation by Olivier Latry
DISC SIX: Kraftwerk-Rewerk, composed by Charlotte Harding and Lloyd Coleman, conducted by Charles Hazlewood
DISC SEVEN: Ndisakuthanda Mna, composed by Georges Bizet, performed by Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni and Dimpho Di Kopane, conducted by Charles Hazlewood
DISC EIGHT: The Last Time/Ultima Vez by Pauline Oliveros BOOK CHOICE: A book of poetry by Ivor Cutler
LUXURY ITEM: An espresso machine
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Ach, ich fühls, composed by Mozart, conducted by Otto Klemperer and performed by Gundula Janowitz and Philharmonia Orchestra Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor |
| Charles Jencks | 20120701 | 20120706 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect and critic Charles Jencks. Born in America, for the past four decades he has lived and worked in Britain - where his designs are as likely to be found in sculptural landscapes as buildings. Perhaps his most significant legacy, though, is the work he did with his late wife, Maggie Keswick. They worked together to design Maggie's Centres - a series of practical and beautifully-designed buildings to give information and support to people with cancer. He says: ""When you have cancer, there's many things which you have to do aside from the struggle - it's not just a medical problem, it's a social problem - of how you tell the children, how you tell your boss - and above all, as Maggie said, it's not to lose the joy of living." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Architect and critic Charles Jencks is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Charlie Brooker | 20180107 | 20180112 (R4) | Charlie Brooker is a satirist, broadcaster and writer. He created the Emmy-award winning series, Black Mirror, and presents Screenwipe and Newswipe which won Best Comedy Entertainment Show award at the British Comedy Awards in 2011. Born in 1971, his career has been influenced both by his early love of technology - he was a keen computer gamer - and by his passion for the anarchic, surreal and experimental comedy of Monty Python and The Young Ones. After creating his own comic while at school, he went on to provide cartoons for the magazine Oink! at the age of 15. He cultivated his acerbic style and satirical pessimism as a writer of games reviews and features for PC Zone magazine. His online creation TVGoHome, an often caustic parody of television listings in the style of Radio Times, brought him to the attention of the Guardian newspaper where he began writing a TV review column entitled Screen Burn in 2000. This was adapted into a BBC Four television series, and various spin-offs, including Gameswipe and Newswipe, followed. The first two series of Black Mirror, an anthology of unrelated dramas focused around the unexpected consequences of new technologies, aired on Channel 4. The third series was released on Netflix in 2016, followed by a fourth at the end of 2017. Charlie is married to former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq and they have two young sons. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Charlie Brooker, satirist and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Chi-chi Nwanoku | 20180211 | 20180216 (R4) | Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bass player and founder of Europe's first professional majority black and minority ethnic orchestra, Chineke!. Chi-chi is the eldest of five children, born to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother. Early on, she discovered two competing passions: playing the piano and 100 metre sprinting. She was aiming to qualify for the 1976 Olympics when she suffered a knee injury which cut short her life as an athlete. Her music teacher then suggested that she could have a career as a musician if she took up 'an unpopular orchestral instrument'. She began learning the double bass a week later. She was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and for over 30 years has played with renowned orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Baroque Soloists, London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , which she co-founded and where she was principal double bass for three decades. In 2015, she set up Chineke! to support, inspire and encourage black and minority ethnic musicians. Last year the Chineke! orchestra made its debut at the BBC Proms, and Chi-chi was awarded an OBE for her services to music. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bass player and founder of Europe's first professional majority black and minority ethnic orchestra, Chineke!.
Chi-chi is the eldest of five children, born to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother. Early on, she discovered two competing passions: playing the piano and 100 metre sprinting. She was aiming to qualify for the 1976 Olympics when she suffered a knee injury which cut short her life as an athlete. Her music teacher then suggested that she could have a career as a musician if she took up 'an unpopular orchestral instrument'. She began learning the double bass a week later.
She was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and for over 30 years has played with renowned orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Baroque Soloists, London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , which she co-founded and where she was principal double bass for three decades.
In 2015, she set up Chineke! to support, inspire and encourage black and minority ethnic musicians. Last year the Chineke! orchestra made its debut at the BBC Proms, and Chi-chi was awarded an OBE for her services to music. Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson | 20051016 | 20051021 | Sue Lawley invites the Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Chris Boardman, Cyclist | 20201025 | 20201030 (R4) | Chris Boardman is an Olympic cyclist, businessman and the Cycling and Walking Commissioner for Greater Manchester.
Both his parents were keen competitive amateur cyclists and they backed Chris as he gradually became interested in the sport as a teenager. He left school at 16, and trained as a carpenter to fund his cycling, and his love of making things has never left him. He met his wife Sally when they were teenagers and she supported him when he took time off work to train and compete.
He became a household name in 1992 at the Olympics in Barcelona, as the first British cyclist to win a gold medal in 72 years. He moved on to road racing and wore the yellow jersey in the Tour de France on three occasions. After retiring from racing, he was instrumental in the success of Team GB cycling at subsequent Olympics, with his focus on how improvements could be made in all aspects of design.
He also launched his own range of bicycles catering for elite and everyday cyclists, and as Greater Manchester's Cycling and Walking commissioner, he is finding ways to help people leave their cars at home. DISC ONE: Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra
DISC TWO: Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann
DISC THREE: Hurt Feelings by Flight of the Conchords
DISC FOUR: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon and Garfunkel
DISC FIVE: Barcelona by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
DISC SIX: Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones
DISC SEVEN: Embrace Me, You Child by Carly Simon
DISC EIGHT: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John BOOK CHOICE: Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
LUXURY ITEM: Butter
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon and Garfunkel Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Sarah Taylor Chris Boardman, cyclist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Chris Packham | 20131013 | 20131018 | Kirsty Young talks to naturalist, TV presenter and author Chris Packham. Kirsty Young's castaway is the naturalist, Chris Packham. TV presenter, filmmaker, writer, photographer, every bit of his work revolves around wildlife. If he's not busy telling us why we should love midges he's enthusing about the hearing capacity of a barn owl. His passion for animals is clear, what they think of him remains a little more uncertain; he's been attacked by a baboon, charged by lions and bitten by a puff adder. His obsession with the natural world began early when a predictable boyhood fascination for tadpoles and ladybirds grew to encompass mosquito larvae, lizards, snakes and bats. As a teenager he collected badger droppings by day and pogoed with electric blue hair at Clash gigs by night. These days he distinguishes himself by his impressive knowledge of his subject and his outspoken views on everything from countryside culls to the problems with cat owners. He says, ""I'll never rest until I've tried to do my own small bit in terms of changing the environment so it's a better place. I won't do it for my grandchildren because I won't have any and I won't do it for yours. I'll do it because it's the right thing to do." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews Chris Packham, naturalist, TV presenter and author. |
| Chris Riddell, Illustrator, Author And Political Cartoonist | 20200308 | 20200313 (R4) | Chris Riddell is an illustrator, author of children’s books and a political cartoonist. From 2015 to 2017, he was the Children’s Laureate, and he has won three Greenaway Medals for his work – more than any other illustrator. He was born in 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa, where his parents were both anti-apartheid activists. They moved to the UK when Chris was a year old. He grew up first in rural England, and later in south London where his father, a vicar, became chaplain of Brixton Prison. He started drawing as a young boy when he was given paper and pencils by his mother to keep him quiet during his father’s sermons. After school, he studied illustration under Raymond Briggs at Brighton Polytechnic and received his first commission while still at art school. As a writer his work ranges from picture books to chapter book series including Ottoline and Goth Girl, and as an illustrator he has frequently collaborated with authors such as Paul Stewart and Neil Gaiman. He started as a political cartoonist in the late 1980s and has drawn the Observer’s weekly cartoon since 1995, celebrating 25 years at the paper this year. As Children's Laureate, he encouraged children to draw, and championed the importance of school libraries and librarians. Chris is married to Jo, a fellow illustrator and printmaker, with whom he has three grown-up children, among them Katy, another illustrator. DISC ONE: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, performed by Sinfonia of London
DISC TWO: The Funeral: September 25, 1977 (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika) by Thuli Dumakude
DISC THREE: Smoke Signals by Phoebe Bridgers
DISC FOUR: Final Day by Young Marble Giants
DISC FIVE: Suzanne by Leonard Cohen
DISC SIX: Horace in Brighton by Bird in the Belly
DISC SEVEN: Klarinettenkonzert A-Dur K. 622 - 2. Adagio - I. Allegro. Composed by Mozart, directed by János Rolla, performed by Kálmán Berkes (clarinet) and Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, Budapest
DISC EIGHT: Tabula rasa: II. Silentium composed by Arvo Pärt, conducted by Paavo Järvi, performed by Viktoria Mullova (violin) and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra BOOK CHOICE: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, with the Tenniel illustrations.
LUXURY ITEM: Sketchbooks and pens
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, performed by Sinfonia of London Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Chris Riddell, illustrator and author, shares the soundtrack of his life. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Christiane Amanpour | 20161002 | 20161007 (R4) | Christiane Amanpour, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and broadcaster Christiane Amanpour. Her career as a reporter was forged in some of the world's most hostile environments from Bosnia to Rwanda and Iraq to Israel. From the early '90s onwards she was so ubiquitous on screen that her peers in the press pack coined the darkly comic phrase ""where there's a war, there's Amanpour." Born to an Iranian father and a British mother, she initially wanted to be a doctor, but the Revolution in Iran in 1979 galvanised her political consciousness and she turned to journalism. Her first major assignment was in Saudi Arabia where she covered the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. She describes her time in Bosnia as a life-changing experience which made her determined to tell the stories of ordinary people caught up in the chaos of conflict. During her career she has interviewed some of the biggest names on the world stage from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair to Robert Mugabe and Colonel Gaddafi. The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, she now anchors her own nightly television show on CNN although she can be whisked away at a moment's notice to cover major disasters around the globe. She has borne witness to some of history's worst atrocities but what gets her through is her eternal optimism and the courage and dignity of humanity. Producer: Paula McGinley. Christiane Amanpour, journalist and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
, journalist and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Christina Lamb | 20180121 | 20180126 (R4) | Christina Lamb is chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times and travels the world reporting from war zones and hot spots, speaking not just to key protagonists but also seeking out and detailing the daily impact of conflict on civilians. An only child, and brought up in Carshalton Beeches, she was a voracious reader and dreamed of being an explorer. Although she was rebellious at school, and at one point was asked to leave, she won a place at Oxford and went on to edit the university newspaper. While working as an intern for the Financial Times, she interviewed Benazir Bhutto and was invited to her wedding in Pakistan. That experience led to her determination to be a reporter from the front line. Her work has taken her to South Africa, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, and among her best-selling books are two which tell the stories of remarkable young women - Nujeen Mustafa who escaped from Aleppo in her wheelchair, and the Nobel prize-winner Malala Yousafzai. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Christina Lamb, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Christine Mcvie | 20171217 | 20171222 (R4) | Christine McVie enjoyed huge success with Fleetwood Mac, penning many of their signature songs including You Make Loving Fun, Oh Daddy, Little Lies, Everywhere and Songbird. The band has sold more than 100 million records and the album Rumours remains one of the most popular discs of all time, with sales of more than 40 million copies. The album was recorded during 1976 whilst the band members were going through relationship break-ups and the stories of excess and drug taking during the 1970s and 1980s are well documented. In 1998 McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. The same year, after almost 30 years with the band, and having a developed a fear of flying, she opted to leave and lived in semi-retirement for the next 15 years, releasing only one solo album in 2004. She bought a Jacobean house in Kent and spent the next four years restoring it. Christine rejoined the band officially in January 2014, and that year she received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Christine McVie, musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Christopher Frayling | 20031102 | 20031107 (R4) | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is Professor Sir Christopher Frayling the Rector of the Royal College of Art and a champion of popular culture. He was born into an affluent family living in London. His father, Major Arthur Frayling, was a successful furrier, and his mother was fascinated by the arts and cars - she won the RAC Rally in 1952. At six he was sent to boarding school, which he hated, and it was there that he developed his life long love of film acting and design. He studied history at Cambridge and did a doctorate on Jean Jacques Rosseau and the French Revolution. He fought his father's ambitions for him to enter advertising and chose an academic career path, becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and Bath in the 1970s. At that time he worked on the programme The World at War and he's since become an accomplished broadcaster known for his work on Radio 4. He won an award at the New York Film and Television Festival for a six-part Channel 4 series about advertising called The Art of Persuasion. He's published 13 books to date with an eclectic range of titles from spaghetti westerns to The Face of Tutankhamun and Clint Eastwood - a critical biography. As well as being Rector of the Royal College of Art, Sir Christopher is also the longest serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is Chairman of the Design Council. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Il Triello by Ennio Morricone
Book: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Luxury: V & A Museum Sue Lawley's castaway is Rector of the Royal College of Art Christopher Frayling Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Christopher Meyer | 20031123 | 20031130 | Sue Lawley's castaway is Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. |
| Christopher Meyer | 20031128 | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. Repeat. |
| Christopher Nolan | 20180218 | 20180223 (R4) | Christopher Nolan is best known for reviving the Batman film franchise and for directing the blockbusters Inception and Dunkirk. His films have taken nearly $5 billion at the box office. Born in London in 1970 to an English father and an American mother, he discovered film-making at the age of seven. In what he describes as "a leap of faith", his father lent him his Super 8 camera - and he's not stopped making films since. From youthful experiments, manipulating his action figures and shooting stop motion animations, he progressed to making short films at university where he read English - although he spent more time at University College London's Bloomsbury Theatre, home to the film society, than the lecture theatre. His first feature film, Following, had enough festival exposure and critical success to secure him his first official budget of $4.5 million to make his next film, Memento. In 2005 he was hailed for reinventing the Caped Crusader in the dark and gritty Batman Begins. He regularly works with the same actors and production team including his long-time producer, his wife, Emma Thomas. The couple's latest film, Dunkirk, is nominated in the best picture category of the Oscars this year and Christopher has a nomination for Best Director. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Christopher Nolan, film director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Christy Moore | 20070617 | 20070622
20070622 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Irish musician Christy Moore. His stature and influence in folk music is unparalleled - Bono, Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg are among those who cite him as a key influence. A passionate performer, he's the archetypal Irish poet and protest singer. In the late 1970s Special Branch raided the launch of his album H Block, his songs have been banned by both London and Dublin courts and, as recently as 2004, he was held by police and questioned about his lyrics and lifestyle. Not all the struggles he's dealt with have been political. By his own admission he wasted years, maybe even decades, boozing and bingeing on drugs. Having cleaned up his act he was then forced to confront the devastating legacy of his father's early death and how it affected him throughout his life. Elements of this programme may offend some listeners. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Taimse Im' Chodladh by Planxty
Book: Collection of Popular Songs of England & Scotland by Francis Child
Luxury: A set of Uillean pipes. Kirsty Young's castaway is singer-songwriter Christy Moore. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites Irish singer/songwriter Christy Moore to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Irish singer/songwriter Christy Moore. Kirsty Young invites Irish singer/songwriter Christy Moore to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Claire Horton, charity worker | 20210228 | 20210305 (R4) | Claire Horton is the former chief executive of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and is currently director general of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. She joined Battersea in 2010 during its landmark 150th year, spearheading a campaign which transformed the animal rescue service into a UK top 10 charity brand. During her years in charge, income and volunteer numbers quadrupled; new facilities were developed and the charity successfully campaigned for changes in animal welfare legislation. As a teenager Claire volunteered for a number of organisations including Mencap and the Riding for the Disabled Association. At 18 she joined the police force as a special constable, patrolling the streets of Dudley where she lived. Her first position in the charity sector was at the NSPCC and she later worked for the Cats Protection League and the Variety Club of Great Britain. In 2020 she was appointed CBE for her services to animal welfare. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley Claire Horton, charity worker, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: guests share what they would take to a desert island. |
| Clare Balding | 20131201 | 20131206 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster Clare Balding. The BBC TV coverage of London's 2012 Olympics was her triumph and much like Team GB she'd been in training for her big moment for quite a while. She's worked on five Olympic Games, four Paralympics, three Winter Olympics and a great deal of horse racing. It's on the turf that's she's most at home - her father was a champion racehorse trainer and for a number of years she herself was a leading amateur flat jockey. The first pony she ever rode, as a toddler, was a gift from the Queen; she went to public school and Cambridge but her life hasn't been an entirely easy ride. She has coped with thyroid cancer, being forcibly ""outed"" by the tabloid press and in her own words being ""a disappointment from the moment"" she was born. She says, ""This may sound nauseating but I'm a very happy person. I love my work, I love my life and I'm told by those who know and love me that it's a bit like living with Tigger"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to broadcaster Clare Balding. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster Clare Balding. |
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| Clive Stafford Smith | 20041121 | 20041126 | Sue Lawley invites the death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15pm] |
| Colm Toibin | 20160103 | 20160108 (R4) | Colm Toibin, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin. Best-known for his novels ""Brooklyn"" - now made into a film - ""Nora Webster"" and ""The Master,"" he has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times. Born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the second youngest of five children, Colm's life changed suddenly when his father died after a long illness when he was twelve. He says he has been dealing with the trauma which resulted in his writing ever since. After attending St Peter's College in Wexford and University College Dublin, he spent three years in Barcelona teaching English before returning to Ireland. He worked as a journalist until his books began to get published. He once told a class he was teaching that ""you have to be a terrible monster to write. I said, 'Someone might have told you something they shouldn't have told you, and you have to be prepared to use it because it will make a great story. You have to use it even though the person is identifiable. If you can't do it then writing isn't for you. You've no right to be here. If there is any way I can help you get into law school then I will. Your morality will be more useful in a courtroom.'" Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. 
Born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the second youngest of five children, Colm's life changed suddenly when his father died after a long illness when he was twelve. He says he has been dealing with the trauma which resulted in his writing ever since. After attending St Peter's College in Wexford and University College Dublin, he spent three years in Barcelona teaching English before returning to Ireland. He worked as a journalist until his books began to get published. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin. Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. |
| Colonel Lucy Giles | 20201227 | 20210101 (R4) | Colonel Lucy Giles is an officer of the British Army’s Royal Logistic Corps and is currently President of the Army Officer Selection Board - the first woman to take on this role. After attending her local comprehensive school in Wincanton, Somerset, she studied Biological Sciences at Exeter University where she joined the University Officers’ Training Corps, despite having no military background herself. After what she calls a “retrospective year out”, she joined the last female-only company at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Transport in 1992, which became the Royal Logistic Corps the following year. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, she has served in over 20 countries including South Africa, Bosnia, East Timor and Sierra Leone. She was the first female Officer Commanding of 47 Air Despatch Squadron, enabling operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in 2015 became the first woman Commander of New College, Sandhurst. She was promoted to the rank of colonel in 2018. She is married to Brigadier Nick Post, and they have two children, Jess and Alex. In her spare time, she is a marathon runner. Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Sarah Taylor Colonel Lucy Giles shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Sarah Taylor DISC ONE: The Day That Never Comes by Metallica
DISC TWO: Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana
DISC THREE: Pilate's Dream (from Jesus Christ Superstar) by Barry Dennen
DISC FOUR: Love Shack by The B-52’s
DISC FIVE: Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead
DISC SIX: For those in Peril on the Sea, a special arrangement by Lieutenant Colonel Simon Haw MBE, performed by Band of the Coldstream Guards and members of the Guards’ Chapel Choir
DISC SEVEN: Fire by Kasabian
DISC EIGHT: Big in Japan by Alphaville BOOK CHOICE: A book by Agatha Christie
LUXURY ITEM: A jigsaw puzzle
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Day That Never Comes by Metallica |
| Comedian Ruby Wax | 20050626 | 20050701 | Sue Lawley invites broadcaster and comedian Ruby Wax to choose eight records to take to Radio 4s mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites broadcaster and comedian Ruby Wax to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Commander Chris Hadfield | 20151220 | 20151225 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway is Chris Hadfield. He was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station and took part in three space missions spending a total of 166 days orbiting the Earth. He has spent over 14 hours doing two space walks. He flew his first eight day mission into space in 1995 during which he visited the Russian space station Mir. In 2001 he paid his first visit to the International Space Station to help install Canadarm2, a robot arm helping to build the station which was launched three years previously. In 2012 he began his final five month stay in space on board the ISS. It was on this mission that his videos of life in space - including a film of him singing David Bowie's Space Oddity and accompanying himself on guitar - led to him enjoying a huge following on social media. Chris was born in 1959 in Ontario, the second of five children: his father was a pilot and the family lived on a farm. He mapped out his future career aged nine when he watched Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon in 1969. In pursuit of his dream Chris first become an Air Cadet, then attended military college, becoming a fighter pilot and then a test pilot, as well as an aeronautical engineer. He finally achieved his ambition of becoming an astronaut in 1992. He went onto become the Chief of Robotics at the NASA Astronaut Office and Chief of International Space Station Operations at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas. Following his final space mission, Chris retired from the Canadian Space Agency in July 2013. Amongst the awards he's received are the military Meritorious Service Cross, NASA's Exceptional Service Medal and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. He was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station and took part in three space missions spending a total of 166 days orbiting the Earth. He has spent over 14 hours doing two space walks. He flew his first eight day mission into space in 1995 during which he visited the Russian space station Mir. In 2001 he paid his first visit to the International Space Station to help install Canadarm2, a robot arm helping to build the station which was launched three years previously. In 2012 he began his final five month stay in space on board the ISS. It was on this mission that his videos of life in space - including a film of him singing David Bowie's Space Oddity and accompanying himself on guitar - led to him enjoying a huge following on social media. Chris was born in 1959 in Ontario, the second of five children: his father was a pilot and the family lived on a farm. He mapped out his future career aged nine when he watched Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon in 1969. In pursuit of his dream Chris first become an Air Cadet, then attended military college, becoming a fighter pilot and then a test pilot, as well as an aeronautical engineer. He finally achieved his ambition of becoming an astronaut in 1992.
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| Composer John Rutter | 20051225 | 20051230 | Sue Lawley invites the composer John Rutter to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the composer John Rutter to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Conductor Lorin Maazel | 20050403 | 20050408 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the musical director of the NEW YORK Philharmonic Orchestra Lorin Maazel. He was a child prodigy whose career as a conductor has survived - and thrived-beyond his early precocity. His musical talent became apparent at the age of 5, when he began playing the violin while at 7 he was discovered conducting a piece by Haydn playing on his parents' record player. He was the first American and youngest conductor, at the age of 30 , to conduct Lohengrin at Bayreuth. After a career which has included prestigious posts at the Vienna State Opera, and the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, he is currently Musical Director of the NEW YORK Philharmonic. In May this year Lorin Maazel's first opera, an adaption of George Orwell's 1984, will he performed at the Royal Opera House in LONDON. 1. Prelude or L'enfant Prodigue Performer Jascha Heifetz (Violin) Arpad Sandor (Piano) Composer Debussy - Arranger - Heifetz Publisher EMI CD Title Jascha Heifetz - Recital Track CD 2 Trk 7 Label EMI Classics Rec No: 0777 7 649929 2 6 2. Ave Marie - Otello Performer Herva Nelli (Sop) NBC Symphony Orchestra Cond. Arturo Toscanini Composer Verdi Publisher Guild GmbH CD Title Otello - Toscanini Broadcast Legacy Track CD2 Trk 19 Label Guild Historical Rec No: GHCD 2275/7 3. Prelude op11 No 9 Performer Vladimir Horowitz Composer A.Scriabin Publisher BMG CD Title Horowitz plays Scriabin Track Tr 4 Label RCA Victor Gold Seal Rec No: GD86215 4. 4th Piano Concerto Performer Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Philharmonia Orchestra Cond. Ettore Gracis Composer Rachmaninov CD Title Ravel/Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, Benedetti Michelangeli Track 6 Rec No: CDC 7 49326 2 5. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' Performer Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Cond. Wilhelm Furtwangler Composer Beethoven CD Title Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 + 3 ""Eroica"" Furtwangler Track 5 Rec No CDH7630332 6. Quartet No 14 ""Death and the Maiden"" 4th Movement Performer Budapest String Quartet Composer Schubert Publisher Novello Records CD Title Budapest Quartet Schubert/Dvorak Track 4 Label Novello Records Rec No: NVLCD 903 7. 4th Movement Cello Suite No.3 Performer Janos Starker Composer Bach Publisher Mercury CD Title Bach Suites for Solo Cello Janos Straker Track 16 Label Mercury Living Presence Rec No: 432 756-2 8. Nocturne No. Performer Wilhelm Kempff Composer Faure Publisher Philips CD Title Great Pianists of 20th Century Wilhelm Kempff Vol 3 Track CD 2 Trk 2 Label Steinway and Sons Rec No: 156 869 - 2 Record:""Death and the Maiden"" 4th Movement Book: Pens退es, Pascal Luxury: Vermeer Painting - The Piano Lesson. Sue Lawley invites the conductor Lorin Maazel to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites high wire walker, Philippe Petit, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Sue Lawley invites the conductor Lorin Maazel to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Conrad Anker | 20130609 | 20130614 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the mountaineer Conrad Anker. Some of us choose a life in I.T. or event planning - Conrad Anker has opted to swing from a nylon stepladder 19,000 feet up a cliff with a dose of trench foot and a wedge of stale cheese for supper. It may seem an odd way to spend one's life but it's his way. One of the world's elite climbers he's credited with a long list of first time ascents. He's also summited Everest three times. During one renowned climb he discovered the icy corpse of the legendary George Mallory who had perished along with Sandy Irvine as they tried to scale the peak - in nothing more than hobnail boots and tweeds - in 1924. When he isn't exploring the far corners of the world's wilderness he's at home in Montana with his wife Jennifer, the widow of his best friend Alex Lowe, who was killed by an avalanche that narrowly missed Conrad himself. He says of his life, ""Most people are so risk averse. The world is full of couch potatoes... we climbers should get government stipends for keeping the risk-taking gene pool alive." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Some of us chose a life in I.T. or event planning - Conrad Anker has opted to swing from a nylon stepladder 19,000 feet up a cliff with a dose of trench foot and a wedge of stale cheese for supper. It may seem an odd way to spend one's life but it's his way. |
| Cook Nigel Slater | 20050605 | 20050610 | Sue Lawley invites the author and cook Nigel Slater to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the author and cook Nigel Slater to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Evening |
| Craig Brown | 20120812 | 20120817 | Critic and satirist Craig Brown is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the critic and satirist Craig Brown. A prolific writer, he's lampooned everyone from DH Lawrence to Victoria Beckham and, earlier this year, he became the first journalist to win three separate prizes at the British Press Awards. He showed early promise - when he was 14 he started writing spoofs of Harold Pinter plays, and his characters have their own entries in Who's Who. Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Cressida Dick, Commissioner Of The Metropolitan Police | 20190210 | 20190215 (R4) | Cressida Dick is Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. She was born in 1960, the youngest child of two university professors. Her parents divorced when she was still at primary school and she and her older siblings grew up in Oxford. Their father died when Cressida was just 11. She read Agriculture and Forest Sciences at Oxford University before spending a year in accountancy. She joined the Metropolitan Police in 1983 where her first beat was on the streets of Soho. After a decade in London, she transferred to Thames Valley Police where she worked her way up to become area commander in Oxford. In 2001 she completed a master’s degree in Criminology, re-joining the Met to head its diversity directorate and, from 2003, Operation Trident, the Met’s gun crime unit. It was in this capacity that she came to wider public attention when, in the wake of the 2005 London transport bombings, an innocent man was shot dead by police at Stockwell tube station. The Met was severely criticised in the aftermath of Jean Charles de Menezes’s death. Cressida Dick was the commander in charge of the operation, but a 2007 trial found that she bore no personal culpability. In 2011, she became Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations responsible for counter-terrorism work, but in 2015 she left the Met to work at the Foreign Office. In February 2017, she made her return to policing when she was the successful candidate in the search for a new Commissioner. She took up the post in April 2017 for a five-year term, the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the job. BOOK CHOICE: The Complete works of Thomas Hardy
LUXURY ITEM: Endless supply of floral scented soaps
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police commissioner, shares her choices with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Cuban Ballet Dancer Carlos Acosta | 20050102 | 20050107 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta to choose eight discs to take to the mythical island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Dame Anne Owers | 20110227 | 20110304 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers. A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. ""The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime." Record: Handel's Messiah Book: An Anthology of British poetry Luxury: A solar powered word processor Producer: Isabel Sargent. "The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime." Dame Anne Owers joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. ""The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime."" Record: Handel's Messiah Book: An Anthology of British poetry Luxury: A solar powered word processor A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. "The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime." |
| Dame Anne Owers | 20110304 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers. A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. "The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Dame Anne Owers joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Dame Claire Bertschinger | 20140323 | 20140328 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the nurse and humanitarian Dame Claire Bertschinger. She's worked for The Red Cross in over a dozen countries including Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Liberia amid the sort of raw human suffering that most of us find - even on the TV - almost unbearable to witness. It was through Michael Buerk's landmark news reports of the Ethiopian famine 30 years ago that she first grabbed our attention. We saw her as a young nurse surrounded by thousands of starving people and forced, daily, to make the truly terrible decision of choosing who to feed. Throughout the years she's won numerous plaudits and awards: her Florence Nightingale Medal is given ""to honour those ""who've distinguished themselves in times of war by exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled." She says, ""I don't live just to eat and sleep and get money to have a nice house... I have to create value - I have to do something in life." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the nurse & humanitarian Dame Claire Bertschinger. |
| Dame Elish Angiolini | 20140209 | 20140214 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the lawyer Dame Elish Angiolini. The first woman to become both Scotland's Solicitor General and Lord Advocate she's currently principal of St Hugh's College Oxford. It's a long way from Govan where her father heaved bags of coal round the streets and there wasn't always money for the meter. She was the youngest of four and by her own admission being ""gabby"" was the only way she got heard. It's an early skill that seems to have served her pretty well - in the legal establishment she gained a reputation as a gutsy moderniser, unafraid to challenge the system. Among her innovations a pioneering support scheme for vulnerable victims and establishing the National Crimes Sex Unit for Scotland - the first of its kind in Europe. Her predisposition to seeing things from the victim's point of view might have something to do with her own experience - in 1984 she was badly injured in a rail disaster that killed 13 others - including the two men sitting opposite her. She says ""... Advocacy is a great life skill. If you go to your bank manager asking for an overdraft, or if you barter at a market, you are employing advocacy skills. It is all about empathy and charisma." Producer: Paula McGinley. 
Dame Elish Angiolini is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. It's an early skill that seems to have served her pretty well - in the legal establishment she gained a reputation as a gutsy moderniser, unafraid to challenge the system. Among her innovations a pioneering support scheme for vulnerable victims and establishing the National Crimes Sex Unit for Scotland - the first of its kind in Europe. Dame Elish Angiolini is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Dame Ellen Macarthur | 20091004 | 20091009 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. She was 28 when she became the fastest person to sail solo around the world, and has been called the 'first true heroine of the 21st century'. She still sails with friends and with the charity she set up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce food and fuel really are. She still sails with friends and with the charity she set up for children with cancer and leukaemia, but her ambition now is to try to find a way of living the same sustainable existence on land that she lives at sea. When your life depends on it, she says, you realise how scarce food and fuel really are. ![]()
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| Dame Ellen Macarthur | 20091009 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. |
| Dame Esther Rantzen, Broadcaster And Campaigner | 20190310 | 20190315 (R4) | Dame Esther Rantzen is best known as the presenter of the long-running TV series That’s Life, which began on BBC One in 1973. She was both presenter and producer of the programme, which was hugely successful, regularly reaching 20 million viewers. It featured consumer affairs, vox pops and light-hearted pieces about talking dogs and peculiarly shaped vegetables, along with serious investigations, including reports on the safety of children’s playgrounds and on child abuse. A special edition of That’s Life in 1986 led Esther to set up Childline, the charity which offers support and information for young people. That's Life ended after 21 years and Esther went on to present her own daytime talk show. A fan of reality TV, she’s appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity First Dates, Celebrity Stars in their Eyes and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. It was while she was working on That’s Life that she met TV producer Desmond Wilcox. They later married and had three children. A few years after Desmond’s death, Esther wrote a newspaper article about how lonely she felt as a widow. The response inspired her to set up her second charity, Silverline, which offers friendship and advice to older, lonely people. She has received many TV awards over the years and was made a Dame in 2015 for her charity work. She stood unsuccessfully as an independent MP for Luton South in the General Election of 2010. Now 78, she is still very involved in her charity work and is a grandmother of five. BOOK CHOICE: Poem for the Day with a Foreword by Wendy Cope
LUXURY: A bath – sometimes filled with hot water, sometimes cold water and sometimes champagne.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: September Song by Frank Sinatra Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Dame Esther Rantzen shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. A castaway guest shares the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Dame Fanny Waterman | 20100704 | 20100709 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman, founder of Leeds International Piano competition. Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman. ![]()
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| Dame Fanny Waterman | 20100709 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman. |
| Dame Glenys Stacey, Former Chief Inspector Of Probation | 20191020 | 20191025 (R4) | Dame Glenys Stacey has spent 40 years in public service, including high profile work as a regulator in key areas of national life. She has just stepped down after her five year term as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation during which she criticised the decision to privatise the Probation service calling it “irredeemably flawed”. Glenys was born in Walsall Wood in the West Midlands, where her father was a painter and decorator for the council and her mother worked full time in Union Locks. She left school at 16 and her first job was in an explosives factory. She became a legal executive before deciding to take A levels and then study law at the University of Kent. She was the founding CEO of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, set up by the government in January 1997, after the miscarriages of justice in the cases of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four. As Chief Executive of Animal Health, she oversaw the management of the outbreak of foot and mouth in 2007 and then led Ofqual for five years, during the reform of GCSEs and A levels. She was awarded a Damehood in 2016 for her services to education and earlier this year she became a founding Board Member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, an advisory body established by the government. DISC ONE: Loch Lomond – Sir Harry Lauder
DISC TWO: Harry Belafonte - Scarlett Ribbons (For Her Hair)
DISC THREE: T.REX –Ride a White Swan
DISC FOUR: Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
DISC FIVE: Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries
DISC SIX: Second movement of Saint Saen’s Piano concerto number 2 in G minor
DISC SEVEN: Bob Marley and the Wailers - I Shot the Sherriff
DISC EIGHT: Soave sia Il vento from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte BOOK CHOICE: Oxford Book of English Short Stories
LUXURY ITEM: A selection of seeds
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Photo: BBC / Amanda Benson Dame Glenys Stacey shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Dame Glenys Stacey shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. |
| Dame Harriet Walter | 20110626 | 20110701 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. She has been a stalwart of the stage for more than three decades - winning great acclaim for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Performing ran in the family - her uncle is the actor Christopher Lee and she remembers how, as a child, he would make her shriek by putting on his famous 'Mummy' walk to scare her. She turned down a place at Oxford because she knew she wanted to act - only to find that the drama schools weren't keen on her... she was turned down five times before securing a place. She says she has never thought about making clever career choices, but, in the year in which she has been made a dame, turned sixty and married for the first time, she says it has all turned out better than she ever expected. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actress Dame Harriet Walter joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. She has been a stalwart of the stage for more than three decades - winning great acclaim for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Performing ran in the family - her uncle is the actor Christopher Lee and she remembers how, as a child, he would make her shriek by putting on his famous 'Mummy' walk to scare her. She turned down a place at Oxford because she knew she wanted to act - only to find that the drama schools weren't keen on her... she was turned down five times before securing a place. |
| Dame Harriet Walter | 20110701 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. She has been a stalwart of the stage for more than three decades - winning great acclaim for her work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Performing ran in the family - her uncle is the actor Christopher Lee and she remembers how, as a child, he would make her shriek by putting on his famous 'Mummy' walk to scare her. She turned down a place at Oxford because she knew she wanted to act - only to find that the drama schools weren't keen on her... she was turned down five times before securing a place. She says she has never thought about making clever career choices, but, in the year in which she has been made a dame, turned sixty and married for the first time, she says it has all turned out better than she ever expected. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actress Dame Harriet Walter joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Dame Helena Morrissey, Financier And Campaigner | 20200322 | 20200327 (R4) | Dame Helena Morrissey is a former City fund manager and chief executive of a major investment company, who has also campaigned to boost the number of women in the boardroom. Newspapers regularly describe her as 'Superwoman', because alongside her many professional achievements, she's the mother of nine children. Helena Morrissey is the daughter of two teachers, and her drive was evident from an early age. She was - by her own admission - a 'manic Brownie', striving to gain the maximum number of badges, and she also played the piano to a high standard. She won a place at Cambridge University from her comprehensive school in Chichester, and on graduating, joined an asset management company in their New York office. On her return to London, she felt that she was denied promotion because she had a young baby. She moved to Newton Investment Management, and at the age of 35 she was appointed the CEO - a role she was not expecting to take. Under her leadership, the company's assets grew from £20 billion to £50 billion. In 2010 she established the 30% Club, campaigning for better female representation on the boards of British companies, and in 2017 she received a DBE for services to diversity in the financial sector. She lives in London with her husband Richard, who gave up full time work to look after their many children. DISC ONE: My Sweet Lord by George Harrison
DISC TWO: Polonaise in A Flat, Op. 53, Heroic, composed by Frédéric François Chopin and performed by Arthur Rubenstein
DISC THREE: We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters
DISC FOUR: Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
DISC FIVE: Moon River by Audrey Hepburn
DISC SIX: Calm Down by The Clementines
DISC SEVEN: Condolence by Benjamin Clementine
DISC EIGHT: God Is by Kanye West BOOK CHOICE: Much Obliged, Jeeves by P. G.Wodehouse
LUXURY ITEM: A grand piano
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: My Sweet Lord by George Harrison Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Dame Helena Morrissey, campaigner, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Dame Joan Bakewell | 20090809 | 20090814 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for radical TV show Late Night Line-Up. It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play Betrayal. Looking back on it now from the age of 76, she says, 'We always said we had a damn good time'. Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as strong as ever. She says she has always regarded the world to be improved and is not afraid of being called a wishy-washy liberal. 'It's a good thing to do,' she says. 'You feel you can be part of change.'. Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Born in Stockport in 1933, it was in the 1960s that she first started to shape the cultural agenda, interviewing the likes of Kingsley Amis and Stockhausen for radical TV show Late Night Line-Up. It was also during the 1960s that she had an affair with Harold Pinter, a relationship which inspired his play Betrayal. Now appointed as the Voice of Older People by Gordon Brown, her passion for debate and social change is as strong as ever. |
| Dame Joan Bakewell | 20090814 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. |
| Dame Katherine Grainger | 20170226 | 20170303 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Olympian and rower, Dame Katherine Grainger. A six-time rowing World Champion across a variety of classes, her silver medal at Rio in 2016 made her the most successful female British Olympic athlete ever, having won medals in five consecutive games. Born in Glasgow in 1975, her parents were teachers. At school she earned a black belt in karate, and it wasn't until she went to Edinburgh University that her passion for rowing was truly ignited. Winning silver medals at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics, Katherine finally ceased to be the sport's eternal bridesmaid when, with her partner Anna Watkins, she won gold in the Double Sculls at the 2012 London Olympics. After two years away from the sport, Katherine returned in 2014, to win her fourth silver and fifth overall Olympic medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics with her new partner, Vicky Thornley. Alongside her sporting achievements, she gained an Honours degree in Law from Edinburgh, a Masters in Medical Law from Glasgow University and was awarded a PhD in Homicide Sentencing from King's College London in 2013. She was made the fourth Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University in 2015 and became a Dame in the 2017 New Year Honours. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews Dame Katherine Grainger, Olympian and rower. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
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| Dame Minouche Shafik | 20180225 | 20180302 (R4) | Dame Minouche Shafik is the director of the London School of Economics and a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
She was born in Egypt but her family had to flee the country when she was four years old, because her parents lost everything during President Nasser's nationalisation programme. Her father, a scientist, found work in America, and Minouche and her sister attended numerous schools there, before she went back to Egypt at the age of 16. She trained as an economist, studying at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the London School of Economics before receiving her doctorate at Oxford.
Minouche Shafik was the youngest ever Vice President of the World Bank, at the age of 36. She later served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development from 2008 to 2011. She joined the Bank of England as its first Deputy Governor on Markets in 2014, and was a member of the bank's monetary policy committee. She became a Dame in the 2015 June Birthday Honours list.Producer: Sarah Taylor. Dame Minouche Shafik, economist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
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| Dame Monica Mason | 20120108 | 20120113 | Dame Monica Mason, Director of the Royal Ballet, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Dame Monica Mason is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the director of the Royal Ballet, Dame Monica Mason. Her working life has been dedicated to dance. When she joined the Royal Ballet at fifteen she was the youngest dancer to be admitted to the company and, during her career, its legendary choreographer Kenneth MacMillan created five roles for her. She became director ten years ago and is due to step down this summer. She says: "I couldn't bear it if I thought that, behind closed doors, somebody was saying 'she's here again, you know', so I shall keep my distance and only go in when asked." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Dame Monica Mason | 20120113 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the director of the Royal Ballet, Dame Monica Mason. Her working life has been dedicated to dance. When she joined the Royal Ballet at fifteen she was the youngest dancer to be admitted to the company and, during her career, its legendary choreographer Kenneth MacMillan created five roles for her. She became director ten years ago and is due to step down this summer. She says: "I couldn't bear it if I thought that, behind closed doors, somebody was saying 'she's here again, you know', so I shall keep my distance and only go in when asked." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Dame Monica Mason, Director of the Royal Ballet, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer | 20190728 | 20190802 (R4) | Dame Sally Davies, CMO, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, England | 20190728 | 20190802 (R4) | Dame Sally Davies is the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England. She will take up her next post as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, later this year. She was born in Birmingham in 1949 to academic parents - her father was an Anglican priest and theologian, her mother a scientist. She studied medicine at Manchester University and after two 'brutalising' years spent learning the job on the wards, she welcomed the opportunity to move to Madrid as a diplomat’s wife. However, she decided that she did not enjoy being - in her words - 'an appendage', and so she returned to medicine in the UK, starting in paediatrics and then moving to haematology, specialising in Sickle Cell Disease. Her first marriage didn’t last and her second ended in tragedy when her husband died of leukaemia within months of the wedding. After joining her first research scheme committee in the late 1980s, Sally widened her remit. She became Chief Scientific Adviser to the Health Secretary and, in 2011, Chief Medical Officer for England. Her achievements include creating the National Institute for Health Research, a body to oversee the funding of research in the NHS, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the dangers of anti-microbial resistance. Sally holds 24 honorary degrees and is about to return to academia, taking up her post as the first woman Master of Trinity College in October 2019. She is married to Willem with whom she has two grown-up daughters. BOOK CHOICE: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
LUXURY ITEM: Bubble bath
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Trumpet Shall Sound, from Handel's Messiah Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Dame Sally Davies, CMO of England, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Dame Stephanie Shirley | 20100523 | 20100528 | Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with a thousand children and just two adults. She went on to set up a computer programming company which made her a millionaire many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune and now is an ambassador for philanthropy. Her determination throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was a life worth saving. Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with a thousand children and just two adults. She went on to set up a computer programming company which made her a millionaire many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune and now is an ambassador for philanthropy. Her determination throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was a life worth saving. ![]()
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| Dame Stephanie Shirley | 20100528 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley. |
| Dame Sue Campbell, Director Women's Football At The Fa | 20200119 | 20200124 (R4) | Dame Sue Campbell is the Director of Women’s Football at the Football Association. The women’s game has become increasingly popular recently and last year the England team - the Lionesses - made it to the World Cup semi-finals. Born in 1948, just outside Nottingham, Sue was sporty from an early age, even changing schools to allow her to play football. She became a PE teacher in Manchester and realised how transformative sport could be, increasing self-esteem, motivation and self-belief. In the mid-1980s, after learning about excellence in sport at Loughborough University and playing netball for England as well as dabbling in the pentathlon, Sue became deputy chief executive (and a year later chief executive) of the National Coaching Foundation, which provided education for coaches at both ends of the spectrum, from parent volunteers to elite coaches. Ten years later, in 1995, she co-founded the Youth Sport Trust to set up a sports activity programme for every primary school in the country. It was hugely successful: in 2003 only 23% of school children were getting two hours of PE a week. By 2008, this figure had risen to 95%. In 2010, the coalition government cut their funding. By this time, back at the elite end of the sporting spectrum, Sue was also in charge of UK Sport, where she presided over Team GB's biggest Olympic medal haul in living memory, at the London 2012 games. In 2016, she took her current job as head of Women’s Football at the FA. She has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2008. BOOK CHOICE: The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
LUXURY ITEM: A photo album
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Music Of My Heart by Gloria Estefan And *N SYNC Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Dame Sue Campbell shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Dame Sue Campbell is the Director of Women’s Football at the Football Association. The women’s game has become increasingly popular recently and last year the England team, the Lionesses, made it to the World Cup semi-finals. |
| Dame Wendy Hall | 20140727 | 20140801 | Kirsty Young talks to Dame Wendy Hall. 
Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, Dame Wendy fought long and hard to prove that her type of web science was highly significant and here to stay. If algebraic topology and open hypermedia systems really aren't your thing, Dame Wendy is also in demand as a brilliant communicator on, what can seem to outsiders to be, impenetrable topics. Her parents were from humble beginnings and it was clear from the get-go that their first born had a budding flair for numbers: aged six she was charged with teaching a group of schoolmates maths. The first in her family to go to University she rejected Cambridge, judging it ""too stuffy"". She says, ""I get too excited about stuff. I love my life and am passionate about web science, women in science and shopping"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Dame Zaha Hadid | 20160221 | 20160226 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect, Dame Zaha Hadid. The first woman to be awarded architecture's highest honour, the Pritzker Prize, she designed the Aquatic Centre for London 2012, Glasgow's Riverside Museum and has twice won the Stirling Prize - first for the MAXXI museum in Rome and secondly for her design for the Grace Academy school in Brixton, London. She recently became the first woman in her own right to receive the RIBA Gold Medal. She was born in Baghdad in 1950 where her father was a prominent member of the opposition National Democratic Party. After attending school there, she travelled to Switzerland and England to boarding school before returning to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association. In 1983 she won her first competition to design the Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong. It gained her international recognition though it was never built: her first building was the Vitra Fire Station in Germany in 1993. In the late 1990s she built a contemporary arts centre in Cincinnati and a BMW car manufacturing plant in Leipzig. She won competitions to design a new opera house in Cardiff but it was never realised and her first permanent building in Britain was a Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Scotland built in 2006. She has designed stations for the Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria and in 2010 the Opera House in Guangzhou, China. In 2014 she became the first woman to win the Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, in Baku, Azerbaijan. She was made a Dame in 2012 for services to architecture. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
In 1983 she won her first competition to design the Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong. It gained her international recognition though it was never built: her first building was the Vitra Fire Station in Germany in 1993. In the late 1990s she built a contemporary arts centre in Cincinnati & a BMW car manufacturing plant in Leipzig. She won competitions to design a new opera house in Cardiff but it was never realised and her first permanent building in Britain was a Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Scotland built in 2006. She has designed stations for the Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria and in 2010 the Opera House in Guangzhou, China. In 2014 she became the first woman to win the Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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| Damian Lewis | 20141130 | 20141205 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Damian Lewis. As part of the wave of British talent that's crashed onto America's shores in recent years his impact has made a deep impression on the creative landscape. His role as Sergeant Brodie in Homeland saw him win both an Emmy and Golden Globe and along with Band of Brothers, The Forsyte Saga and a long list of other credits, he now ranks as one of our most well recognised and highly regarded performers. Things didn't always look so peachy: aged 11, and in the school production of Princess Ida, he forgot the entire third act and stood mute in front of a packed auditorium. Tellingly, rather than scuttling into the wings with shame he soldiered on and by 16 he knew performing was, more than anything, what he wanted to do. He says, ""I am a person who is ambitious. I'm ambitious to get the very best from every moment and even if that's just taking my children to the zoo... I want it to be the best it can be."". Kirsty Young interviews actor Damian Lewis. Kirsty Young interviews actor Damian Lewis. |
| Damien Hirst | 20130512 | 20130517 | Kirsty Young's guest this week is the artist Damien Hirst. Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; his art - using sharks, maggots, butterflies, glass, formaldehyde and even sometimes paint - is not. His best known works have become iconic symbols of contemporary culture and his exhibitions and auctions attract attention the way a carcass attracts flies. Growing up in Leeds his mother was something of an early artistic influence - she had dots painted on the front door and whenever Damien said he'd finished a drawing, she'd lay another sheet of paper down and tell her son ""carry on." He once said, ""People don't like contemporary art but all art starts life as contemporary. I'm sure there were people in caves going 'I like your cave but I hate that crap you've got on the wall'." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Dan Pearson | 20150208 | 20150213 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's guest this week is the garden designer, Dan Pearson. His style is governed by a desire to create a sense of place and he is drawn to wild plants and gardens. Aged just five he discovered this passion, while building roof gardens for his collection of trolls and spent the summer watching the plant and animal life in a pond created by his father. He gave up A' levels in favour of apprenticeships at RHS Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and then spent several years working abroad, studying plants in their natural environment. His first large-scale project was creating a garden for Frances Mossman, a colleague of his mother's, who asked him to design the garden at her Northamptonshire plot. He won more clients through word of mouth and set up his own garden design company in the late 1980s. His work has since taken him all over the world and he has designed five award-winning gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show. Amongst his current projects he is creating a design for London's proposed Garden Bridge. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Daniel Kahneman | 20130811 | 20130816
20130816 (R4) | The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most influential living psychologists, his many years of study have centred on how and why we make the decisions we do. As a child, he lived in Nazi occupied France and he says that, from a young age, he already had a pretty good idea that he wanted to be an academic. He says ""My mother had a big influence... in fact I credit her with the fact that I became a psychologist... because she got me interested in people and listening to gossip. I've been fascinated by gossip ever since." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Daniel Libeskind | 20030629 | 20030704 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the architect Daniel Libeskind. Daniel Libeskind's parents were Polish Jews. Daniel himself was a prodigiously talented musician, but the family couldn't afford the attention a piano would draw to them and so he learned the accordion. In Israel he won a prestigious music scholarship - Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlmen were other recipients - and the family moved to New York. In his teens Libeskind dropped music suddenly and completely and turned to architecture: In 1989 he won the commission to build a Jewish Museum in Berlin and it opened in 2001 amid much controversy. Closer to home he has designed and built the Imperial War Museum North at Trafford, Manchester - its design based on a shattered globe to reflect the themes of conflict. One of his most controversial designs in this country is the proposed V&A extension known as The Spiral. It has been variously described as 'a public lavatory', 'a pile of boxes' and 'quartz crystals'. His most recent commission and his biggest project to date is the complex to be built at the site of the destroyed twin towers in New York. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Aria from Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: The Prisons (Le Carceri): The Complete First and Second States by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Luxury: Pencil and paper Sue Lawley's castaway is architect Daniel Libeskind Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Daniel Radcliffe, Actor | 20200315 | 20200320 (R4) | Daniel Radcliffe reached a global audience in the title role of the hugely successful Harry Potter films. He has also appeared on Broadway and in the West End, as well as in over a dozen films since the final part of the Harry Potter series was released in 2011. Born in 1989, the only child of Alan and Marcia Radcliffe, Daniel made his acting debut aged 10 in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield. The following year he was cast as Harry Potter, and he and his co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, would spend ten years filming the series. Daniel made a point of taking other roles before it had finished, and he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer’s play Equus in 2007, a role which involved prolonged full frontal nudity. Since then he has appeared on screen, on stage and on television, playing characters from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg to a cop going undercover as a neo-Nazi, and his recent films include Guns Akimbo and Escape from Pretoria. In the theatre, he is appearing in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in London. He supports the Trevor Project which works to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth and which Daniel first became aware of during the Broadway run of Equus in 2008. Daniel has been in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Erin Darke who he met on a film set in 2012. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Daniel Radcliffe, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Danielle De Niese | 20180916 | 20180921 (R4) | Danielle de Niese is a soprano who has taken starring roles with leading opera companies around the world. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Sri Lankan parents, and at the age of eight she won a national TV talent show, singing a pop medley. When she was ten, her parents moved the family to Los Angeles, so that she could pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer. She also presented a TV programme, L.A. Kids, for which she won an Emmy award at the age of 16. She made her professional operatic debut when she was 15 with the Los Angeles Opera, appeared briefly in Les Miserables on Broadway, and first performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York at the age of 19, taking the role of Barbarina in a production of The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Jonathan Miller. In 2005 she came to more widespread public attention with her performances as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, stepping into the role at the last minute when the original Cleopatra was unwell. She first appeared at the Royal Opera House in London four years later, and her international stage career now ranges from baroque operas to new works. She has also presented a number of television programmes about music. She married Gus Christie, the grandson of Glyndebourne’s founder, in 2009. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor Danielle de Niese, opera singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. She first appeared at the Royal Opera House in London four years later, and her international stage career now ranges from baroque operas to new works. She has also presented a number of television programmes about music. She married Gus Christie, the grandson of Glyndebourne's founder, in 2009. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Danny Baker | 20110731 | 20110805 | Broadcaster Danny Baker joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny Baker. He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George Burns. Despite the successes, he says he's never plotted his next career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you've only got to look at the incredible way this is all botched together and yet I don't feel that's somehow lucky when you look around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who people this business - and they're running departments. All of this is an ant-hill that somebody's kicked over, and I happen to be one of the more bumptious ants." Record: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face Book: The Most of S J Perelman Luxury: My blue suede shoes Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Danny Baker | 20110805 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny Baker. He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George Burns. Despite the successes, he says he's never plotted his next career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you've only got to look at the incredible way this is all botched together and yet I don't feel that's somehow lucky when you look around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who people this business - and they're running departments. All of this is an ant-hill that somebody's kicked over, and I happen to be one of the more bumptious ants." Record: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face Book: The Most of S J Perelman Luxury: My blue suede shoes Producer: Leanne Buckle. Broadcaster Danny Baker joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: I've Grown Accustomed to her Face |
| David Almond | 20130310 | 20130315 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer David Almond. Most of his work is for children but the adults who populate the juries of heavyweight literary prizes really like it too. The accolades began with his first novel Skellig published in 1998 when he was 47; it won the mighty ""Whitbread Children's"" award and then many others besides. Ever since, he's been acclaimed for his ability to craft complex, philosophical narratives with strikingly down to earth characterisations. He grew up just outside Newcastle in a big, Catholic family and his childhood features heavily in his stories. He says ""Each of my books has had to be written - there was something that had to come out." Producer: Alison Hughes. |
| David Baddiel | 20180527 | 20180601 (R4) | David Baddiel is a comedian and writer. Known both for his solo work and for his comedic collaborations with, among others, Rob Newman and Frank Skinner, he has also written a screenplay, a musical and several books. Born in 1964 to Jewish parents, the second of three boys, he was brought up in Dollis Hill, London. His father was a scientist from Swansea and his mother was a refugee, whose family had to flee from Nazi Germany. When David was 13, his older brother Ivor played him sketches by Derek and Clive which kindled his appetite to become a comedian. He read English at Cambridge and became vice-president of the Footlights before starting out on the London comedy circuit. Together with Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and Rob Newman, he was part of The Mary Whitehouse Experience for Radio 1 and later BBC 2. Rob and David went on to create Newman and Baddiel in Pieces, and were the first comedians to sell out Wembley Arena with a gig in 1993, prompting newspapers to declare comedy "the new rock 'n' roll". David then formed a comedy partnership with Frank Skinner and they hosted Fantasy Football League and later Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned. They co-wrote the lyrics to one of the best-known football songs, Three Lions. In 2005, David took a break from performance and concentrated on writing novels for adults and children's books as well as the script for a film, which became a musical, The Infidel. He returned to stand-up in 2013 with a show about fame. He recently mined his parents' idiosyncrasies and the rare form of dementia from which his father suffers for a stand-up show entitled My Family: Not the Sitcom. His partner is fellow comedian and writer Morwenna Banks. They have two teenage children. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. David Baddiel, comedian and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| David Beckham | 20170129 | 20170203 (R4) | David Beckham is Kirsty Young's guest as Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th Anniversary. As a professional footballer he's the only Englishman to win the league titles in England, Spain, the US and France. He spent the bulk of his career as a midfielder for Manchester United, winning the Treble - Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League - in 1999, before moving to Real Madrid in 2003. He headed to the US to play for LA Galaxy in 2007, and ended his career at Paris Saint-Germain in 2013, retiring in May that year. Born and raised in East London, the middle child of Ted and Sandra, David Beckham discovered football early and spent hours kicking a ball around at the local park with his father. At the age of seven, he played for his first team, Ridgeway Rovers, before coming to the attention of Manchester United while attending the Bobby Charlton Soccer School. He became a trainee with Manchester United in 1991, and progressed to make 265 first team appearances, winning the Premier League six times, the FA Cup twice and the UEFA Champions League once. He played for England from 1996 to 2009 and captained the side for six years. He has been married to Victoria Adams - known as Posh from the Spice Girls - since 1999 and they have four children. Since retiring from professional football in 2013, David has spent more time on his work with UNICEF which he has supported since 2005. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to former professional footballer David Beckham. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
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| David Byrne | 20180318 | 20180323 (R4) | David Byrne was a founding member of the band Talking Heads. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he emigrated first to Canada and then to the USA before the age of ten. He started playing in bands at school and, when art school didn't work out for him, he founded Talking Heads with a couple of friends. They played their first gig, opening for the Ramones, at the legendary New York club CBGB's, in June 1975. Eight studio albums later, cracks were beginning to show in the relations between band members, and by 1991 Talking Heads had officially split up. Since then, he has enjoyed a solo career, and also made films, published photographic books, composed scores for musicals, created art installations and written books. He has received an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, as well as a Golden Globe and a Grammy, for his soundtrack to the 1987 film The Last Emperor. He and his fellow Talking Heads members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. He lives in New York and has a daughter in her late twenties from his 17 year marriage to Adelle Lutz. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. David Byrne, musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| David Davis | 20081116 | 20081121 | Kirsty Young invites David Davis MP to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites David Davis MP to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
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| David Mcvicar | 20081005 | 20081010 | Kirsty Young invites the opera director David McVicar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the opera director David McVicar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| David Mitchell | 20090719 | 20090724 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. He has won two Bafta awards and, as a sitcom actor, sketch show writer and humorous columnist, has never been in greater demand. But as a child he was sure he wasn't funny and it was only when he was at university, he says, that he learnt how to have fun. It is now just the rest of his life that he needs to address - beginning, he says, by tidying up his flat and then, maybe, even getting a girlfriend. But as a child he was sure he wasn't funny and it was only when he was at university, he says, that he learnt how to have fun. It is now just the rest of his life that he needs to address - beginning, he says, by tidying up his flat and then, maybe, even getting a girlfriend. |
| David Mitchell | 20090724 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. |
| David Mitchell, Novelist | 20201113 | 20210103 (R4) | David Mitchell has published eight novels, two of which – number9dream and Cloud Atlas – have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also translated two books on autism from Japanese, working with his Japanese wife: their son is on the autistic spectrum. While his work also includes writing for the screen and opera libretti, his main occupation has been, as one critic put it, “quietly pottering away at the frontier of fiction” for more than two decades. David is the son of two artists, and grew up near the Malverns, where his father worked in the art department of the Royal Worcester porcelain factory. After studying at the University of Kent, he worked in a bookshop, and moved to Japan in the mid-1990s to teach English. Here he met his wife and put his mind to writing. His first two novels were published while still living in Hiroshima. With each standalone novel, David is also adding to what he calls an uber-novel in which all of his books are part of a larger narrative, with characters flitting from one story to another, transported to a different time and place, but bringing a familiarity and a backstory with them. He now lives in County Cork, Ireland, with his wife and two children. DISC ONE: Sunset by Kate Bush
DISC TWO: Requiem Op. 33b, For Mixed Choir A Cappela / Fyrir Blandadan Kór A Capella.
Performed by Motet Choir Of The Hallgrím's Church, chorus Master: Hörður Áskelsson
DISC THREE: Mercury by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhli, James McAlister
DISC FOUR: Un Dia De Noviembre by Zsofia Boros
DISC FIVE: Anima by Milton Nascimento
DISC SIX: Stylo by Gorillaz, featuring Bobby Womack and Mos Def
DISC SEVEN: In a Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
DISC EIGHT: Sonata in F minor, K466, composed by Domenico Scarlatti, performed by
Yevgeny Sudbin BOOK CHOICE: A book of Chinese characters (Kanji)
LUXURY ITEM: A complete archive of Desert Island Discs
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Anima by Milton Nascimento Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Sarah Taylor. David Mitchell, novelist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| David Nott | 20160605 | 20160610 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews vascular and war surgeon David Nott. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. , vascular and war surgeon, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, David Nott. He works across three London hospitals performing general, vascular, trauma and reconstructive surgery. In addition, for the past two decades, he's spent several weeks every year working in conflict zones around the world for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Born in Carmarthen, Wales, he was brought up by his grandparents until he was four while his parents finished their training - his Welsh mother became a nurse, his Indo-Burmese father an orthopaedic surgeon. He studied medicine at St Andrews University and completed his medical and surgical training in Manchester and Liverpool before becoming a consultant general and vascular surgeon working in London. He first volunteered to go into a war zone in 1993 when he travelled to Sarajevo. Since then he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Chad, Haiti, Yemen, Nepal and Syria. In 2016 he and his wife, Elly, set up the David Nott Foundation, a charity which funds the training of local doctors to work in conflict zones and hostile environments. David Nott, vascular & war surgeon, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
He works across three London hospitals performing general, vascular, trauma & reconstructive surgery. In addition, for the past two decades, he's spent several weeks every year working in conflict zones around the world for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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| David Olusoga, Historian And Broadcaster | 20210110 | 20210115 (R4) | David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster who has presented a range of programmes including the BBC’s A House Through Time and Civilisations. He is currently professor of public history at Manchester University. Born in Lagos, the second child to a Nigerian father and a British mother, David was brought up by his mother in Gateshead after his parents’ marriage broke down. As a child he and his siblings experienced sustained racism and he remembers school as a place of violence and cruelty. He credits his mother’s tenacity and her determination to educate her children for his later success in getting to university and establishing a career in television. His love of history developed from a young age, thanks to one of his teachers who taught him why an understanding of history matters. Watching television documentaries also opened up a world of possibility and David fondly recalls programmes from the 1980s presented by the historian Michael Wood, who made history seem cool in the eyes of the young schoolboy glued to the TV in his Gateshead council house. Last year David delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival in which he talked candidly about his loneliness at being the only black person on a production team and the difficulties he had trying to explain the racial implications of how, for example, people in Africa were often portrayed on screen. DISC ONE: Zombie by Fela Kuti
DISC TWO: Roll on Buddy by Aunt Molly Jackson
DISC THREE: Black Mountain Blues by Bessie Smith
DISC FOUR: Just The Other Day by Dr Alimantado
DISC FIVE: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson
DISC SIX: Last Kind Words by Geeshie Wiley
DISC SEVEN: You Can't Blame The Youth (Live At The Record Plant '73) by Bob Marley & The Wailers
DISC EIGHT: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You’ve Got a Friend by Aretha Franklin BOOK CHOICE: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-40
LUXURY ITEM: Acoustic guitar
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley Historian David Olusoga shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: Guests share what they would take to a desert island |
| David Sainsbury | 20040201 | 20040206 | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is David Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, one of Britain's richest men, who was a multi-millionaire in his twenties. He has combined his career at Sainsbury's with a passion for politics, and he's worked to improve the links between scientific research at universities and industry. He makes his pick of the eight records he'd take to Radio 4's famous desert island. |
| David Starkey | 20050206 | 20050211 | Sue Lawley invites the historian David Starkey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the historian David Starkey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| David Suchet | 20090208 | 20090213 | Kirsty Young invites the actor David Suchet to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the actor David Suchet to choose eight records. |
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| David Tennant | 20091227 | 20100101 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. He has been voted the best Dr Who ever and has redefined the Time Lord for a generation of parents and children. As a child he was a huge fan of the programme; he reckons he only ever missed one episode, wore a long stripy scarf and queued up to meet Tom Baker and get his autograph. As a role, he says, it appealed not just to his adult self but to the eight-year-old boy who was just below the surface (Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs). As a child he was a huge fan of the programme; he reckons he only ever missed one episode, wore a long stripy scarf and queued up to meet Tom Baker and get his autograph. As a role, he says, it appealed not just to his adult self but to the eight-year-old boy who was just below the surface. ![]()
He has been voted the best Dr Who ever and has redefined the Time Lord for a generation of parents and children. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. |
| David Tennant | 20100101 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. |
| David Walliams | 20090222 | 20090227 | Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose eight records. |
| David Walliams | 20090227 | | Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites comedian David Walliams to choose eight records. |
| Davina Mccall | 20161211 | 20161216 (R4) | Davina McCall, TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Producer: Sarah Taylor. is an English television presenter. She began her career on MTV before moving to Channel 4 with the cult hit Streetmate. She was the presenter of Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 2000 and 2010 and enjoyed it so much that she planned her family around the transmission schedule. All three of her children were born in September. Davina hosts a variety of prime time and popular programmes including ITV's Long Lost Family which seeks to reunite family members. Her own childhood was complicated. Her French mother was an alcoholic and drug user, and Davina was largely brought up by her father and grandparents. After a difficult childhood, she moved to London with her father and step-mother, and during some wild teenage years, she became a drug user. She has been clean since she was 25. Alongside her television presenting career, she has a large following with her fitness DVDs and healthy food cookbooks. In 2014, she undertook a 500 mile triathlon for Sport Relief raising more than two million pounds. 
Davina McCall is an English television presenter. She began her career on MTV before moving to Channel 4 with the cult hit Streetmate. Davina hosts a variety of prime time and popular programmes including ITV's Long Lost Family which seeks to reunite family members. In 2014, she undertook a 500 mile triathlon for Sport Relief raising more than two million pounds. is an English television presenter. She began her career on MTV before moving to Channel 4 with the cult hit Streetmate. |
| Dawn French | 20121223 | 20121228 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dawn French. Her career started back when dungarees were considered a legitimate fashion choice and she's built her reputation on borderline surreal skits and glowingly warm characterisations. Brought up in a forces family she had to move schools a lot and found making people laugh helped to make them her friends. Since then it's made her a household name and she may be moments away from becoming a 'national treasure'. Double act partner, sit-com star, sketch show performer, writer, actor, Dawn has made us laugh for years. So does she ever feel overwhelmed by people's expectations? She says ""I tell myself that I'm the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do.... I am the sort of person who writes a book - so I do"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to comedian, actress and writer Dawn French. Kirsty Young talks to comedian, actress and writer Dawn French. |
| Debbie Harry | 20110522 | 20110527 | Singer Debbie Harry, whose group Blondie sold more than thirty million albums, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Blondie singer Debbie Harry joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Debbie Harry. Her group Blondie started out in seedy New York bars and went on to achieve international success - selling tens of millions of albums along the way. She was ultra cool - a striking beauty with platinum hair and a sneer. Now aged 65, her trademark look continues to serve her well, she says: "As far as ageing goes it's rough - I try my best - I'm healthy and I exercise like a fiend. I'm glad that I've had all the radical experiences in my life - it suits me." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Debbie Harry | 20110527 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Debbie Harry. Her group Blondie started out in seedy New York bars and went on to achieve international success - selling tens of millions of albums along the way. She was ultra cool - a striking beauty with platinum hair and a sneer. Now aged 65, her trademark look continues to serve her well, she says: "As far as ageing goes it's rough - I try my best - I'm healthy and I exercise like a fiend. I'm glad that I've had all the radical experiences in my life - it suits me." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Blondie singer Debbie Harry joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Debbie Wiseman | 20141019 | 20141024 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews the composer Debbie Wiseman. Her work is wide ranging, but her talents are most often employed in crafting lyrical, melodic scores for film and TV. Her credits include Land Girls, Judge John Deed, Haunted and Father Brown. Now a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music, her unlikely introduction to the piano came at the age of 8 when she found a bashed up old instrument sitting in the corner of a hotel dining room. Producer: Isabel Sargent. Kirsty Young talks to composer Debbie Wiseman. Producer: Isabel Sargent. |
| Deborah Bull | 20130526 | 20130531 | Kirsty Young's guest this week is the ballerina, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull. The Royal Ballet, where she was a principal dancer for almost two decades owes a debt of gratitude to the Janice Sutton School of Dance in Skegness. It was there, aged 7, two floors above a fish and chip shop and a row of amusements arcades - and having practiced ""good toes, bad toes"" - that she knew precisely what she wanted to do with her life. After many years of success at the top of her profession, she said goodbye to her childhood dream and jetéd into her life's next act - for a time serving as Creative Director of The Royal Opera House and more recently working far beyond Covent Garden promoting creativity and cultural partnerships across Britain. She says ""I always thought I'd feel a passionate sense of loss when I stopped dancing. What was absolutely wonderful was, as the volume turned up on the new career, the volume turned down on the old one." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Demis Hassabis | 20170521 | 20170526 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Dr Demis Hassabis. An artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, he is also a neuroscientist, a computer games designer, an entrepreneur, and in his youth, a world-class chess player. Born in 1976, he was introduced to chess aged four and, by the age of twelve, was the world's second-highest ranked player for his age. With his winnings, he bought himself a PC and taught himself to code. After taking his A Levels two years early, before going to university he worked on one of the most successful computer games of the 1990s, Theme Park. He graduated from Cambridge with a double first, and returned to the computer games industry, founding his own company in his early twenties. His passion had long been artificial intelligence and he says everything he's done has been part of a long-term plan to "solve intelligence" and then use intelligence "to solve everything else". He gained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience where he deliberately chose to study topics where AI had failed so far: memory and imagination. After stints at MIT and Harvard, he co-founded his company in 2010, which was then acquired by Google in January 2014. In March 2016 their computer programme, AlphaGo, beat a world champion Go player at the game having taught itself how to play through a combination of two techniques - deep learning and reinforcement learning. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Demis Hassabis, AI expert, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Demis Hassabis | 20170526 | | , AI expert, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway is Dr Demis Hassabis. An artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, he is also a neuroscientist, a computer games designer, an entrepreneur, and in his youth, a world-class chess player. Born in 1976, he was introduced to chess aged four and, by the age of twelve, was the world's second-highest ranked player for his age. With his winnings, he bought himself a PC and taught himself to code. After taking his A Levels two years early, before going to university he worked on one of the most successful computer games of the 1990s, Theme Park. He graduated from Cambridge with a double first, and returned to the computer games industry, founding his own company in his early twenties. His passion had long been artificial intelligence and he says everything he's done has been part of a long-term plan to "solve intelligence" and then use intelligence "to solve everything else". He gained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience where he deliberately chose to study topics where AI had failed so far: memory and imagination. After stints at MIT and Harvard, he co-founded his company in 2010, which was then acquired by Google in January 2014. In March 2016 their computer programme, AlphaGo, beat a world champion Go player at the game having taught itself how to play through a combination of two techniques - deep learning and reinforcement learning. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Demis Hassabis, AI expert, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Denise Lewis | 20120205 | 20120210 | Kirsty Young talks to Denise Lewis. Denise Lewis, Olympic gold medallist, is Kirsty Young's castaway. Her discipline was the heptathlon and it was at the 2000 Sydney Olympics that she leapt, threw, sprinted and hurdled her way on to the winner's podium. An only child of a single mother, she says her mum had always had ambition for her - and was there to witness her success. She said: "Her face said it all, there were tears in her eyes and for me it felt like, yes mum, we've done it together". Producer: Leanne Buckle. Denise Lewis, Olympic medallist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| Denise Lewis | 20120210 | | Denise Lewis, Olympic gold medallist, is Kirsty Young's castaway. Her discipline was the heptathlon and it was at the 2000 Sydney Olympics that she leapt, threw, sprinted and hurdled her way on to the winner's podium. An only child of a single mother, she says her mum had always had ambition for her - and was there to witness her success. She said: "Her face said it all, there were tears in her eyes and for me it felt like, yes mum, we've done it together". Producer: Leanne Buckle. Denise Lewis, Olympic medallist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Denise Robertson | 20120527 | 20120601
20120601 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the agony aunt and writer Denise Robertson. She is, she says, one of life's survivors -- yet she seems to have had more than her fair share of tragedy; she's been widowed twice, dealt with financial hardship and lost a child to cancer. She's written dozens of novels and for more than forty years been an agony aunt on local radio, papers and television. She says: ""There have been times when I've thought, just as I get things right, fate steps in and kicks the steps from under me. But then you pick yourself up again. When I started out, there used to be a joke, that one day I'd open a letter without saying, 'Oh I remember when that happened to me'." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Derek Brown | 20030525 | 20030530 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Derek Brown the Director of the Michelin Red Guides which are the French bible for restaurants. The original Guide was invented in 1900 to help travellers in France find good food at reasonable prices. These days the annual publication always creates a stir with restaurateurs and gourmands alike, all waiting on tenterhooks to see who has been awarded the prestigious Michelin stars - or who has had them taken away. In recent years some high profile chefs have created controversy by sending back their stars, although Brown says the stars don't belong to the chefs but are awarded to the restaurant itself and judged purely on the experience of the meal on the day. Derek Brown himself comes from a middle-class Portsmouth family and his first ambition was to be a history teacher. After spending a summer earning pocket money as a waiter he realised that hotel management was his path in life and cherished a dream of owning his own hotel. At twenty-seven he saw an advert for Michelin inspectors and gradually worked his way up to the top job. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 2nd Movement of Symphony No.7 in A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Luxury: A steamer chair Sue Lawley's castaway is director of the Michelin Red Guides Derek Brown Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Derren Brown, Illusionist | 20190526 | 20190531 (R4) | Derren Brown, illusionist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Derren Brown, illusionist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. |
| Desmond Morris | 20041003 | 20041008 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is zoologist Desmond Morris, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is zoologist Desmond Morris, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is zoologist Desmond Morris, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rpt of Sun, 11.15am] |
| Diana Athill | 20040620 | 20040625 | Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill. Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Doreen Lawrence | 20120610 | 20120615
20120615 (R4) | Campaigner Doreen Lawrence is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Doreen Lawrence. The life she thought was hers ended when her son Stephen was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in London in 1993. In the years since, her campaigning has resulted in a shift in public attitudes, laws being changed and policing methods overhauled. She set up a charity in her son's memory and has been awarded an OBE for services to community relations. She says: ""My son was special and I think, what happened to him, I just wanted everyone to know and learn about him - but all the other things, the OBE, I'd swap all of that just to have my son back. When your children are young you take them for granted, because you think they're going to be there forever." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Dorothy Byrne, Journalist | 20200301 | 20200306 (R4) | Dorothy Byrne is the head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4, and has worked in journalism for more than four decades. In 2018 she received the Outstanding Contribution Award at Royal Television Society Journalism Awards, and her recent commissions include the Channel 4 News investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the Michael Jackson expose Leaving Neverland and the BAFTA-winning documentary For Sama, about one family’s life under siege in Aleppo, which also won an Oscar nomination. She began her career in journalism in her mid 20s on the Waltham Forest Guardian, after writing a cheeky letter to 50 local newspaper editors - just one responded. She later moved into television, joining the acclaimed World in Action team at Granada, where she argued that the programme's agenda was male-dominated and needed to change. Dorothy gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the 2019 Edinburgh International Television Festival, in which she argued that the scrutiny of politicians through broadcast interviews is important for the health of democracy. She also described herself as 'just about the oldest female TV executive working for a broadcaster'. DISC ONE: Greatest Living Creature by John Grant
DISC TWO: Non-Alignment Pact by Per Ubu
DISC THREE: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, composed by George Frideric Handel, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and performed by Dame Joan Sutherland and London Symphony Orchestra
DISC FOUR: Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense by Fela Kuti
DISC FIVE: Dido's Lament: When I'm Laid In Earth, composed by Hendry Purcell, conducted by Raymond Leppard and performed by Jessye Norman and English Chamber Orchestra
DISC SIX: World in Action by Matt Berry
DISC EIGHT: The People United Will Never Be Defeated by Igor Levit BOOK CHOICE: Physics text books
LUXURY ITEM: The back catalogue of In Our Time / the voice of Melvyn Bragg
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, composed by George Frideric Handel, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult and performed by Dame Joan Sutherland and London Symphony Orchestra Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Dorothy Byrne, journalist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Doug Allan | 20140720 | 20140725 |  Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Doug Allan is Kirsty's castaway this week. He's spent thirty-five years capturing unique footage of animals in some of the most remote and least hospitable places on earth. If you've watched fuzzy little polar bear cubs frolic in the frozen wilderness or slick killer whales eerily circling their prey, the spellbinding footage is his. David Attenborough, a long- time collaborator describes his work, simply, as ""extraordinary"". A trained biologist he first made a living diving into the icy rivers of Scotland searching among the mussel-beds for pearls; a useful early lesson in patience and coping with the cold. His subsequent dedication to a working life in the wilderness has bagged him a slew of Baftas and Emmys but there's also been an emotional toll - he's coped with periods of depression and is twice divorced. He says, ""Big animals are my passion. I particularly love working with large mammals because they're intelligent and you can develop a relationship with them" And he's at his happiest at -18 degrees centigrade! Doug Allan is Kirsty's castaway this week. |
| Dr Bill Frankland | 20150809 | 20150814 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dr Bill Frankland. Frequently referred to as the ""grandfather of allergy"", his achievements include the introduction of the pollen count to the British public and the prediction of increased levels of allergy to penicillin. Born in Cumbria in 1912, Dr Frankland turned 103 in March. He studied medicine at Oxford and worked at St Mary's hospital in Paddington, London, before war intervened. He signed up to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), but spent over three of the six years he spent in the army as a prisoner of war in Singapore. After the war, he began work in the dermatology department at St Mary's, but quickly switched to allergy which became his passion. During the fifties he served as a registrar to Alexander Fleming who had discovered penicillin back in 1928. In 1954 he published a seminal research paper about a double-blind randomised trial proving that pre-season pollen injections greatly reduced the symptoms of hay fever sufferers. He has treated high profile patients including Saddam Hussein and given evidence in court - possibly the oldest expert witness to do so. He continues to work in a private practice and has remarked, ""I really don't know what people do when they retire at 65."". 
Frequently referred to as the ""grandfather of allergy"", his achievements include the introduction of the pollen count to the British public and the prediction of increased levels of allergy to penicillin. After the war, he began work in the dermatology department at St Mary's, but quickly switched to allergy which became his passion. During the fifties he served as a registrar to Alexander Fleming who had discovered penicillin back in 1928. In 1954 he published a seminal research paper about a double-blind randomised trial proving that pre-season pollen injections greatly reduced the symptoms of hay fever sufferers. He has treated high profile patients including Saddam Hussein and given evidence in court - possibly the oldest expert witness to do so. He continues to work in a private practice and has remarked, ""I really don't know what people do when they retire at 65."". |
| Dr Dame Sue Ion | 20160306 | 20160311 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the nuclear engineer and scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and nuclear scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. The first woman to be awarded the highly prestigious President's Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering, she has worked her way to the heart of an industry that remains very contentious. Her passion for understanding how and why the world works the way it does first began as she tinkered for hours at her parents' kitchen table with a little chemistry set. Today she goes into schools to encourage more girls to take up engineering and her enthusiasm for the subject has galvanised many to take up the discipline. Producer: Paula McGinley. Kirsty Young's castaway is the nuclear engineer and scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. 
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| Dr Gwen Adshead | 20100611 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the consultant forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. She is among the leaders in a very specialised field - trying to understand, and treat, the behaviour of the most vilified people in society. Her office lies behind the towering walls of Broadmoor Hospital - the Victorian institution which is home to more than 200 men, all people who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous behaviour. She also works with young offenders, supports crime victims and writes academic papers - she's currently working on a book about the nature of evil. Of her work, she says: Other people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a psychiatrist."". Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead."". Kirsty Young's castaway is the consultant forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. She is among the leaders in a very specialised field - trying to understand, and treat, the behaviour of the most vilified people in society. Her office lies behind the towering walls of Broadmoor Hospital - the Victorian institution which is home to more than 200 men, all people who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous behaviour. She also works with young offenders, supports crime victims and writes academic papers - she's currently working on a book about the nature of evil. Of her work, she says: "Other people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a psychiatrist.". Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. ![]()
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| Dr Gwen Adshead | 20100711 | 20100716 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. A consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, it is her job to try to understand the behaviour of some of the most villified people in our society. The Victorian institution in Berkshire is home to more than two hundred men; all people who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous violent behaviour. Her life outside work seems impossibly normal - bringing up her children, singing in a choir and gardening fill her spare time. Of her work, she says: "Other people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a psychiatrist." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young's castaway is consultant forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. A consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, it is her job to try to understand the behaviour of some of the most villified people in our society. The Victorian institution in Berkshire is home to more than two hundred men; all people who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous violent behaviour. Her life outside work seems impossibly normal - bringing up her children, singing in a choir and gardening fill her spare time. Of her work, she says: "Other people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a psychiatrist." |
| Dr Gwen Adshead | 20100716 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is consultant forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. |
| Dr Kevin Fong | 20170806 | 20170811
20170811 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Dr. Kevin Fong. He is a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital London, and an expert on space medicine. He is a senior lecturer in Physiology at UCL and the co-director of the Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine.
Born to parents who had come to the UK from Mauritius, he grew up in London. His parents put great emphasis on education - which they had both missed out on in their youth.
Kevin's first degree was in astrophysics and he went on to study medicine.
He has combined his love of space with medicine and has spent time working at the Johnson Space Centre in the US.
He has been a consultant anaesthetist since 2010, but has kept pursuing his interests in extreme environments from space to altitude and depth. He has made many television documentaries about his field of interest and gave the 2015 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.Producer: Sarah Taylor. Dr Kevin Fong is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Dr Kevin Fong | 20170811 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway is Dr. Kevin Fong. He is a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital London, and an expert on space medicine. He is a senior lecturer in Physiology at UCL and the co-director of the Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine.
Born to parents who had come to the UK from Mauritius, he grew up in London. His parents put great emphasis on education - which they had both missed out on in their youth.
Kevin's first degree was in astrophysics and he went on to study medicine.
He has combined his love of space with medicine and has spent time working at the Johnson Space Centre in the US.
He has been a consultant anaesthetist since 2010, but has kept pursuing his interests in extreme environments from space to altitude and depth. He has made many television documentaries about his field of interest and gave the 2015 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Dr Kevin Fong is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Dr Robert Langer | 20161016 | 20161021 (R4) | Dr Robert Langer, scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Dr Robert Langer. Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the most cited engineer in history, and was awarded the prestigious US medals of both Science and of Technology and Innovation. A pioneer of many new technologies including controlled release drug delivery systems and nanotechnology, Langer is also regarded as the founder of tissue engineering in regenerative medicine where synthetic structures are used to provide the scaffolding on which new skin, muscle, bone and potentially entire organs can be grown. Born in Albany, New York, in 1948, Langer's interest in science was kindled by the Gilbert chemistry, microscope and building sets he was given as birthday presents by his parents. He studied chemical engineering at Cornell University before getting his Doctor of Science from MIT in 1974. His enthusiasm wasn't fired up by the many job offers from oil companies he received, preferring to apply to work in the medical sector. After many unsuccessful applications, he was hired by Dr Judah Folkman, a surgeon at Harvard, who tasked Langer with isolating a compound to restrict blood vessel growth in order to stop a tumour from growing. His work at the interface of medicine and engineering led to him being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2015. He attributes his success to ""a combination of stubbornness, risk taking, perhaps being reasonably smart and wanting to do good"". Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. 
, scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Dr Robert Langer. Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the most cited engineer in history, and was awarded the prestigious US medals of both Science and of Technology and Innovation. A pioneer of many new technologies including controlled release drug delivery systems and nanotechnology, Langer is also regarded as the founder of tissue engineering in regenerative medicine where synthetic structures are used to provide the scaffolding on which new skin, muscle, bone and potentially entire organs can be grown. Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. |
| Dr Sue Black | 20180520 | 20180525 (R4) | Dr. Sue Black is a computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She was instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the home of vital codebreaking during the second world war. Currently an honorary professor at UCL, she founded BCS Women for women in science and the social enterprise Tech Mums, which teaches parents about computing. She is also on an advisory board for the government's digital services. Born in Fareham, Hampshire, she was 12 when her mother died of a brain haemorrhage. She left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16, and by the age of 20 she was the mother of three children. She returned to education by taking a maths access course at night school which led to a degree in computing from London South Bank University in 1993. She gained a PhD in software engineering in 2001 and became a lecturer. She was Head of Department of Computing Science at the University of Westminster before leaving in 2012 to become a technology evangelist. In 2016 She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to for services to technology. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Dr Sue Black, computer scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Born in Fareham, Hampshire, she was 12 when her mother died of a brain haemorrhage. She left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16, and by the age of 20 she was the mother of three children. She returned to education by taking a maths access course at night school which led to a degree in computing from South Bank University in 1993. She gained a PhD in software engineering in 2001 and became a lecturer. She was Head of Department of Computing Science at the University of Westminster before leaving in 2012 to become a technology evangelist. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Born in Fareham, Hampshire, she was 12 when her mother died of a brain haemorrhage. She left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16, and by the age of 20 she was the mother of three children. She returned to education by taking a maths access course at night school which led to a degree in computing from London South Bank University in 1993. She gained a PhD in software engineering in 2001 and became a lecturer. She was Head of Department of Computing Science at the University of Westminster before leaving in 2012 to become a technology evangelist. |
| Duncan Bannatyne | 20100314 | 20100319 | Kirsty Young's castaway is entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne. He made his name appearing on the TV show Dragons' Den as a no-nonsense investor with an eye for the bottom line. He made his fortune in nursing homes, health clubs and hotels. Quite something, given that aged 30 he was a deck chair attendant who had been thrown out of the Royal Navy for attempting to throw his commanding officer overboard. He says, 'When you've got a criminal record, no qualifications, no references, the best option is starting your own business - because no one can stop you.'. He made his name appearing on the TV show Dragons' Den as a no-nonsense investor with an eye for the bottom line. He made his fortune in nursing homes, health clubs and hotels. Quite something, given that aged 30 he was a deck chair attendant who had been thrown out of the Royal Navy for attempting to throw his commanding officer overboard. He says, 'When you've got a criminal record, no qualifications, no references, the best option is starting your own business - because no one can stop you.'. ![]()
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| Duncan Bannatyne | 20100319 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne. |
| Dustin Hoffman | 20121202 | 20121207 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dustin Hoffman. In spite of his Aunt Pearl telling him he wasn't good looking enough to be an actor for the past forty-five years he's been crafting landmark movie performances. He is that rare and apparently contradictory thing - a character actor and a superstar. The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, All The President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer v Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag The Dog, and Last Chance Harvey are just a handful of the movies that contribute to an unparalleled body of work: he is the only actor in history to have top billing in three films that won Best Picture Oscars. Now in his mid-70s he is making his directorial debut. He says ""I'm always fighting to break through... I'm trying to show you the part of me that wants to love, wants to kill, that wants to find my way out, that feels there is no way out." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Hollywood film star Dustin Hoffman is interviewed by Kirsty Young In spite of his Aunt Pearl telling him he wasn't good looking enough to be an actor for the past forty-five years he's been crafting landmark movie performances. He is that rare and apparently contradictory thing - a character actor and a superstar. The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, All The President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer v Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag The Dog, and Last Chance Harvey are just a handful of the movies that contribute to an unparalleled body of work: he is the only actor in history to have top billing in three films that won Best Picture Oscars. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dustin Hoffman. |
| Ed Sheeran | 20170507 | 20170512 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Ed Sheeran. His songs have brought him two Grammys, four Brit awards and global success. Shortly after the release of his latest album, Divide, tracks from it occupied nine of the top 10 places in the UK singles chart. Born into a creative family, Ed had piano and cello lessons as a youngster and briefly sang in a local church choir. At the age of 11, seeing Eric Clapton play Layla on TV at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert inspired him to take up the guitar. Ten years later, Ed himself was performing at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert. Ed left school and home at 16 to focus on playing gigs in London. Despite relentless performing he failed to secure a recording contract and decided to try his luck in America. During a successful stint performing in Los Angeles, he came to the attention of the Academy Award-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx, and within months of returning to the UK he'd signed a record deal. His first single, The A Team, became a top ten hit around the world and won him an Ivor Novello award, and his second and third albums topped the UK and US charts. In 2015 he performed at Wembley Stadium as a solo artist for three nights to capacity crowds, and this year he is headlining the Pyramid stage on the final night of Glastonbury. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Ed Sheeran | 20170512 | | Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Ed Sheeran. His songs have brought him two Grammys, four Brit awards and global success. Shortly after the release of his latest album, Divide, tracks from it occupied nine of the top 10 places in the UK singles chart. Born into a creative family, Ed had piano and cello lessons as a youngster and briefly sang in a local church choir. At the age of 11, seeing Eric Clapton play Layla on TV at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert inspired him to take up the guitar. Ten years later, Ed himself was performing at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert. Ed left school and home at 16 to focus on playing gigs in London. Despite relentless performing he failed to secure a recording contract and decided to try his luck in America. During a successful stint performing in Los Angeles, he came to the attention of the Academy Award-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx, and within months of returning to the UK he'd signed a record deal. His first single, The A Team, became a top ten hit around the world and won him an Ivor Novello award, and his second and third albums topped the UK and US charts. In 2015 he performed at Wembley Stadium as a solo artist for three nights to capacity crowds, and this year he is headlining the Pyramid stage on the final night of Glastonbury. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Edmund De Waal | 20121125 | 20121130 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and author, Edmund de Waal. His ceramics are on display in many of the world's major museums. They're delicate pots in shades of white and cream, informed he says by a great deal of thinking about literature. His written work has also won him several awards; his book ""The Hare With Amber Eyes"" traces the rich and dramatic story of his family's Russian Jewish heritage and the diaspora in Odessa, Paris, Vienna, and Tokyo. He says, ""I make pots and I write. I'm not one of those people who by mistake became a potter or by mistake is a writer - they are both completely entwined." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and author, Edmund de Waal. His ceramics are on display in many of the world's major museums. They're delicate pots in shades of white and cream, informed he says by a great deal of thinking about literature. Ceramic artist Edmund de Waal is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Edna Adan Ismail | 20171022 | 20171027 (R4) | Edna Adan Ismail is a midwife and campaigner. As a 12 year old growing up in British Somaliland, her dream was to build her own hospital. It took her some 50 years and all her savings to realise her ambition, and the state of the art hospital she built is a testament to her passion and dogged determination. Nursing and midwifery have been her life since she won a scholarship to study in the UK in the mid-1950s, when she cycled to appointments in her black raincoat to deliver babies all around London. Married at one time to the prime minister of Somalia, she juggled the high profile role of First Lady with shifts at her local hospital. "I was born with this desire to fix things," she says. As her country's first female foreign minister, she broke deep-rooted taboos by publicly condemning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation - FGM. Her opposition stems from personal experience - she was only eight years old when she endured the invasive procedure herself. Now 80, she lives on site at her beloved hospital, where more than 22,000 babies have been born since it opened in 2002. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Paula McGinley. Campaigner Edna Adan Ismail is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young interviews Edna Adan Ismail, former foreign minister of Somaliland. Kirsty Young interviews Edna Adan Ismail, former foreign minister of Somaliland." |
| Edna Adan Ismail | 20171027 | | Campaigner Edna Adan Ismail is interviewed by Kirsty Young.Edna Adan Ismail is a midwife and campaigner. As a 12 year old growing up in British Somaliland, her dream was to build her own hospital. It took her some 50 years and all her savings to realise her ambition, and the state of the art hospital she built is a testament to her passion and dogged determination. Nursing and midwifery have been her life since she won a scholarship to study in the UK in the mid-1950s, when she cycled to appointments in her black raincoat to deliver babies all around London. Married at one time to the prime minister of Somalia, she juggled the high profile role of First Lady with shifts at her local hospital. "I was born with this desire to fix things," she says. As her country's first female foreign minister, she broke deep-rooted taboos by publicly condemning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation - FGM. Her opposition stems from personal experience - she was only eight years old when she endured the invasive procedure herself. Now 80, she lives on site at her beloved hospital, where more than 22,000 babies have been born since it opened in 2002. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Edna O'brien | 20070114 | 20070119
20070119 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Edna O'Brien. Described as a 'poet of heartbreak' her lyrical storytelling captures the fragility and pain of the human condition, reflecting the drama of her own life as much as the imagined journeys of her characters. She was born and raised in a small village in County Clare, where the only books in the house were prayer books which sat alongside her father's bloodstock magazines. Her mother thought writing was in essence sinful and tried fiercely to stop her becoming an author. She was living in England when she published her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960. It was a huge hit and was critically well received - but in Ireland she was decried and her book was burnt in the streets. Although she's lived in London for most of her adult life, she continues to draw on her Irish background for inspiration - she says: "it's in my roots, and when I dream at night it's the place I go". [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Foggy Dew (Sinead O'Connor) by The Chieftains
Book: Ulysses by James Joyce
Luxury: Vault of a very good white wine Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Edna O'Brien Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites author Edna O'Brien to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. author Edna O'brien Kirsty Young invites author Edna O'Brien to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Elif Shafak | 20170528 | 20170602 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Elif Shafak has published ten novels and several volumes of non-fiction and her work is translated into 47 languages. She is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey today. Born in 1971, she was raised by a single working mother and also, for the first ten years of her life, by her grandmother in Ankara. Her mother's job as a diplomat led to a move to Madrid when Elif was ten years old - and so began a peripatetic life which has taken her to places as diverse as Jordan and Germany, the United States and finally to London where she has lived for the past seven years. Elif wrote her first novels in Turkish, but began writing in English shortly after the start of the new millennium. English, she says, has given her a new freedom to write about sensitive issues in Turkey. Her books draw on diverse cultures and reflect her interest in history, philosophy, spiritualism and Sufism. One commentator has said of her work: "Stepping into the writing of this Turkish-born author for the first time is like breaking through the back of a children's wardrobe and walking into a whole new multicultural world of lives and histories - and, above all, fabulous stories." She is a regular columnist both for English as well as Turkish papers and also writes lyrics for rock musicians. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Elif Shafak is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Elif Shafak | 20170602 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Elif Shafak has published ten novels and several volumes of non-fiction and her work is translated into 47 languages. She is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey today. Born in 1971, she was raised by a single working mother and also, for the first ten years of her life, by her grandmother in Ankara. Her mother's job as a diplomat led to a move to Madrid when Elif was ten years old - and so began a peripatetic life which has taken her to places as diverse as Jordan and Germany, the United States and finally to London where she has lived for the past seven years. Elif wrote her first novels in Turkish, but began writing in English shortly after the start of the new millennium. English, she says, has given her a new freedom to write about sensitive issues in Turkey. Her books draw on diverse cultures and reflect her interest in history, philosophy, spiritualism and Sufism. One commentator has said of her work: "Stepping into the writing of this Turkish-born author for the first time is like breaking through the back of a children's wardrobe and walking into a whole new multicultural world of lives and histories - and, above all, fabulous stories." She is a regular columnist both for English as well as Turkish papers and also writes lyrics for rock musicians. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Elif Shafak is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Emily Eavis, Festival Organiser | 20190623 | 20190628 (R4) | Emily Eavis is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival. Together with her husband and her father, she masterminds the booking of bands and oversees the setting up of what is the largest greenfield festival in the world. The site itself becomes the size of Oxford town centre once it’s built and rigged, and when tickets for 2019 went on sale, they sold out within 36 minutes. Born in 1979, she was a small child when her parents, Jean and Michael, were inspired to make the Glastonbury Festival an annual event, although she wasn’t keen on the yearly invasion of the family farm. By her late teens, however, she had changed her views. She left Worthy Farm to study to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College in London but when, at the end of her first year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Emily left and went home to help look after her and to help her father run that year’s festival. Emily never went back to university. Motivated by a visit to Haiti to look at Oxfam projects, she spent a few years in London putting on charity gigs, before returning home to work with her father running the festival. She married her husband, Nick Dewey, manager of The Chemical Brothers in 2009. The couple have three children and live on Worthy Farm. BOOK CHOICE: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
LUXURY: Carpenter’s tool set (so she can build her own veranda)
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go by Bob Dylan Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Emily Eavis, festival co-organiser, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Emma Bridgewater | 20161127 | 20161202 (R4) | Emma Bridgewater, pottery designer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
is a British ceramic designer and businesswoman. She set up her pottery business in 1985 in Stoke-on-Trent, when many other manufacturers in the city were either closing down or going overseas. Her pottery is instantly recognizable, decorated with polka dots, stars, hearts or elegant lettering using 19th century sponge-printing techniques. It is an unlikely career for someone who studied English at University. Together with her husband, illustrator Matthew Rice, Emma Bridgewater has played a part in keeping the pottery tradition alive in Stoke-on-Trent. The factory also now hosts an annual literary festival. She was awarded a CBE in 2013 for services to industry. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Emma Bridgewater is a British ceramic designer and businesswoman. She set up her pottery business in 1985 in Stoke-on-Trent, when many other manufacturers in the city were either closing down or going overseas. Her pottery is instantly recognizable, decorated with polka dots, stars, hearts or elegant lettering using 19th century sponge-printing techniques. is a British ceramic designer and businesswoman. She set up her pottery business in 1985 in Stoke-on-Trent, when many other manufacturers in the city were either closing down or going overseas. Her pottery is instantly recognizable, decorated with polka dots, stars, hearts or elegant lettering using 19th century sponge-printing techniques. |
| Emma Thompson | 20100328 | 20100402 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson. Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of her notable screen credits in a dazzling career that has seen her pick up Oscars for both acting and writing. She appears to have pulled off that rare trick of being both a star and one of us - she famously keeps her brace of Oscars in the downstairs loo, still lives across the road from her mum and holidays in a cottage in Scotland where, she says, she and her husband spend a third of the year 'digging in like a pair of old potatoes.'. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress and writer Emma Thompson. ![]()
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| Emma Thompson | 20100402 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress and writer Emma Thompson. ![]()
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| Emmylou Harris | 20031221 | 20031225 | Sue Lawley's castaway is the country rock singer Emmylou Harris |
| Emmylou Harris | 20031228 | 20040101 | Sue Lawley's castaway is the country rock singer Emmylou Harris. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 21st Dec 11.15am] Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Paul O'grady, better known as Lily Savage. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Emmylou Harris | 20040730 | | Sue Lawley's castaway is country rock singer Emmylou Harris. |
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| Eve Pollard | 20111211 | 20111216 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and former editor Eve Pollard. She was groomed for success by Rupert Murdoch, but made an editor by Robert Maxwell. Her career has spanned glossy magazines and tabloid journalism, breakfast television, biographies and novels. When she first worked on Fleet Street, she says, women were such a rarity that the male reporters didn't know what to make of her. "Any woman who has a high flying job, they don't know who to compare you to - you're not their mum, you're not their sister, you're not their wife - so they make you a sort of monster-nanny figure." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Eve Pollard is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She was groomed for success by Rupert Murdoch, but made an editor by Robert Maxwell. Her career has spanned glossy magazines and tabloid journalism, breakfast television, biographies and novels. When she first worked on Fleet Street, she says, women were such a rarity that the male reporters didn't know what to make of her. "Any woman who has a high flying job, they don't know who to compare you to - you're not their mum, you're not their sister, you're not their wife - so they make you a sort of monster-nanny figure." |
| Eve Pollard | 20111216 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Eve Pollard is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Eve Stewart | 20130804 | 20130809 | Kirsty Young's castaway is BAFTA award-winning production designer, Eve Stewart. Her big screen credits include Les Miserables, The King's Speech and Vera Drake and for TV The Hour, Upstairs Downstairs and Call The Midwife. Responsible for locations, scenery and all the props she is renowned for creating entirely convincing, cohesive worlds that capture a beguiling sense of time, place and spirit. Not even the requirement for nine tons of Scottish seaweed or noiseless rubber rosary beads will defeat her. Her trademark is her relentless attention to detail and she slavishly trawls the archives for visual clues and references. It would seem that the bug bit her early - she says: 'When I was a little girl I used to have lots of doll's houses. Now I have lots of big ones and get to do it on a bigger scale.' Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Fay Weldon | 20100509 | 20100514 | The writer Fay Weldon joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. The author of dozens of novels, essays and radio and TV dramas, she says she spends so much time inventing characters and storylines that the distinction between fact and fiction has become blurred. As a child, Fay Weldon believed she had a second sight - seeing people who weren't there and hearing voices that no-one else could hear. As an adult, her perceptive nature has served her well too and she says: I think I know what goes on in other people's heads - more than most people do."". Writer Fay Weldon joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs."". As a child, Fay Weldon believed she had a second sight - seeing people who weren't there and hearing voices that no-one else could hear. As an adult, her perceptive nature has served her well too and she says: "I think I know what goes on in other people's heads - more than most people do.". ![]()
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| Fay Weldon | 20100514 | | Writer Fay Weldon joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Felicity Green | 20110417 | 20110422 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the pioneering fashion journalist Felicity Green. As hem-lines headed north in the early 60s she was hitting her stride in Fleet Street. She was the first woman on the board of a national paper and, as society changed, she kept right up with it. She introduced readers to Mary Quant, Biba and Twiggy and, on one memorable occasion, gave Harold Wilson's wife Mary a home perm. Now in her mid-80s she is still mentoring students at St Martin's College and says "I have never been fashionable - fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance. My blue-print for fashion is to be simple and stylish." Producer: Rachel Simpson. Fashion journalist Felicity Green joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. As hem-lines headed north in the early 60s she was hitting her stride in Fleet Street. She was the first woman on the board of a national paper and, as society changed, she kept right up with it. She introduced readers to Mary Quant, Biba and Twiggy and, on one memorable occasion, gave Harold Wilson's wife Mary a home perm. Now in her mid-80s she is still mentoring students at St Martin's College and says "I have never been fashionable - fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance. My blue-print for fashion is to be simple and stylish." |
| Felicity Green | 20110422 | | Fashion journalist Felicity Green joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| Felicity Lott | 20080718 | | Kirsty Young invites soprano Felicity Lott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Frances Wood | 20101205 | 20101210 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances Wood. As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she is the gatekeeper to some of the rarest printed texts in the world. Her life has been immersed in the language and culture of the Far East and, along the way, she's spent time learning how to throw hand-grenades, plant rice in the paddy-fields and bundle Chinese cabbages. She was in China in the final months of Mao Zedong's regime and remembers being aware of the sense of national unease: "There were the bodies that floated down the Pearl River to Hong Kong - you did get a real sense of foreboding. You did know that the whole country was on edge." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Writer and historian Frances Wood joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Record: Don Carlos Book: A copy of Chinese dictionary Cihai, (which means Sea of Words) from the 1930s Luxury: The War Memorial outside Euston Station. As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she is the gatekeeper to some of the rarest printed texts in the world. Her life has been immersed in the language and culture of the Far East and, along the way, she's spent time learning how to throw hand-grenades, plant rice in the paddy-fields and bundle Chinese cabbages. She was in China in the final months of Mao Zedong's regime and remembers being aware of the sense of national unease: "There were the bodies that floated down the Pearl River to Hong Kong - you did get a real sense of foreboding. You did know that the whole country was on edge." |
| Frances Wood | 20101210 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances Wood. As head of the Chinese collection at the British Library she is the gatekeeper to some of the rarest printed texts in the world. Her life has been immersed in the language and culture of the Far East and, along the way, she's spent time learning how to throw hand-grenades, plant rice in the paddy-fields and bundle Chinese cabbages. She was in China in the final months of Mao Zedong's regime and remembers being aware of the sense of national unease: "There were the bodies that floated down the Pearl River to Hong Kong - you did get a real sense of foreboding. You did know that the whole country was on edge." Producer: Leanne Buckle Record: Don Carlos Book: A copy of Chinese dictionary Cihai, (which means Sea of Words) from the 1930s Luxury: The War Memorial outside Euston Station. Writer and historian Frances Wood joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Record: Don Carlos Book: A copy of Chinese dictionary Cihai, (which means Sea of Words) from the 1930s |
| Francesca Simon | 20111106 | 20111111 | Children's author Francesca Simon is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
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| Franco Zeffirelli | 20030518 | 20030523 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the director Franco Zeffirelli. He was born the illegitimate son of a philandering businessman and a successful fashion designer, both of whom were married to other people. Unable to give him his father's or her own name, his mother plucked a word out of a Mozart opera - 'Zefferetti', meaning 'little breeze' - and gave it to her son. Somewhere along the line a slip of a pen transformed it into Zeffirelli, and Franco has gone by it for 80 years. He was only six when his mother died of tuberculosis. His father was reluctant to take care of Franco but was shamed into palming him off onto an aunt, and later his English secretary Mary O'Neill. Mary belonged to a society of English ex-pats in Florence and young Franco grew up under their extraordinary influence. His experiences were eventually fictionalised into his 1999 film Tea With Mussolini, starring Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Cher. In the war he fought as a partisan and twice faced a firing squad before he met up with the 1st Scots Guards and became their interpreter. As well as using his linguistic talents, the Scots Guards gave him an early opportunity for theatrical creativity, and he made an open-air auditorium from 30 army trucks and some camouflage netting. After the war he studied art and architecture and was drawn into the worlds of theatre and film, working as assistant to the Marxist director Luchino Visconti initially but soon designing and directing his own films, plays and operas. His filmography runs to some 20 movies from the ground-breaking, and at the time shocking Romeo and Juliet of 1968 to the brooding Jane Eyre of 1996 via his stunning seven-hour Jesus of Nazareth for television in 1977, not to mention his 1990 Hamlet with Mel Gibson in the leading role. On stage he is famed for his opulent productions at the opera and he has worked with the titans of the art including Maria Callas, Placido Domingo, Joan Sutherland and Herbert Von Karajan. He is in London to direct Pirandello's Absolutely! (Perhaps) starring Joan Plowright and Oliver Ford Davies, which opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 7th May. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Chanson Boheme by Bizet
Book: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Luxury: A hammock from Hermes Sue Lawley's castaway is director Franco Zeffirelli Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | 20100321 | 20100326 | ![]() Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. His film credits include Hilary and Jackie, Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People. He's also written TV soaps, radio and stage plays and children's novels. These days children are his main audience and, as a father of seven himself, he should know what they want. He not only tests his ideas on them, but they keep him focused: 'I need them in the house to make sure I'm not watching telly, or having a four-hour bath - the fact that they're there makes me work.'. His film credits include Hilary and Jackie, Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People. He's also written TV soaps, radio and stage plays and children's novels. These days children are his main audience and, as a father of seven himself, he should know what they want. He not only tests his ideas on them, but they keep him focused: 'I need them in the house to make sure I'm not watching telly, or having a four-hour bath - the fact that they're there makes me work.'. |
| Frank Skinner | 20100613 | 20100618 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner. As a football-obsessed comic whose stand-up routines were peppered with details of his personal life, he became the poster-boy for the 'Loaded' generation. Beneath the surface, though, he seems to be full of contradictions. He was expelled from school when he was a teenager - but went on to gain a masters degree; he has long been obsessed with Elvis Presley - but now says he feels a tingle when he goes to the opera. Although he had long enjoyed entertaining his friends, he was 30 before he realised where his future lay. I was an unemployed drunk going nowhere,"" he says, ""And then comedy turned up. Comedy saved my life""."". ![]()
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner. As a football-obsessed comic whose stand-up routines were peppered with details of his personal life, he became the poster-boy for the 'Loaded' generation. Beneath the surface, though, he seems to be full of contradictions. He was expelled from school when he was a teenager - but went on to gain a masters degree; he has long been obsessed with Elvis Presley - but now says he feels a tingle when he goes to the opera. Although he had long enjoyed entertaining his friends, he was 30 before he realised where his future lay. "I was an unemployed drunk going nowhere," he says, "And then comedy turned up. Comedy saved my life". |
| Frank Warren | 20100124 | 20100129 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank Warren. He has managed and promoted some of the biggest names in the sport, including Joe Calzaghe, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ricky Hatton and the Olympic medal winner Amir Khan. Over the past three decades he has lost fortunes and remade them, survived an assassination attempt and even a run-in with Mike Tyson. Boxing has been good to him, he says, but now he says he wants to find something that will nourish his soul too. Record: Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Billie Holiday Book: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Luxury: Merlot grapevine. Record: Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Billie Holiday ![]()
Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank Warren. |
| Frank Warren | 20100129 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank Warren. |
| Freddie Flintoff | 20150705 | 20150710 (R4) |  Kirsty's castaway this week is the former England cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff. One of the best players of his generation, he was part of the England team that won the Ashes in 2005, a year that marked his sporting coming of age. On the strength of that historic victory he was awarded an MBE for services to the game, and the public voted him BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Barely out of his pram when he picked up a cricket ball he turned out to bat for an under-14 match when he was just six years old. His debut was not in crisp cricket whites, but in a second hand Manchester United tracksuit, setting the tone for someone who's made a habit of doing things his way. Not least at a 10 Downing Street reception when, somewhat the worse for wear, he weaved into the cabinet room, plonked himself down in the PM's chair and knocked back yet another bottle of beer. Since retiring from the game he's had a go at heavyweight boxing and won the bout. One area where he hasn't come out on top: his sons never listen to his cricket coaching tips. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kirsty Young talks to former England cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.
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| Gareth Malone | 20161225 | 20161230 (R4) | Gareth Malone, choirmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. is a choirmaster who has coaxed and cajoled people from nervous adults to reluctant teenagers to open their mouths and sing for the pure joy of it - in front of television cameras. Gareth's first two TV series, which charted his attempts to build successful choirs in schools with little or no tradition of singing together, both won major awards, and gripped and inspired viewers. He has since also worked widely on TV with adult groups from a wide range of backgrounds, and his Military Wives Choir even hit the top of the charts at Christmas. Once described as a human tuning fork, Gareth loved music from an early age - and as he recalls, his parents and grandmother took a strong interest in his own youthful performances, from his very first school concerts. As a teenager, he felt an outsider amongst his fellow pupils, because he found his music teacher so inspiring. After time spent as a youth worker, and as a music educator, Gareth's TV series have taken him all over the country becoming - in his words - ""an evangelist for music."". 
Gareth Malone is a choirmaster who has coaxed and cajoled people from nervous adults to reluctant teenagers to open their mouths and sing for the pure joy of it - in front of television cameras. 
Producer: Paula McGinley. Gareth Malone is a choirmaster who has coaxed and cajoled people from nervous adults to reluctant teenagers to open their mouths and sing for the pure joy of it - in front of television cameras. is a choirmaster who has coaxed and cajoled people from nervous adults to reluctant teenagers to open their mouths and sing for the pure joy of it - in front of television cameras. |
| Garry Kasparov | 20180128 | 20180202 (R4) | Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, who became the youngest ever world champion at the age of 22. He is also a writer and a political activist. He grew up in the Soviet Union, the only child of engineer parents. He learned chess by watching his parents play as they worked out chess problems in the newspaper. As a five year old he was fascinated by the mysterious little pieces and the board with its 64 squares. Garry Kasparov's father died when he was seven and it was his mother who guided him on his chess career. As a player, he was nicknamed the Beast of Baku, because of his dynamic style at the chessboard. He became a grandmaster on his 17th birthday and went on to become the World Champion after beating Anatoly Karpov in a now-legendary series of games in the mid-1980s. He played high-profile matches against the IBM computer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997. Since his retirement from competitive chess, he has written numerous books and become a high-profile political activist. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Gary Barlow, Singer-songwriter | 20181209 | 20181214 (R4) | Gary Barlow, musician and Take That lead singer, has written more than a dozen chart-topping songs, and has received six Ivor Novello awards including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Born in Cheshire in 1971, his interest in music was sparked at an early age by a child’s keyboard. At the age of 10, he saw Depeche Mode on Top of the Pops, prompting the desire to take to the stage himself. He wrote A Million Love Songs, which later became a Top 10 hit for Take That, in his bedroom when he was 15. By this time he was a regular performer in a Labour club just across the Welsh border, where he cut his teeth playing the organ and singing. By the time he was 18, he was so good at writing songs that he successfully auditioned for a place in the group which became Take That. They went on to be one of the most successful bands of all time, winning a devoted audience with tracks such as Back For Good, Everything Changes and Pray. When they broke up in early 1996, helplines were set up to assuage their fans’ feelings of loss and grief. In 2005, Take That reformed, with Robbie Williams rejoining them for a spell in 2010, and – in some form or other – the band has kept going and will tour again in 2019. Gary was put in charge of organising the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert and performed at the closing ceremony for the London Olympics in 2012. He was a judge on the X-Factor for three series and his talent show, Let It Shine, was broadcast on BBC One in 2017. Earlier this year he published a second autobiography. BOOK CHOICE: Recording the Beatles by by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew.
LUXURY ITEM: Piano
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Nimrod by Elgar Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Gary Barlow, musician and Take That front man, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Gary Barlow, musician and Take That lead singer, has written more than a dozen chart-topping songs, and has received six Ivor Novello awards including the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19670930] | | | Roy Castle: comedian discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Roy Castle is in ' Big Bad Mouse at the Shaftesbury Theatre. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19670930] | | | Produced By: Monica Chapman Produced By: Roy Castle |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671002] | | | Roy Castle: comedian discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast Roy Castle is in ' Big Bad Mouse at the Shaftesbury Theatre. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671002] | | | Unknown: Roy Castle |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671007] | | | Andre Previn : conductor, pianist, and composer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened repeat: Monday, 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671007] | | | Conductor: Andre Previn Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671009] | | | Andre Previn : conductor, pianist, and composer Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671009] | | | Conductor: Andre Previn |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671014] | | | Kenneth Wolstenholme sports commentator discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version: Mon., 1225 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671014] | | | Unknown: Kenneth Wolstenholme Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671016] | | | Kenneth Wolstenholme sports commentator discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version of last Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671016] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671021] | | | Professor Sir Denis Brogan writer, teacher journalist, and broadcaster discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671021] | | | Unknown: Sir Denis Brogan Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671023] | | | Professor Sir Denis Brogan writer, teacher journalist, and broadcaster discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671023] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671028] | | | Denis Matthews pianist discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened repeat: Monday, 12.25p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671028] | | | Pianist: Denis Matthews Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671030] | | | Denis Matthews pianist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671030] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671104] | | | Sir Hugh Casson architect discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671104] | | | Unknown: Sir Hugh Casson Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671106] | | | Sir Hugh Casson architect discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version of last Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671106] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671111] | | | Warren Mitchell actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671111] | | | Unknown: Warren Mitchell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671113] | | | Warren Mitchell : actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671113] | | | Unknown: Warren Mitchell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671118] | | | Irene Worth: actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671118] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671120] | | | Irene Worth: actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671120] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671125] | | | Jacques Loussier : pianist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671125] | | | Pianist: Jacques Loussier Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671127] | | | Jacques Loussier : pianist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671127] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671202] | | | The Rev. Dr. P. B. (Tubby) Clayton C.H. , MX. Founder Padre of Toe H discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by Monica Chapman Repeated: Monday, 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671202] | | | Unknown: Dr. P. B. Unknown: Clayton C.H. Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671204] | | | The Rev. Dr. P. B. (Tubby) Clayton, C.H., M.C. with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671204] | | | Unknown: Rev. Dr. P. B. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671209] | | | The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Boyle , Bt., M.P. discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671209] | | | Unknown: Sir Edward Boyle Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671211] | | | The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Boyle , Bt., M.P., with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671211] | | | Unknown: Sir Edward Boyle Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671216] | | | Robert Merrill American baritone discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671216] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671218] | | | Robert Merrill with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671218] | | | Unknown: Robert Merrill Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671223] | | | Dame Gladys Cooper discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman Dame Gladys Cooper is In Let's AU Go Down The Strand ' at the Phoenix Theatre. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671223] | | | Unknown: Dame Gladys Cooper Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Monica Chapman Produced By: Dame Gladys Cooper |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671225] | | | Colin Davis, Chief Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671225] | | | Castaway: Colin Davis Devised and presented by: Roy Plomley Produced by: Monica Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671230] | | | Ann Mallalieu President of the Cambridge Union discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19671230] | | | Unknown: Ann Mallalieu Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680101] | | | Ann Mallalieu with ROY PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680101] | | | Unknown: Ann Mallalieu Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680106] | | | Desmond Morris zoologist and writer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680106] | | | Unknown: Desmond Morris Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680108] | | | Desmond Morris zoologist and writer †with Roy Plomley Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680108] | | | Unknown: Desmond Morris Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680113] | | | John Williams : guitarist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680113] | | | Guitarist: John Williams Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680115] | | | John Williams : guitarist with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680115] | | | Guitarist: John Williams Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680120] | | | John Mortimer : playwright discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680120] | | | Unknown: John Mortimer Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680122] | | | John Mortimer : playwright with ROY PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680122] | | | Unknown: John Mortimer Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680127] | | | John Bird: actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone, records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680127] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680129] | | | John Bird: actor †with ROY PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680129] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680203] | | | Susan Hampshire : actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680203] | | | Unknown: Susan Hampshire Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680205] | | | Susan Hampshire : actress with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680205] | | | Unknown: Susan Hampshire Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680210] | | | Marilyn Home discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680210] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680212] | | | Marilyn Horne Ï® with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680212] | | | Unknown: Marilyn Horne Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680217] | | | Bill Boorne : journalist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680217] | | | Unknown: Bill Boorne Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680219] | | | Bill Boorne : journalist with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680219] | | | Unknown: Bill Boorne Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680224] | | | C. Day Lewis: Poet Laureate discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680224] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680226] | | | C. Day-Lewis: Poet Laureate with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680226] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680302] | | | Rosalinde Fuller discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by bim the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680302] | | | Unknown: Rosalinde Fuller Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680304] | | | Rosalinde Fuller with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680304] | | | Unknown: Rosalinde Fuller Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680309] | | | Archie Camden discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680309] | | | Unknown: Archie Camden Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680311] | | | Archie Camden †with ROY PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680311] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680316] | | | uan Smith Chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Shortened version: Mon., 12.25 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680316] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680318] | | | Dan Smith Chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council with Roy PLOMLEY Shortened version. oi Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680318] | | | Unknown: Dan Smith Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680323] | | | Jon Vickers discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680323] | | | Unknown: Jon Vickers Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680325] | | | Jon Vickers with ROY PLOMLEY Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680325] | | | Unknown: Jon Vickers Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680401] | | | Alfie Bass discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Alfie Bass is. in ' Fiddler on the Roof ' at Her Majesty's Theatre. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680401] | | | Unknown: Alfie Bass Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall Produced By: Alfie Bass |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680403] | | | Alfie Bass with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680403] | | | Unknown: Alfie Bass |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680408] | | | Russell Braddon discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680408] | | | Unknown: Russell Braddon Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680410] | | | Russell Braddon with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680410] | | | Unknown: Russell Braddon |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680415] | | | Dame Maggie Teyte discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680415] | | | Unknown: Dame Maggie Teyte Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680417] | | | Dame Maggie Teyte †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680422] | | | Sir Nicholas Sekers discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by hint the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680422] | | | Unknown: Sir Nicholas Sekers Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680424] | | | Sir Nicholas Sekers †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680429] | | | Sir Michael Tippett discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated; Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680429] | | | Unknown: Sir Michael Tippett Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680501] | | | Sir Michael Tippett with Roy Plomley Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680501] | | | Unknown: Sir Michael Tippett Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680506] | | | Margaret Drabble discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680506] | | | Unknown: Margaret Drabble Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680513] | | | Leslie Sarony discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680513] | | | Unknown: Leslie Sarony Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680515] | | | Leslie Sarony with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680515] | | | Unknown: Leslie Sarony |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680520] | | | Trevor Nunn Artistic Director-designate of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680520] | | | Artistic: Trevor Nunn Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680522] | | | Trevor Nunn With ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680522] | | | Unknown: Trevor Nunn |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680527] | | | Janet Baker discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680527] | | | Unknown: Janet Baker Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680603] | | | Sir Gordon Russell designer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680603] | | | Unknown: Sir Gordon Russell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680605] | | | Sir Gordon Russell †With ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680605] | | | Unknown: Sir Gordon Russell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680610] | | | Colin Cowdrey discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680610] | | | Unknown: Colin Cowdrey Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680612] | | | Colin Cowdrey †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680617] | | | Henry Hall discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680617] | | | Unknown: Henry Hall Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680619] | | | Henry Hall with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680619] | | | Unknown: Henry Hall Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680624] | | | Eleanor Bron discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680624] | | | Unknown: Eleanor Bron Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680626] | | | Eleanor Bron with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680626] | | | Unknown: Eleanor Bron |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680701] | | | Sir Gilbert Inglefield Lord Mayor of London discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680701] | | | Unknown: Sir Gilbert Inglefield Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680703] | | | Sir Gilbert Inglefield Lord Mayor of London with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680703] | | | Unknown: Sir Gilbert Inglefield Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680708] | | | Francis Durbridge discusses with Roy PLOMLET in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680708] | | | Unknown: Francis Durbridge Unknown: Roy Plomlet Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680715] | | | Thora Hird discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680715] | | | Unknown: Thora Hird Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680717] | | | Thora Hird with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680717] | | | Unknown: Thora Hird |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680722] | | | Eric Shipton : mountaineer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY tn a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680722] | | | Unknown: Eric Shipton Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680724] | | | Eric Shipton : mountaineer with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680724] | | | Unknown: Eric Shipton |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680729] | | | Edward Chapman discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by htm the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680729] | | | Unknown: Edward Chapman Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680731] | | | Edward Chapman with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680731] | | | Unknown: Edward Chapman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680805] | | | Louis Armstrong discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680805] | | | Castaway: Louis Armstrong Presenter/devised by: Roy Plomley Producer: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680807] | | | Louis Armstrong †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680812] | | | Sir Francis McLean former Director of Engineering, BBC discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680812] | | | Unknown: Sir Francis McLean Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680814] | | | Sir Francis McLean with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680814] | | | Unknown: Sir Francis McLean Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680819] | | | Carlo Maria Giulini discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680819] | | | Unknown: Carlo Maria Giulini Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680821] | | | Carlo Maria Giulini with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680821] | | | Unknown: Carlo Maria Giulini |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680826] | | | Edwige Feuillère the distinKUished French actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680826] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680828] | | | Edwige Feuillere with Roy PLOMLEY Malay's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680828] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680902] | | | Dame Ngaio Marsh novelist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680902] | | | Unknown: Dame Ngaio Marsh Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680904] | | | Dame Ngaio Marsh †with ROY PLOMLEY , Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680904] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680909] | | | Richard Rodney Bennett composer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680909] | | | Unknown: Richard Rodney Bennett Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680911] | | | Richard Rodney Bennett composer with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680911] | | | Unknown: Richard Rodney Bennett Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680916] | | | Dame Anne Godwin discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680916] | | | Unknown: Dame Anne Godwin Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680918] | | | Dame Anne Godwin with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680918] | | | Unknown: Dame Anne Godwin |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680923] | | | Marty Feldman actor and scriptwriter discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised fly him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680923] | | | Unknown: Marty Feldman Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680925] | | | Marty Feldman actor and scriptwriter with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680925] | | | Unknown: Marty Feldman Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680930] | | | Richard Lester : film director discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Michael Hall Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19680930] | | | Unknown: Richard Lester Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Michael Hall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681002] | | | Richard Lester : film director + with Roy Plomley Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681002] | | | Unknown: Richard Lester Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681007] | | | Billy Russell : character actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681007] | | | Unknown: Billy Russell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681009] | | | Billy Russell : character actor with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681009] | | | Unknown: Billy Russell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681014] | | | Raymond Postgate author and gastronome discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681014] | | | Unknown: Raymond Postgate Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681016] | | | Raymond Postgate author and gastronome with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681016] | | | Unknown: Raymond Postgate |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681021] | | | Barbara Murray : actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by htm the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681021] | | | Unknown: Barbara Murray Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681023] | | | Barbara Murray : actress †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681023] | | | Unknown: Barbara Murray |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681028] | | | Richard Baker TV newsreader and commentator discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681028] | | | Unknown: Richard Baker Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681030] | | | Richard Baker TV newsreader and commentator with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681030] | | | Unknown: Richard Baker Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681104] | | | Peggy Mount: actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Peggy Mount is in ' Oh. Clarence! ' at the Lyric Theatre. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681104] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Peggy Mount |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681106] | | | Peggy Mount: actress with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681111] | | | Dan Maskell Tennis coach and commentator discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Denys Jones Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681111] | | | Unknown: Dan Maskell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681113] | | | Dan Maskell tennis coach and commentator with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681113] | | | Unknown: Dan Maskell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681118] | | | Lt.-Colonel C. H. Jaeger top military musician discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681118] | | | Unknown: H. Jaeger Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681120] | | | Lt.-Colonel C. H. Jaeger top military musician with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681120] | | | Unknown: H. Jaeger Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681125] | | | Sandy Powell : comedian discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681125] | | | Unknown: Sandy Powell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681127] | | | Sandy Powell : comedian with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681127] | | | Unknown: Sandy Powell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681202] | | | Sir Paul Gore-Booth Head of H.M. Diplomatic Service discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681202] | | | Unknown: Sir Paul Gore-Booth Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681204] | | | Sir Paul Gore-Booth Head of H.M. Diplomatic Service with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681204] | | | Unknown: Sir Paul Gore-Booth Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681209] | | | Des Wilson Director of ' Shelter discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald. Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681209] | | | Unknown: Des Wilson Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681211] | | | Des Wilson Director of ' Shelter ' with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681216] | | | Professor Asa Briggs Vice-Chancellor of Sussex University discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681216] | | | Unknown: Professor Asa Briggs Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681223] | | | Arthur Askey : comedian discusses with Rot PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Arthur Askey is in ' Robinson Cru soe ' at the London Palladium |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681223] | | | Unknown: Arthur Askey Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Arthur Askey Unknown: Robinson Cru |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681225] | | | Rosea Kemp of the London Weather Centre discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681225] | | | Unknown: Rosea Kemp Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681230] | | | Bob Braithwaite Olympic clay pigeon shooting champion discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Denys Jones Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19681230] | | | Unknown: Bob Braithwaite Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690101] | | | Bob Braithwaite Olympic clay pigeon shooting champion discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690101] | | | Unknown: Bob Braithwaite Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690106] | | | Heather Harper : soprano discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690106] | | | Soprano: Heather Harper Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690108] | | | Heather Harper : soprano discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690108] | | | Soprano: Heather Harper Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690113] | | | Alan Pegler owner of The Flying Scotsman discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690113] | | | Unknown: Alan Pegler Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690115] | | | Alan Pegler owner of The Flying Scotsman with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690115] | | | Unknown: Alan Pegler |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690120] | | | Maurice Jacobson : musician discusses with Roy PLOMEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690120] | | | Unknown: Maurice Jacobson Unknown: Roy Plomey Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690122] | | | Maurice Jacobson : musician with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690122] | | | Unknown: Maurice Jacobson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690127] | | | Maggie Fitzgibbon actress and singer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690127] | | | Unknown: Maggie Fitzgibbon Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690129] | | | Maggie Fitzgibbon actress and singer with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690129] | | | Unknown: Maggie Fitzgibbon |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690203] | | | Lord David Cecil English scholar and author discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690203] | | | Unknown: Lord David Cecil Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690205] | | | Lord David Cecil English scholar and author with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690205] | | | Unknown: Lord David Cecil |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690210] | | | Rosea Kemp of the London Weather Centre discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Broadcast on December 25. 1968 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690210] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690212] | | | Hylda Baker character comedienne discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gtamophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690212] | | | Unknown: Hylda Baker Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690217] | | | Edward Downes : conductor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Edward Downes broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690217] | | | Conductor: Edward Downes Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Edward Downes |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690219] | | | Edward Downes : conductor with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690219] | | | Conductor: Edward Downes |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690226] | | | Angus Wilson author and historian †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690226] | | | Unknown: Angus Wilson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690303] | | | Zena Skinner cookery broadcaster discusses with Roy PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690303] | | | Unknown: Zena Skinner Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690305] | | | Zena Skinner cookery broadcaster with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690305] | | | Unknown: Zena Skinner |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690310] | | | Mrs. Mary Wilson discusses with ROY PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690310] | | | Unknown: Mrs. Mary Wilson Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690312] | | | Mrs. Mary Wilson with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690312] | | | Unknown: Mrs. Mary Wilson Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690317] | | | L. Marsland Gander journalist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690317] | | | Unknown: L. Marsland Gander Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690324] | | | Lady Diana Cooper discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690324] | | | Unknown: Lady Diana Cooper Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690326] | | | Lady Diana Cooper †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690326] | | | Unknown: Lady Diana Cooper |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690331] | | | Jill Bennett actress discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690331] | | | Unknown: Jill Bennett Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690402] | | | Jill Bennett actress with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690402] | | | Unknown: Jill Bennett Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690407] | | | Sir Alec Rose lone sailor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690407] | | | Unknown: Sir Alec Rose Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690409] | | | Sir Alec Rose lone sailor †with ROY PLOMLET Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690409] | | | Unknown: Sir Alec Rose Unknown: Roy Plomlet |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690414] | | | Hetty King music-hall star discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690414] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690416] | | | Hetty King music-hall star †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690421] | | | Mary Stewart : novelist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690421] | | | Unknown: Mary Stewart Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690423] | | | Mary Stewart : novelist with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690423] | | | Unknown: Mary Stewart |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690428] | | | Dr. Elsie Hall nonagenarian pianist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690428] | | | Unknown: Dr. Elsie Hall Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690430] | | | Dr. Elsie Hall nonagenarian pianist with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690430] | | | Unknown: Dr. Elsie Hall Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690505] | | | Alvar Lidell discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690505] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690507] | | | Alvar Lidell with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690512] | | | Nicolai Gedda : tenor discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690512] | | | Tenor: Nicolai Gedda Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690514] | | | Nicolai Gedda : tenor with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690514] | | | Tenor: Nicolai Gedda |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690519] | | | Virginia Wade top British tennis player discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690519] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690521] | | | Virginia Wade leading British tennis player †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690526] | | | Ginger Rogers discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Ginger Rogers is tn ' Mame ' at the Theatre Royal. Drury Lane. London |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690526] | | | Unknown: Ginger Rogers Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Ginger Rogers |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690528] | | | Ginger Rogers with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690528] | | | Unknown: Ginger Rogers Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690602] | | | Lady Antonia Fraser discusses with ROY PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690602] | | | Unknown: Lady Antonia Fraser Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690604] | | | Lady Antonia Fraser with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690604] | | | Unknown: Lady Antonia Fraser Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690609] | | | Stanford Robinson: conductor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690609] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690611] | | | Stanford Robinson: conductor with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690616] | | | John Trevelyan: film censor discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690616] | | | Guest: John Trevelyan Presenter: Roy Plomley Devised by: Roy Plomley Producer: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690618] | | | John Trevelyan : film censor with Roy Plomley Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690618] | | | Unknown: John Trevelyan Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690623] | | | Evelyn Laye star of the theatre discusses with Roy Plomlet in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690623] | | | Unknown: Evelyn Laye Unknown: Roy Plomlet Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690625] | | | Evelyn Laye star of the theatre with Roy Plomley Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690625] | | | Unknown: Evelyn Laye Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690630] | | | Kenneth More: actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Kenneth More is in ' The Secretary Bird at the Savoy Theatre. London Repeated: Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690630] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Kenneth More |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690702] | | | Kenneth More: actor with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690702] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690707] | | | Leonard Henry : comedian discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690707] | | | Unknown: Leonard Henry Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690709] | | | Leonard Henry : comedian with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690709] | | | Unknown: Leonard Henry |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690714] | | | Vincent Price: actor discusses with ROY PLOMLEY In a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690714] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690716] | | | Vincent Price: actor †with ROY PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690721] | | | Peter Pears : tenor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690721] | | | Tenor: Peter Pears Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690728] | | | Rachael Heyhoe : captain of the England women's cricket team discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690728] | | | Unknown: Rachael Heyhoe Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690804] | | | Cyril Harmer : philatelist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690804] | | | Unknown: Cyril Harmer Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690813] | | | Peter Pears : tenor with Roy PLOMLEY Broadcast on July 21 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690813] | | | Tenor: Peter Pears |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690818] | | | Hermione Gingold character comedienne discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690818] | | | Unknown: Hermione Gingold Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690820] | | | Hermione Gingold with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690820] | | | Unknown: Hermione Gingold |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690825] | | | Olivia Manning : novelist discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690825] | | | Unknown: Olivia Manning Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690827] | | | Olivia Manning : novelist with Roy PLOMLEY Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690827] | | | Unknown: Olivia Manning |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690901] | | | Des O'Connor : entertainer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Ronald Cook Des O'Connor is in ' Here and Now! ' at the London Palladium |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690901] | | | Unknown: Des O'Connor Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Produced By: Des O'Connor |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690903] | | | Des O'Connor : entertainer with Roy Plomley Monday's broadcast |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690903] | | | Unknown: Des O'Connor Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690908] | | | Robin Day, television reporter and interviewer, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced bv RONALD COOK (Repeated: Wed., 7.0 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690910] | | | Robin fray, television reporter and interviewer With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690913] | | | Donald Zec , newspaper columnist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690913] | | | Unknown: Donald Zec Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690915] | | | Donald Zee newspaper columnist with ROY plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690915] | | | Unknown: Donald Zee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690920] | | | Sir John Wolfenden discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690920] | | | Unknown: Sir John Wolfenden Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690922] | | | Sir John Wolfenden with ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690922] | | | Unknown: Sir John Wolfenden Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690927] | | | Cliff Morgan , Rugby international and commentator, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island Produced by DENYS JONES |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690927] | | | Unknown: Cliff Morgan Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690929] | | | Cliff Morgan. Rugby international and commentator With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19690929] | | | Unknown: Cliff Morgan. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691004] | | | Thea Holme , actress, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691004] | | | Unknown: Thea Holme Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691006] | | | Thea Holme: actress with ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691006] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691011] | | | Henry Williamson, author and naturalist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691011] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691013] | | | Henry Williamson With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691018] | | | Max Adrian , actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONAI.D COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691018] | | | Unknown: Max Adrian Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691020] | | | Max Adrian , actor with ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691020] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691025] | | | Raymond Mays , motor racing driver, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he woutd take to a desert island Produced by DENYS JONES (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691025] | | | Unknown: Raymond Mays Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691027] | | | Raymond Mays motor racing driver with ROY PI.OMLET |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691027] | | | Unknown: Raymond Mays |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691101] | | | Anthony Grey Renter Correspondent discusses with ROY PLOMBLEY tin a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691101] | | | Unknown: Anthony Grey Unknown: Roy Plombley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691103] | | | Anthony Grey Reuter Correspondent |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691103] | | | Unknown: Anthony Grey |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691108] | | | Evelyn Rothwell , oboist, discusses with ROY PI.OMLGY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALO COOK |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691108] | | | Unknown: Evelyn Rothwell Produced By: Ronalo Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691110] | | | Evelyn Rothwell , oboist with ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691110] | | | Unknown: Evelyn Rothwell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691115] | | | Dudley Moore , comedian and jazz pianist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday. 12.25 pm) (Dudley Moore is in ' Play it Again. Sam,' at the Globe Theatre. London) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691115] | | | Unknown: Dudley Moore Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691117] | | | Dudley Moore comedian and jazz pianist With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691117] | | | Unknown: Dudley Moore |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691122] | | | Irmgard Seefried , soprano, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday 12 25) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691122] | | | Soprano: Irmgard Seefried Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691124] | | | Irmgard Seefried , soprano with ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691124] | | | Soprano: Irmgard Seefried Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691129] | | | Lillian Board Olympic athlete discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island Produced by DENYS JONES (Repeated: Monday 12.25) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691129] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691201] | | | Lillian Board. Olympic athlete With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691206] | | | Godfrey Baseley. Editor of The Archers, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691206] | | | Unknown: Godfrey Baseley. Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691208] | | | Godfrey Baseley Editor of The Archers With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691208] | | | Unknown: Godfrey Baseley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691213] | | | Moira Anderson , singing star, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday 12.25) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691213] | | | Unknown: Moira Anderson Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691215] | | | Moira Anderson , singing star With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19691215] | | | Unknown: Moira Anderson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700102] | | | Sacha Distel discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Sacha Distel Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700103] | | | Fyfe Robertson , television reporter, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Unknown: Fyfe Robertson Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700104] | | | Sacha Distel With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Sacha Distel |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700105] | | | Fyfe Robertson : TV reporter With ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Fyfe Robertson Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700110] | | | Leonard Sachs , actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Unknown: Leonard Sachs Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700112] | | | Leonard Sachs , actor With ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Leonard Sachs |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700117] | | | Val Doonican discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Val Doonican Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700119] | | | Val Doonican With ROY PI.OMLEY Contributors Unknown: Val Doonican |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700124] | | | Professor A.S.C. Ross , originator of the u and non-u argument, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Professor A.S.C. Ross Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700126] | | | Professor A. S. C. Ross Contributors Unknown: Professor A. S. C. Ross |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700131] | | | Stanley Baxter , actor and impressionist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) (Stanley Baxter is in ' Phil The Fluter ' at the Palace Theatre, London) Contributors Unknown: Stanley Baxter Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700202] | | | Stanley Baxter , actor and impressionist, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Stanley Baxter Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700207] | | | Isidore Godfrey , conductor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Conductor: Isidore Godfrey Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700209] | | | Isidore Godfrey , conductor with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Conductor: Isidore Godfrey Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700214] | | | Frank Gillard , former Managing Director of BBC Radio, discusses with ROY PLOMI. EY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Frank Gillard Unknown: Roy Plomi. Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700216] | | | Frank Gillard , former Managing Director of BBC Radio, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Frank Gillard Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700221] | | | Richard Church, poet and essayist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700223] | | | Richard Church, poet and essayist, with ROY PLOMLEY †|
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700228] | | | Isobel Baillie. soprano, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Soprano: Isobel Baillie. Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700302] | | | Isobel Baillie , soprano with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Soprano: Isobel Baillie Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700307] | | | Dr Roy Strong. Director of the National Portrait Gallery, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Dr Roy Strong. Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700309] | | | Dr Roy Strong. Director of the National Portrait Gallery, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Dr Roy Strong. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700314] | | | Richard Chamberlain discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett in ' The Portrait of a Lady': Sunday, BBC1 Colour) Contributors Unknown: Richard Chamberlain Unknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: Ralph Touchett |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700316] | | | Richard Chamberlain , actor, With ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Richard Chamberlain Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700321] | | | Judy Hashman. badminton player, discusses with roy PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by DENYS JONES (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Unknown: Judy Hashman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700323] | | | Judy Hashman , badminton player, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Judy Hashman Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700328] | | | Nyree Dawn Porter discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) (Nyree Dawn Porter in The Forsyte Saga: Friday, BBC1) Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: Nyree Dawn Porter |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700330] | | | Nyree Dawn Porter With ROY PLOMLEY |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700404] | | | Sheridan Russell , cellist and social worker, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Sheridan Russell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700406] | | | Sheridan Russell , cellist and social worker, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Sheridan Russell Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700411] | | | Deryck Guyler , character actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Deryck Guyler Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700413] | | | Deryck Guyler , character actor, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Deryck Guyler Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700418] | | | James Lockhart , Director of Music, Welsh National Opera Company, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced bv RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: James Lockhart Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700420] | | | -James Lockhart , Director of Music, Welsh National Opera Company, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: James Lockhart Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700425] | | | Sir Gavin de Beer , scientist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Sir Gavin de Beer Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700427] | | | Sir Gavin de Beer. scientist, With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700502] | | | Gina Cigna , opera singer, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Gina Cigna Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700504] | | | Gina Cigna. opera singer (Saturday s broadcast) 12.55 Weather; programme news |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700509] | | | Carol Channing. Broadway musical comedy star, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) (Carol Channing is in ' Carol Channing with Ten Stout-hearted Men ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London) Contributors Unknown: Carol Channing. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700511] | | | Carol Channing , Broadway musical comedy star, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Carol Channing Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700516] | | | Graham Usher , ballet dancer, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Graham Usher Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700518] | | | Graham Usher , ballet dancer, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Graham Usher Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700523] | | | Andy Stewart , Scottish entertainer, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Andy Stewart Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700525] | | | Andy Stewart. Scottish entertainer, With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Andy Stewart. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700530] | | | Keith Michell , actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Keith Michell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700601] | | | Keith Michell , actor 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Keith Michell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700606] | | | Monica Dickens discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Monica Dickens Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700608] | | | Monica Dickens 12.55 Weather; programme news |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700613] | | | Barbara Windsor discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) (Barbara Windsor is in ' Sing a Rude Song ' at the Garrick Theatre, London) Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700615] | | | Barbara Windsor with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Barbara Windsor Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700620] | | | Ida Haendel , violinist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Violinist: Ida Haendel Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700622] | | | Ida Haendel. violinist With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Violinist: Ida Haendel. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700627] | | | Vidal Sassoon , hairdresser, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD cook (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Vidal Sassoon Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700629] | | | Vidal Sassoon. hairdresser With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Vidal Sassoon. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700704] | | | Robin Knox-Johnston. lone sailor, discusses with ROY plomley (in a recorded pro. gramme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Robin Knox-Johnston Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700706] | | | Robin Knox-Johnston With ROY PLOM1.EY 12.55 Weather; programmenews Contributors Unknown: Robin Knox-Johnston |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700711] | | | Barbara Cartland , novelist, discusses with roy PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Barbara Cartland |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700713] | | | Barbara Cartland , novelist with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Barbara Cartland Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700718] | | | John Piper , artist, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Artist: John Piper Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700720] | | | John Piper , artist With ROY PLOMLEY (Saturday s broadcast) 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Artist: John Piper Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700725] | | | Joan Hammond , soprano, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Soprano: Joan Hammond Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700727] | | | Joan Hammond. soprano with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programmenews Contributors Soprano: Joan Hammond. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700801] | | | Terry-Thomas, comedy actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700803] | | | Terry-Thomas, comedy actor With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700808] | | | David Davis , broadcaster, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: David Davis Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700810] | | | David Davis , broadcaster with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: David Davis Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700815] | | | Erich Leinsdorf , conductor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700817] | | | Erich Leinsdorf , conductor with ROY PLOMLEY % 12.55 Weather; programmenews Contributors Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700822] | | | Freya Stark, author and traveller, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700824] | | | Freya Stark, author and traveller, With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700829] | | | Dick Emery , comedian, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) (Dick Emery is in ' The Dick Emery Show ' at the Pier Pavilion Theatre, Brighton) Contributors Unknown: Dick Emery Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Unknown: Dick Emery Show |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700831] | | | Dick Emery , comedian 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Dick Emery |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700905] | | | Ellen Pollock , actress, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25) Contributors Unknown: Ellen Pollock Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700907] | | | Ellen Pollock , actress 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Ellen Pollock |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700912] | | | Helen Watts , contralto, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Contralto: Helen Watts Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700914] | | | Helen Watts , contralto With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Contralto: Helen Watts Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700919] | | | Sir Alan Herbert discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (A. PH. celebrates his 80th birthday on Thursday - and so does Radio 4. John Hall on 1 A. P. Herbert : 80 years of witty indignation ': page 10) Contributors Unknown: Sir Alan Herbert Unknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: John Hall Unknown: A. P. Herbert |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700921] | | | Sir Alan Herbert With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Sir Alan Herbert Unknown: With Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700926] | | | Harry Carpenter , sports commentator, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by DENYS JONES (Repeated: Monday. 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Harry Carpenter Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700928] | | | Harry Carpenter, sports commentator. with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701003] | | | Carrie Tubb , golden age soprano. discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Carrie Tubb Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701005] | | | Carrie Tubb 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Carrie Tubb |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701010] | | | Lynn Redgrave discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Lynn is in The Two of Us ' at the Garrick Theatre, London) (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Lynn Redgrave Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701012] | | | Lynn Redgrave. actress with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Lynn Redgrave. Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701017] | | | Sari Barabas. opera star, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records she would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Sari Barabas is in 'The Great Waltz ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London) (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701019] | | | Sari Barabas , opera star with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Sari Barabas Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701024] | | | John Lill. pianist discusses with ROY plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Pianist: John Lill. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701026] | | | John Lill , pianist 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Pianist: John Lill |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701031] | | | Joan Whittington , CBE, former Red Cross Overseas Director. discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Joan Whittington Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701102] | | | Joan Whittington , CBE, former Red Cross Overseas Director 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Joan Whittington |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701107] | | | Vilem Tausky , conductor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Conductor: Vilem Tausky Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701109] | | | Vilem Tausky , conductor 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Conductor: Vilem Tausky |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701114] | | | Margaret Powell , the author from below stairs, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK Contributors Unknown: Margaret Powell Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701116] | | | Margaret Powell , the author from below stairs with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Margaret Powell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701121] | | | David Hughes , tenor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) (David Hughes broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera) Contributors Tenor: David Hughes Unknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: David Hughes |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701123] | | | David Hughes , tenor 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Tenor: David Hughes |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701128] | | | Diana Rigg. actress, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) (Diana Rigg is in Abelard and Heloise' at Wyndham's Theatre, London) Contributors Unknown: Diana Rigg. Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701130] | | | Diana Rigs , actress 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Diana Rigs |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701205] | | | Wally Herbert , explorer, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised bv him. the records he would take to a desert island. Produced bv RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Wally Herbert Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701207] | | | Wally Herbert , explorer With ROY PLOMLEY ‡ 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Wally Herbert |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701212] | | | Arthur Lowe , actor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Arthur Lowe Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701214] | | | Arthur Lowe , actor With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Arthur Lowe |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701219] | | | Ivan Mauger world speedway champion With ROY PLOMLEY (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) Contributors Unknown: Ivan Mauger Unknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701221] | | | Ivan Mauger , world speedway champion, discusses with ROT PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island. Produced by DENYS JONES 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Ivan Mauger Produced By: Denys Jones |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701226] | | | Quentin Poole , 13-year-old Head Chorister of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he. would take to a desert island. Produced by RONALD COOK (Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm) (' Christmas at school ': p 4) Contributors Unknown: Quentin Poole Unknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19701228] | | | Quentin Poole , 13-year-old Head Chorister of King's College Chapel, Cambridge With ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather, information and news for your area Contributors Unknown: Quentin Poole |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821106] | | | Thomas Allen. baritone (Details: Friday 9.5 am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821106] | | | Baritone: Thomas Allen. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821112] | | | The baritone Thomas Allen , who began his operatic career with the Welsh National Opera, has built up an International reputation. In conversation with Roy PLOMLEY , he talks about his career and chooses his eight records. Producer DEREK DRESCHER long wave only |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821112] | | | Baritone: Thomas Allen Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Derek Drescher |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821113] | | | with writer Rosamond Lehmann (Details: Friday 9.5 am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821113] | | | Unknown: Rosamond Lehmann |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821119] | | | Rosamond Lehmann. now 81 is thought by many to be one of the greatest British writers of this century, having written eight novels and one autobiographical work. The swan in the Evening. In conversation with ROY PLOMLEY she talks about her career and chooses the eight records she would take to the mvthical island. Producer DEREK DRESCHER long wave only |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821119] | | | Unknown: Rosamond Lehmann. Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Derek Drescher |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821120] | | | (Details: Friduy 9.5 am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821126] | | | P D James is now a highly regarded writer of detective fiction, but, except for a short period as an assistant stage manager in the theatre, she has spent most of her life as an administrator n the National Health Service. In conversation with ROY FLOMLEY. She talks about her career and chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island. Producer DEREK DRESCHER long wave only |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821126] | | | Unknown: Roy Flomley. Producer: Derek Drescher |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821127] | | | Actress Helen Mirren (Details: Friday 9.5 am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19821127] | | | Unknown: Helen Mirren |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880108] | | | As an actor Jeremy Lloyd made his name playing the part of the archetypal English 'upper-class twit'. As a writer his most recent success has been 'Allo 'Allo!. In conversation with Michael Parkinson he recalls his life and career and chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island. Programme created by ROY PLOMLEY Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo(R) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880108] | | | Unknown: Jeremy Lloyd Unknown: Michael Parkinson Producer: Ray Abbott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880110] | | | Soprano Adele Leigh 's career has encompassed television shows, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Vienna Volksoper. She married a diplomat and retired from singing, until last year when she made a comeback in Stephen Sondheim 's Follies. In conversation with Michael Parkinson she looks back on her varied career and also chooses the eight records to take to the mythical island. Programme created by ROY PLOMLEY Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Friday at 9.05am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880110] | | | Soprano: Adele Leigh Unknown: Vienna Volksoper Unknown: Stephen Sondheim Unknown: Michael Parkinson Producer: Ray Abbott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880115] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880117] | | | The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine , mp is often described as one of the new breed of Tory politicians and was widely tipped to be the next leader of the party. But all that changed dramatically in 1986 when he resigned his Cabinet post over the Westland affair. In conversation with Michael Parkinson he recalls his upbringing in South Wales, schooldays at Shrewsbury, undergraduate life at Oxford and his subsequent career in politics. He also chooses his eight records. Programme created by ROY PLOMLEY Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880117] | | | Unknown: Michael Heseltine Unknown: Michael Parkinson Producer: Ray Abbott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880122] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880124] | | | Gemma Craven is one of Britain's most versatile actresses; she's won awards for her work in musicals and comedy and is currently appearing in the first West End revival of South Pacific. In conversation with Michael Parkinson she looks back on her life and career and also chooses eight records to take with her to the mythical island. Programme created by ROY PLOMLEY Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880124] | | | Unknown: Gemma Craven Unknown: Michael Parkinson Producer: Ray Abbott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880129] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880131] | | | The castaway this week is Lord Donoughue who, in conversation with Michael Parkinson , traces the course of his career from working-class beginnings, to Oxford, to the world of politics (he was senior adviser to two Labour Prime Ministers) and to merchant banking. He also chooses his eight records. Programme created by ROY PLOMLEY Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Friday at 9. 05am) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19880131] | | | Unknown: Michael Parkinson Producer: Ray Abbott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900107] | | | Unknown: Dennis Skinner Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900114] | | | Unknown: John Peel. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900121] | | | Producer: Olivia Seugman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900128] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900204] | | | Talks: Sarah Miles |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900211] | | | Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900218] | | | Talks: John Pilger Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900225] | | | Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900304] | | | Unknown: Sir Ian Trethowan Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900311] | | | Unknown: Sir George Porter Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900318] | | | Unknown: Richard Rogers. Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Sehgman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900325] | | | Unknown: John Biffen Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900401] | | | Unknown: Jack Lemmon Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900408] | | | Unknown: Lucinda Lambton Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900415] | | | Unknown: Sir Crispin Tickell Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900422] | | | Talks: Mary Wesley Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900429] | | | Unknown: June Whitfield. Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900504] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900506] | | | Prue Leith, restaurateur and cookery writer, talks to Sue Lawley. Programme created by Roy Plomley Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900506] | | | Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900511] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900513] | | | The castaway this week is writer Molly Keane. She talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses eight gramophone records to take with her to the mythical island. Programme created by Roy Plomley Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900513] | | | Unknown: Molly Keane. Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900518] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900520] | | | This week's castaway is actor Jonathan Pryce. He talks to Sue Lawley about his successful career and chooses eight records to take to his desert island. Programme created by Roy Plomley Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900520] | | | Unknown: Jonathan Pryce. Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900525] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900527] | | | David Blunkett , MP, talks to Sue Lawley about his passions, politics and pastimes, and chooses his records. Programme created by Roy Plomley Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900527] | | | Unknown: David Blunkett Unknown: Roy Plomley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900603] | | | Unknown: Ken Dodd. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900610] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900617] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900624] | | | Unknown: George Carman Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900708] | | | Unknown: Peter Jonas Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900715] | | | Unknown: Jean Rook Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900722] | | | Unknown: Joan Collins Producer: Olivia Sefigman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900729] | | | Guitarist: Eric Clapton Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900805] | | | Unknown: Sir George Porter Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900812] | | | Unknown: Thora Hird Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900819] | | | Unknown: Crispin Tickell Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900826] | | | Unknown: Seamus Heaney Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900902] | | | Unknown: Robin Knox-Johnston Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900909] | | | Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900916] | | | Talks: Dr Ruth Westheimer Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900923] | | | Talks: Barbara Windsor Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19900930] | | | Talks: Gary Lineker Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901007] | | | Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901014] | | | Talks: Clive Jenkins Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901021] | | | Talks: Ernie Wise Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901028] | | | Artistic: Nicholas Snowman Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901104] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901111] | | | Talks: Barbara Castle Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901118] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901125] | | | Singer: Elizabeth Welch. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901130] | | | Singer: Elizabeth Welch. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901202] | | | Talks: Eduardo Paolozzi Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901209] | | | Unknown: Mary Wesley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901214] | | | Unknown: Mary Wesley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901216] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901223] | | | Unknown: Brian Keenan |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19901230] | | | Talks: Keith Floyd Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910104] | | | This week irreverent cook Keith Floyd talks to Sue Lawley about his love of the good things in life, and chooses eight records to take to his island exile. Stereo Contributors Talks: Keith Floyd |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910104] | | | Talks: Keith Floyd |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910106] | | | Lawyer Lord Goodman talks to Sue Lawley about his long and influential career, during which his advice has been sought in both domestic and international political arenas. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Lawyer Lord Goodman Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910106] | | | Talks: Lawyer Lord Goodman Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910111] | | | Lord Goodman discusses his long and influential career with Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910113] | | | The jazz singer Adelaide Hall , now well into her 80s, discusses her life and times with Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Singer: Adelaide Hall Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910113] | | | Singer: Adelaide Hall Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910118] | | | Jazz singer Adelaide Hall , now well into her 80s, discusses her life and times with Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Singer: Adelaide Hall Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910118] | | | Singer: Adelaide Hall Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910120] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the film director Fred Zinnemann. With films such as High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma! and A Man for All Seasons to his name, he will be contemplating a life of island exile with no films, and just eight gramophone records for consolation. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Director: Fred Zinnemann. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910120] | | | Director: Fred Zinnemann. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910125] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the film director Fred Zinnemann. Stereo Contributors Director: Fred Zinnemann. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910125] | | | Director: Fred Zinnemann. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910127] | | | Prolific musician Brian Eno discusses his life and work with Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Brian Eno Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910127] | | | Unknown: Brian Eno Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910203] | | | Social and political philosopher Professor Ralf Dahrendorf is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Ralf Dahrendorf Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910203] | | | Unknown: Ralf Dahrendorf Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910210] | | | Paddy Ashdown , MP, leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Paddy Ashdown Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910210] | | | Unknown: Paddy Ashdown Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910215] | | | Paddy Ashdown. MP, leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats, talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Paddy Ashdown. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910215] | | | Unknown: Paddy Ashdown. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910217] | | | Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910217] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910222] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910224] | | | Theatre and television director Richard Eyre talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Richard Eyre Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910224] | | | Talks: Richard Eyre Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910301] | | | Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910303] | | | Sir Denis Forman , former Chairman of Granada TV and Deputy Chairman of the Royal Opera House, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Sir Denis Forman Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910303] | | | Unknown: Sir Denis Forman Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910308] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910310] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the journalist Jeffrey Bernard. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910310] | | | Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910315] | | | This week journalist Jeffrey Bernard talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to his desert island. Stereo Contributors Talks: Jeffrey Bernard |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910315] | | | Talks: Jeffrey Bernard |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910317] | | | The castaway this week is the Chairman of National Power, Sir Trevor Holdsworth. He talks to Sue Lawley and chooses his eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Sir Trevor Holdsworth. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910317] | | | Unknown: Sir Trevor Holdsworth. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910322] | | | This week Sir Trevor Holdsworth , Chairman of National Power. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Sir Trevor Holdsworth |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910322] | | | Unknown: Sir Trevor Holdsworth |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910324] | | | Entertainer Marti Caine is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Marti Caine Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910324] | | | Unknown: Marti Caine Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910329] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910331] | | | Another chance to hear Lord Charteris of Amisfield, Provost of Eton, talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo • FEATURE: page 1 1 Contributors Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910331] | | | Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910405] | | | Lord Charteris of Amisfield, Provost of Eton, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the author Naomi Mitchison. Producer Bridget Osborne. Stereo (Repeated on Friday at 9.05am; Contributors Unknown: Naomi Mitchison. Producer: Bridget Osborne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407] | | | Unknown: Naomi Mitchison. Producer: Bridget Osborne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910412] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Lord King, Chairman of British Airways and Babcock International. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo Contributors Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414] | | | Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910419] | | | Lord King is Sue Lawley's guest. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421] | | | Dr Jonathan Sacks , Chief Rabbi elect is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Dr Jonathan Sacks Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421] | | | Unknown: Dr Jonathan Sacks Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910426] | | | Dr Jonathan Sacks , Chief Rabbi elect, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Dr Jonathan Sacks |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910426] | | | Unknown: Dr Jonathan Sacks |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428] | | | Sue Lawley talks to Dame Shirley Porter , in her last week as controversial leader of Westminster City Council. Producer Ian Gardhouse Contributors Unknown: Dame Shirley Porter Producer: Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428] | | | Unknown: Dame Shirley Porter Producer: Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910503] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505] | | | Award-winning architect Richard Rogers talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Richard Rogers Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505] | | | Talks: Richard Rogers Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910510] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is architect Richard Rogers. Contributors Unknown: Richard Rogers. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910510] | | | Unknown: Richard Rogers. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910512] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is First World War pilot and author Cecil Lewis. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Cecil Lewis. Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910512] | | | Unknown: Cecil Lewis. Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910517] | | | First World War pilot and author Cecil Lewis is Sue Lawley's guest. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Cecil Lewis |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910517] | | | Unknown: Cecil Lewis |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910519] | | | BBCtv's Foreign Affairs Editor and Journalist of the Year John Simpson is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Simpson Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910519] | | | Unknown: John Simpson Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910524] | | | BBCtv's Foreign Affairs Editor John Simpson is Sue Lawley's guest. Stereo Contributors Editor: John Simpson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910524] | | | Editor: John Simpson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910526] | | | Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon John Smith , MP is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Smith Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910526] | | | Unknown: John Smith Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910531] | | | Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon John Smith , MP is Sue Lawley's guest. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Smith |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910531] | | | Unknown: John Smith |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910602] | | | Marco Pierre White , the youngest chef ever to be awarded two Michelin stars for his cooking, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Marco Pierre White Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910602] | | | Unknown: Marco Pierre White Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910607] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910609] | | | Winner of the W H Smith Literary Award, Caribbean poet Derek Walcott talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Derek Walcott Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910609] | | | Talks: Derek Walcott Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910614] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910616] | | | Writer A S Byatt is Sue Lawley's guest. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910616] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910621] | | | with guest A S Byatt. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910623] | | | This week, John Hegarty , creative director of advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Hegarty Talks: Bartle Bogle Hegarty Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910623] | | | Unknown: John Hegarty Talks: Bartle Bogle Hegarty Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910628] | | | This week John Hegarty , creative director of advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty , talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Hegarty Talks: Bartle Bogle Hegarty |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910628] | | | Unknown: John Hegarty Talks: Bartle Bogle Hegarty |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910630] | | | Ron Todd , General Secretary of the TGWU, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Ron Todd Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910630] | | | Unknown: Ron Todd Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910705] | | | Ron Todd , General Secretary of the TGWU, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Ron Todd |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910705] | | | Unknown: Ron Todd |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway Lord Shawcross looks back on a long life of high-profile politics and law. Producer Olivia Seligman , Stereo Contributors Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910712] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway Lord Shawcross looks back on a long life of high-profile politics and law. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714] | | | Another chance to hear actor John Thaw talking to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Thaw Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714] | | | Unknown: John Thaw Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910719] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is actor John Thaw. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Thaw. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910719] | | | Unknown: John Thaw. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721] | | | Lord Annan talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses his eight gramophone records. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Lord Annan Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721] | | | Talks: Lord Annan Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910726] | | | Guest Lord Annan. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728] | | | Writer Molly Keane talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Molly Keane Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728] | | | Talks: Molly Keane Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910802] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804] | | | Another chance to hear Baroness Trumpington talking to Sue Lawley about her passions, politics and pastimes. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910809] | | | Guest castaway Baroness Trumpington. Stereo f Broadcast Sun 12.15pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910811] | | | Actress Sarah Miles talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Talks: Sarah Miles Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910811] | | | Talks: Sarah Miles Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910816] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910818] | | | This week there's another chance to hear lawyer Lord Goodman talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910818] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910823] | | | Lawyer Lord Goodman talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Talks: Lord Goodman Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910823] | | | Talks: Lord Goodman Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910825] | | | This week playwright Alan Bleasdale is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Alan Bleasdale Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910825] | | | Unknown: Alan Bleasdale Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910830] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is Alan Bleasdale. Contributors Unknown: Alan Bleasdale. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910830] | | | Unknown: Alan Bleasdale. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910901] | | | Maxwell Hutchinson , modernist architect and musician, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Maxwell Hutchinson Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910901] | | | Unknown: Maxwell Hutchinson Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910906] | | | Architect and musician Maxwell Hutchinson talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Talks: Maxwell Hutchinson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910906] | | | Talks: Maxwell Hutchinson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910908] | | | Bernice Rubens , author of 17 novels and a past Booker Prize winner, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Bernice Rubens Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910908] | | | Unknown: Bernice Rubens Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910913] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910915] | | | John Banham , Director General of the CBI, discusses his life and work with Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Banham Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910915] | | | Unknown: John Banham Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910920] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910922] | | | The conductor Klaus Tennstedt talks to Sue Lawley about his life, and chooses eight records. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910922] | | | Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910927] | | | Conductor Klaus Tennstedt talks toSueLawley. Stereo Contributors Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910927] | | | Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910929] | | | Photographer David Bailey talks to Sue Lawley about his work and life as well as choosing eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical island. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Talks: David Bailey Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910929] | | | Talks: David Bailey Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911004] | | | Guest David Bailey. Stereo Contributors Unknown: David Bailey. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911004] | | | Unknown: David Bailey. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911006] | | | Cricketer Imran Khan is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Imran Khan Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911006] | | | Unknown: Imran Khan Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911011] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911013] | | | John Schlesinger , the film-maker, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: John Schlesinger Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911013] | | | Unknown: John Schlesinger Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911018] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911020] | | | Elizabeth Esteve-Coll , Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Talks: Albert Museum Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911020] | | | Unknown: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Talks: Albert Museum Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911025] | | | Elizabeth Esteve-Coll , Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Talks: Albert Museum |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911025] | | | Unknown: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll Talks: Albert Museum |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911027] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is American actor Alan Alda. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Alan Alda. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911027] | | | Unknown: Alan Alda. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911101] | | | Guest Alan Alda. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Alan Alda. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911101] | | | Unknown: Alan Alda. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911103] | | | The historian and peace campaigner EP Thompson is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo (Repeated on Friday at 9. 05am Contributors Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911103] | | | Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911108] | | | The guest is historian and peace campaigner EP Thompson. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911110] | | | The theatrical impresario LordDelfontisSue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911110] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911115] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the theatrical impresario Lord Delfont. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911117] | | | Scientist and environmental theorist James Lovelock is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: James Lovelock Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911117] | | | Unknown: James Lovelock Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911122] | | | Guest James Lovelock. Stereo Contributors Unknown: James Lovelock. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911122] | | | Unknown: James Lovelock. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911124] | | | The castaway this week is the veteran film critic Dilys Powell. She talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Dilys Powell. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911124] | | | Unknown: Dilys Powell. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911129] | | | The castaway this week is the veteran film critic Dilys Powell. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Dilys Powell. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911129] | | | Unknown: Dilys Powell. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911201] | | | Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Fred Dibnah Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911201] | | | Unknown: Fred Dibnah Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911206] | | | Guest Fred Dibnah. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Fred Dibnah. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911206] | | | Unknown: Fred Dibnah. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911208] | | | Writer Sue Townsend is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Sue Townsend Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911208] | | | Unknown: Sue Townsend Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911213] | | | The creator of Adrian Mole , Sue Townsend , is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Adrian Mole Unknown: Sue Townsend |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911213] | | | Unknown: Adrian Mole Unknown: Sue Townsend |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911215] | | | Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo Contributors Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911215] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911220] | | | This week's castaway is Dame Ninette de Valois. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911222] | | | Actor Gorden Kaye is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo Contributors Unknown: Gorden Kaye Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911222] | | | Unknown: Gorden Kaye Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911227] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911229] | | | First World War pilot and author Cecil Lewis talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo Contributors Talks: Cecil Lewis Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19911229] | | | Talks: Cecil Lewis Producer: Ian Gardhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920103] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920105] | | | Writer A SByatt talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920105] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920110] | | | GuestASByatt. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920112] | | | Writer, director and actor Steven Berkoff is Sue Lawley's guest. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920112] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920117] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920119] | | | David Jenkins , the Bishop of Durham, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920119] | | | Unknown: David Jenkins Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920124] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920126] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the Prime Minister, the RtHon John Major , MP. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920126] | | | Unknown: John Major Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920131] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon John Major , MP. Stereo (Broadcast Sun 12. 15pm; |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920131] | | | Unknown: John Major |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920202] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the writer J G Ballard. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920202] | | | Unknown: J G Ballard. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920207] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920209] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is comic actor Robbie Coltrane. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920209] | | | Unknown: Robbie Coltrane. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920214] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is comic actor Robbie Coltrane. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920214] | | | Unknown: Robbie Coltrane. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920216] | | | Sir Roger Bannister talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920216] | | | Talks: Sir Roger Bannister Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920221] | | | Sir Roger Bannister is Sue Lawley's guest. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920221] | | | Unknown: Sir Roger Bannister |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920223] | | | Singer songwriter Elvis Costello is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920223] | | | Songwriter: Elvis Costello Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920228] | | | Singer songwriter Elvis Costello is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920228] | | | Songwriter: Elvis Costello |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920301] | | | Last year's Reith lecturer, geneticist Dr Steve Jones , talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920301] | | | Talks: Dr Steve Jones Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920306] | | | Guest: Dr Steve Jones. Stereo (Broadcast Sun 12.15pm; |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920306] | | | Unknown: Dr Steve Jones. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920308] | | | The Rector of the Royal College of Art, Jocelyn Stevens , talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920308] | | | Talks: Jocelyn Stevens Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920313] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920315] | | | Sir Isaiah Berlin is Sue Lawley's guest. Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920315] | | | Producer: Gillian Hush. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920320] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920322] | | | Lady Soames is Sue Lawley's castaway Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920322] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920327] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920329] | | | Leading knitwear designer Kaffe Fassett is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920329] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920405] | | | Art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920405] | | | Unknown: Sir Ernst Gombrich Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920410] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920412] | | | Lady Soames is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920412] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920417] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920419] | | | Sir Isaiah Berlin is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920419] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920424] | | | Sir Isaiah Berlin is Sue Lawley's guest. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920426] | | | Tenor Anthony Rolfe-Johnson is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920426] | | | Tenor: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920501] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920503] | | | The Marchioness of Tavistock is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920503] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920508] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920510] | | | English rugby captain Will Carling is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920510] | | | Unknown: Will Carling Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920515] | | | English rugby captain Will Carling is Sue Lawley's castaway. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920515] | | | Unknown: Will Carling |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920517] | | | Chief Executive of Channel 4 Television Michael Grade is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920517] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920522] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920524] | | | The new Lord Chief Justice of England Lord Taylor of Gosforth is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920524] | | | Unknown: England Lord Taylor Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920529] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920531] | | | Actress Prunella Scales is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920531] | | | Unknown: Prunella Scales Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920605] | | | Guest: Prunella Scales. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920605] | | | Unknown: Prunella Scales. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920607] | | | Swimmer Duncan Goodhew is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920607] | | | Unknown: Duncan Goodhew Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920612] | | | Swimmer Duncan Goodhew is Sue Lawley's castaway. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920612] | | | Unknown: Duncan Goodhew |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920614] | | | Actor Robert Lindsay is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920614] | | | Unknown: Robert Lindsay Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920619] | | | Actor Robert Lindsay is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920619] | | | Unknown: Robert Lindsay |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920621] | | | Terry Waite is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. He will be talking about his life, recalling the years he spent in captivity, and choosing eight records to take with him to his island exile. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920621] | | | Unknown: Terry Waite Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920626] | | | Terry Waite is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. He'll be talking about his life and recalling the years he spent in captivity and choosing eight records to take with him to a desert island. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920626] | | | Unknown: Terry Waite |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920628] | | | Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920628] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920703] | | | Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is Sue Lawley's castaway. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920705] | | | Clare Short , MP is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920705] | | | Unknown: Clare Short Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920710] | | | Clare Short, MP is Sue Lawley's castaway. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920712] | | | Cameraman Mohamed Amin is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920712] | | | Unknown: Mohamed Amin Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920717] | | | Mohamed Amin is Sue Lawley's castaway. stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920717] | | | Unknown: Mohamed Amin |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920719] | | | Sir Peregrine Worsthome, columnist and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920719] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920724] | | | Sir Peregrine Worsthorne is Sue Lawley 's castaway. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920724] | | | Unknown: Sue Lawley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920726] | | | The Secretary of State for National Heritage David Mellor is Sue Lawley's castaway this week. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920726] | | | Unknown: David Mellor Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920731] | | | This week's castaway is the Secretary of State for National Heritage David Mellor. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920731] | | | Unknown: David Mellor. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802] | | | Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920807] | | | with castaway Alan Bleasdale. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920807] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809] | | | Elizabeth Esteve-Coll , Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920814] | | | Elizabeth Esteve-Coll talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920814] | | | Talks: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816] | | | Scientist and environmental theorist James Lovelock talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816] | | | Talks: James Lovelock Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920821] | | | guest: James Lovelock. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920821] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823] | | | Veteran film critic Dilys Powell talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823] | | | Talks: Dilys Powell Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920828] | | | Veteran film critic Dilys Powell talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920828] | | | Talks: Dilys Powell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920830] | | | Writer J G Ballard talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920830] | | | Talks: J G Ballard Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920904] | | | Writer J G Ballard talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920904] | | | Talks: J G Ballard |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906] | | | Bob Geldof is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906] | | | Unknown: Bob Geldof Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920911] | | | Bob Geldof talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920911] | | | Talks: Bob Geldof |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913] | | | Childcare expert Penelope Leach talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913] | | | Talks: Penelope Leach Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920918] | | | Childcare expert Penelope Leach talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920918] | | | Talks: Penelope Leach |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920920] | | | French chef Raymond Blanc is Sue Lawley's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920920] | | | Unknown: Raymond Blanc Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920925] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920927] | | | Chad Varah , priest and founder of the Samaritans, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19920927] | | | Unknown: Chad Varah Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921002] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921004] | | | Actress Juliet Stevenson talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921004] | | | Talks: Juliet Stevenson Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921009] | | | Actress Juliet Stevenson talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921009] | | | Talks: Juliet Stevenson |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921011] | | | Lord Sainsbury talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921011] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921016] | | | Lord Salisbury talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921018] | | | Julie Andrews talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Charlie Bunce. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921018] | | | Talks: Julie Andrews Producer: Charlie Bunce. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921023] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921025] | | | Gavin Laird , General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Ian Gardhouse Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921025] | | | Unknown: Gavin Laird Producer: Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921030] | | | Gavin Laird talks to Sue Lawlev. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921030] | | | Talks: Gavin Laird |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921101] | | | General Norman Schwarzkopf talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921101] | | | Talks: General Norman Schwarzkopf Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921106] | | | The guest is General Norman Schwarzkopf. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921106] | | | Unknown: Norman Schwarzkopf. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921108] | | | Author Christabel Bielenberg talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Charlie Bunce. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921108] | | | Talks: Christabel Bielenberg Producer: Charlie Bunce. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921113] | | | Author Christabel Bielenberg talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921113] | | | Talks: Christabel Bielenberg |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115] | | | Derek Walcott , the poet who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligmann. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115] | | | Unknown: Derek Walcott Producer: Olivia Seligmann. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921120] | | | With the geneticist Dr Steve Jones. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921120] | | | Unknown: Dr Steve Jones. Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122] | | | Conductor John Eliot Gardiner talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122] | | | Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner Unknown: Sue Lawley Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921127] | | | With castaway conductor John Eliot Gardiner. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921127] | | | Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129] | | | Lord Tebbit talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129] | | | Talks: Lord Tebbit Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921204] | | | Lord Tebbit talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921204] | | | Talks: Lord Tebbit |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206] | | | Carmen Callil , the founder of Virago, the feminist publishing house, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206] | | | Unknown: Carmen Callil Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921211] | | | Carmen Callil. the founder of Virago, the feminist publishing house, talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921211] | | | Unknown: Carmen Callil. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921213] | | | Professor Ghillean Prance , Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921213] | | | Unknown: Professor Ghillean Prance Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921218] | | | Prof (ihillean Prance. Director of Kew Gardens, talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220] | | | Designer Paul Smith talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220] | | | Talks: Paul Smith Producer: Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921225] | | | Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921225] | | | Producer: Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227] | | | Stephen Hawking , author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227] | | | Unknown: Stephen Hawking |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930101] | | | Guest Paul Smith. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930101] | | | Unknown: Paul Smith. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930103] | | | Poet Elizabeth Jennings talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930103] | | | Talks: Elizabeth Jennings Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930108] | | | Poet Elizabeth Jennings talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930108] | | | Talks: Elizabeth Jennings |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930110] | | | Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills QC talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930110] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930115] | | | Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , QC, talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930115] | | | Unknown: Barbara Mills |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930117] | | | Travel writer Dervla Murphy talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930117] | | | Talks: Dervla Murphy Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930122] | | | Travel writer Dervla Murphy talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930122] | | | Talks: Dervla Murphy |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930124] | | | Percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930124] | | | Talks: Evelyn Glennie Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930129] | | | Percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930129] | | | Talks: Evelyn Glennie |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930131] | | | Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930131] | | | Talks: Dr Anthony Storr Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930205] | | | Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930205] | | | Talks: Dr Anthony Storr |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930207] | | | Another chance to hear the actor Robert Lindsay choose eight records to take to his island exile. Producer Janet Lee. Stereo |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930207] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930212] | | | Unknown: Clare Short Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930214] | | | Another chance to hear the Chief Executive of Channel 4 Television, Michael Grade , choose eight records to take into exile. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930214] | | | Unknown: Michael Grade Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930219] | | | Another chance to hear the singer/songwriter Elvis Costello choose eight records to take into exile. Producer Janet Lee. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930219] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221] | | | Cabinet Secretary Sir Robin Butler talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930221] | | | Talks: Robin Butler Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930226] | | | Cabinet Secretary Sir Robin Butler talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930226] | | | Talks: Robin Butler |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228] | | | Theatre, opera and television director Elijah Moshinsky talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930228] | | | Talks: Elijah Moshinsky Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930305] | | | The castaway this week is theatre, opera and television director Elijah Moshinsky. He talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930305] | | | Director: Elijah Moshinsky. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307] | | | Ken Livingstone , MP talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930307] | | | Unknown: Ken Livingstone Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930312] | | | Ken Livingstone. MP talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930312] | | | Unknown: Ken Livingstone. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314] | | | Television writer and producer David Croft talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930314] | | | Talks: David Croft Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930319] | | | Television writer and Producer David Croft talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930319] | | | Talks: David Croft |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321] | | | Another chance to hear author Christabel Bielenberg choose eight records. Producer Charlie Bunce |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321] | | | Unknown: Christabel Bielenberg Producer: Charlie Bunce |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930326] | | | Another chance to hear the Musician and creator of Band Aid, Bob Geldof , choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930326] | | | Unknown: Bob Geldof Producer: Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328] | | | Another chance to hear Sir Isaiah Berlin choose eight records to take to his island exile. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930402] | | | Another chance to hear actress Juliet Stevenson choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seiigman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930402] | | | Unknown: Juliet Stevenson Producer: Olivia Seiigman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404] | | | Scientist Professor Richard Gregory talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404] | | | Talks: Richard Gregory Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930409] | | | The eminent scientist Professor Richard Gregory talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930409] | | | Talks: Professor Richard Gregory Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930411] | | | Horse-racing expert Lord Oaksey talks to Sue Lawley. producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930411] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930416] | | | Lord Oaksey talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418] | | | Chef Anton Edelmann talks to Sue Lawley. producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418] | | | Talks: Anton Edelmann Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930423] | | | Top chef Anton Edelmann talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930423] | | | Talks: Anton Edelmann |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425] | | | Master of Birkbeck College Tessa Blackstone talks toSueLawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930430] | | | Master of Birkbeck College Tessa Blackstone talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502] | | | Director John Boorman talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502] | | | Talks: John Boorman Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930507] | | | Film director John Boorman talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930507] | | | Talks: John Boorman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509] | | | Political commentator John Cole talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509] | | | Talks: John Cole Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930514] | | | Political commentator John Cole talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930514] | | | Talks: John Cole |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516] | | | The world leader of the Salvation Army, General Eva Burrows , talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516] | | | Talks: Eva Burrows Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930521] | | | 'he castaway is General Eva Burrows. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930521] | | | Unknown: Eva Burrows. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930523] | | | Managing director ot GEC Lord Weinstock talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930523] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930528] | | | Managing director of GEC Lord Weinstock talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930530] | | | Kaye Webb , founder of Puffin Books for children, talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930530] | | | Unknown: Kaye Webb Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930604] | | | Kaye Webb , founder of Puffin Books for children, talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930604] | | | Unknown: Kaye Webb Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930606] | | | Boxer Frank Bruno talks to Sue Lawley and chooses eight pieces of music to take with him to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930606] | | | Talks: Boxer Frank Bruno Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930611] | | | Boxer Frank Bruno talks to Sue Lawley and chooses his eight records. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930611] | | | Talks: Boxer Frank Bruno |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930613] | | | Speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd talks to Sue Lawley and chooses her eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930613] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930618] | | | Speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930620] | | | Singer Joan Baez talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930620] | | | Singer: Joan Baez Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930625] | | | Singer Joan Baez talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930625] | | | Singer: Joan Baez |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930627] | | | EC Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan talks to Sue Lawley and chooses his eight favourite records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930627] | | | Talks: Sir Leon Brittan Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930702] | | | EC Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930702] | | | Talks: Sir Leon Brittan |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930704] | | | Writer Peter Mayle talks to Sue Lawley and chooses his eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930704] | | | Talks: Peter Mayle Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930709] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930711] | | | Theatre director Nicholas Hytner talks to Sue Lawley and chooses his eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930711] | | | Talks: Nicholas Hytner Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930716] | | | Theatre director Nicholas Hytner talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930716] | | | Talks: Nicholas Hytner |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930723] | | | General Norman Schwarzkopf chooses eight records. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930723] | | | Unknown: General Norman Schwarzkopf Producer: Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930730] | | | The Marchioness of Tavistock chooses eight records. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930730] | | | Producer: Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930806] | | | Vivienne Westwood chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930806] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930813] | | | Another chance to hear Jocelyn Stevens choose eight records. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930813] | | | Unknown: Jocelyn Stevens Producer: Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930820] | | | Another chance to hear Julie Andrews choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930820] | | | Unknown: Julie Andrews Producer: Ian Gardhouse |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930827] | | | Another chance to hear Sir Peregrine Worsthorne choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Janet Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930827] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930903] | | | Lady Soames choose eight records to take to the mythical island. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930910] | | | Musician Evelyn Glennie chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930910] | | | Musician: Evelyn Glennie Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930912] | | | The first castaway in this new series is writer Isabel Allende who will be talking to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930912] | | | Unknown: Isabel Allende Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930917] | | | The first castaway in this new series is writer Isabel Allende. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930917] | | | Unknown: Isabel Allende. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930919] | | | Comedian Paul Merton talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930919] | | | Talks: Paul Merton Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930924] | | | Comedian Paul Merton talks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930924] | | | Talks: Paul Merton |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930926] | | | The chairman of the Arts Council, Lord Palumbo , talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930926] | | | Talks: Lord Palumbo Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931001] | | | The castaway this week is chairman of the Arts Council, Lord Palumbo. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931003] | | | The castaway this week is the Secretary of State for Health, Virginia Bottomley. She will be talking to Sue Lawley about her life and work and choosing eight records to take on her island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931003] | | | Unknown: Virginia Bottomley. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931008] | | | The castaway is Virginia Bottomley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931008] | | | Unknown: Virginia Bottomley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931010] | | | Opera singer Lesley Garrett is this week's castaway. She talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931010] | | | Singer: Lesley Garrett Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931015] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931017] | | | The American ambassador in London, Raymond Seitz , talks to Sue Lawley. ProducerOlivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931017] | | | Talks: Raymond Seitz Unknown: Producerolivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931022] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931024] | | | Disc jockey Kenny Everett talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931024] | | | Talks: Kenny Everett Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931029] | | | With disc jockey Kenny Everett. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931029] | | | Unknown: Kenny Everett. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931031] | | | HM Chief Inspector of Prisons,, Judge Stephen Tumim is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931031] | | | Unknown: Judge Stephen Tumim Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931105] | | | Judge Stephen Tumin , HM Chief Inspector °f Prisons, is this week's castaway. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931105] | | | Unknown: Stephen Tumin |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931107] | | | Author Sybil Marshall is this week's castaway. ProducerOlivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931107] | | | Unknown: Sybil Marshall Unknown: Producerolivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931112] | | | Author Sybil Marshall is this week's castaway. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931112] | | | Unknown: Sybil Marshall |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114] | | | Actress Shirley Anne Field talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114] | | | Talks: Shirley Anne Field Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931119] | | | Actress Shirley Anne Fieldtalks to Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931119] | | | Unknown: Shirley Anne Fieldtalks Unknown: Sue Lawley. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121] | | | The castaway this week is author Doris Lessing who talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121] | | | Unknown: Doris Lessing Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931126] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128] | | | This week's castaway is the campaigner for disabled people, Lord Ashley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931203] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931205] | | | Another chance to hear Professor Richard Gregory make his choice. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931205] | | | Unknown: Richard Gregory Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931210] | | | Another chance to hear Lord Weinstock choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931210] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931212] | | | Another chance to hear Frank Bruno choose his eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931212] | | | Unknown: Frank Bruno Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931217] | | | Another chance to hear Kaye Webb choose eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931217] | | | Unknown: Kaye Webb Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931219] | | | Phil Collins chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931219] | | | Unknown: Phil Collins |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931224] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931224] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931226] | | | The castaway choosing eight records this Week is the veteran campaigner for disabled people, Lord Ashley. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931226] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19931231] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940102] | | | The castaway this week is eminent neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940102] | | | Unknown: Dr Oliver Sacks. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940107] | | | The castaway this week is eminent neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940107] | | | Unknown: Dr Oliver Sacks. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940109] | | | Satirist Ian Hislop talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. Producer Olivia Selignan |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940109] | | | Talks: Ian Hislop Producer: Olivia Selignan |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940114] | | | Satirist Ian Hislop talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940114] | | | Talks: Ian Hislop |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940116] | | | The castaway this week is composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. He talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940116] | | | Unknown: Harrison Birtwistle. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940121] | | | The castaway this week is composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940121] | | | Unknown: Harrison Birtwistle. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940123] | | | Playwright Willy Russell talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940123] | | | Talks: Willy Russell Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940128] | | | Playwright Willy Russell is this week's castaway. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940128] | | | Unknown: Willy Russell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940130] | | | Dame Cicely Saunders , the founder of the hospice movement, is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940130] | | | Unknown: Dame Cicely Saunders Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940204] | | | The castaway this week is the founder of the hospice movement, Dame Cicely Saunders. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940204] | | | Unknown: Dame Cicely Saunders. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940206] | | | Writer Douglas Adams talks about his life and work, and chooses eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940206] | | | Talks: Douglas Adams Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940211] | | | Writer Douglas Adams makes his choice as this week's castaway. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940211] | | | Unknown: Douglas Adams |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940213] | | | Gardening expert Rosemary Verey is this week's castaway. She talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses eight records to take on her island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940213] | | | Unknown: Rosemary Verey Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940218] | | | with gardening expert Rosemary Verey. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940218] | | | Unknown: Rosemary Verey. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940220] | | | Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke , MP, is this week's castaway. He talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940220] | | | Unknown: Kenneth Clarke Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940225] | | | The castaway this week is Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke , MP. He talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work and chooses eight records to take on his island exile. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940225] | | | Unknown: Kenneth Clarke |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940227] | | | Writer Frances Partridge talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses eight records for her island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940227] | | | Talks: Frances Partridge Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940304] | | | Writer Frances Partridge is this week's castaway choosing eight records to take on her island exile. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940304] | | | Unknown: Frances Partridge |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940306] | | | Traveller Christina Dodwell talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940306] | | | Talks: Christina Dodwell Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940311] | | | Traveller Christina Dodwell talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940311] | | | Talks: Christina Dodwell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940313] | | | Another chance to hear Lesley Garrett choose her eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940313] | | | Unknown: Lesley Garrett Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940318] | | | Another chance to hear castaway Kenny Everett choose eight records to take on his island exile. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940318] | | | Unknown: Kenny Everett |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940320] | | | Speaker of the House, Betty Boothroyd , is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940320] | | | Unknown: Betty Boothroyd Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940325] | | | Lord Oaksey is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940325] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940327] | | | with newspaper proprietor Conrad Black. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940327] | | | Unknown: Conrad Black. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940401] | | | Newspaper proprietor Conrad Black is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940401] | | | Unknown: Conrad Black Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940403] | | | Explorer Sir Ranuiph Fiennes talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940403] | | | Talks: Sir Ranuiph Fiennes Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940408] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940410] | | | Poet Roger McGough talks to Sue Lawley and chooses eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940410] | | | Talks: Roger McGough Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940415] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940417] | | | with musician Alan Hacker. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940417] | | | Musician: Alan Hacker. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940422] | | | The castaway this week is the musician Alan Hacker. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940422] | | | Musician: Alan Hacker. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940424] | | | Television newsman Trevor McDonald is this week's castaway. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940424] | | | Unknown: Trevor McDonald Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940429] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940501] | | | Storyteller Garrison Keillor talks about his writing and chooses his eight favourite records. Producer Olivia Seligman SEE THIS WEEK page 9 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940501] | | | Talks: Garrison Keillor Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940506] | | | with storyteller Garrison Keillor. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940506] | | | Unknown: Garrison Keillor. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940508] | | | The castaway this week is Sir John Wilson , CBE, who has spent his life improving conditions for blind people. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940508] | | | Unknown: Sir John Wilson Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940513] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940515] | | | With television reporter Kate Adie. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940515] | | | Reporter: Kate Adie. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940520] | | | Television reporter Kate Adie is this Week's castaway. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940520] | | | Reporter: Kate Adie |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940522] | | | Actress Britt Ekland is this week's castaway, choosing her eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940522] | | | Unknown: Britt Ekland Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940527] | | | 'Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm) |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940529] | | | The castaway this week is the trainer and former jump jockey Peter Scudamore. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940529] | | | Unknown: Peter Scudamore. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940603] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940605] | | | with critic and writer Milton Shulman. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940605] | | | Unknown: Milton Shulman. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940610] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940612] | | | with the actress Zoe Wanamaker. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940612] | | | Unknown: Zoe Wanamaker. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940617] | | | with Zoe Wanamaker. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940617] | | | Unknown: Zoe Wanamaker. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940619] | | | with art critic Brian Sewell. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940619] | | | Unknown: Brian Sewell. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940624] | | | with art critic Brian Sewell. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940624] | | | Unknown: Brian Sewell. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940626] | | | with John Drummond , director of the BBC Proms (which start on 15 July). Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940626] | | | Unknown: John Drummond Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940701] | | | with John Drummond. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940701] | | | Unknown: John Drummond. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940703] | | | with the broadcaster Derek Jameson. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940703] | | | Unknown: Derek Jameson. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940708] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940710] | | | with Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940710] | | | Unknown: Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940715] | | | with Rabbi Hugo Gryn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940715] | | | Unknown: Rabbi Hugo Gryn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940722] | | | with author Sybil Marshall. Producer Olivia Seligman (fiptj |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940722] | | | Unknown: Sybil Marshall. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940729] | | | with actress Shirley Anne Field. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940729] | | | Unknown: Shirley Anne Field. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940805] | | | with Sir Leon Brittan. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940805] | | | Unknown: Sir Leon Brittan. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940812] | | | with writer Isabel Allende. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940812] | | | Unknown: Isabel Allende. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940819] | | | with the former American Ambassador in London, Raymond Seitz. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940819] | | | Unknown: Raymond Seitz. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940826] | | | with the Master of Birbeck College, Tessa Blackstone. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940826] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940902] | | | with author Doris Lessing. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940902] | | | Unknown: Doris Lessing. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940909] | | | with Dr Oliver Sacks. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940909] | | | Unknown: Dr Oliver Sacks. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940911] | | | Sue Lawley talks to the novelist Joanna Trollope about her life and work. Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940911] | | | Unknown: Joanna Trollope |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940916] | | | with novelist Joanna Trollope. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940916] | | | Unknown: Joanna Trollope. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940918] | | | Composer John Tavener talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Sellgman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940918] | | | Talks: John Tavener Producer: Olivia Sellgman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940923] | | | With composer John Tavener. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940923] | | | Unknown: John Tavener. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940925] | | | Mary Stott , former Guardian women's editor, talks about her life and work. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940925] | | | Unknown: Mary Stott Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940930] | | | with the former Guardian women's editor Mary Stott. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19940930] | | | Editor: Mary Stott. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941002] | | | with Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford James Fenton. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941002] | | | Unknown: James Fenton. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941007] | | | with Professor James Fenton. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941007] | | | Unknown: Professor James Fenton. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941009] | | | Sue Lawley talks to Jeanette Winterson. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941009] | | | Unknown: Jeanette Winterson. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941014] | | | Sue Lawley talks to Jeanette Winterson. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941014] | | | Unknown: Jeanette Winterson. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941016] | | | With the Chairman of Glyndebourne Productions, Sir George Christie. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941016] | | | Unknown: Sir George Christie. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941021] | | | The castaway this week is the Chairman of Glyndebourne Productions, Sir George Christie. He Will be talking to Sue Lawley about his life and work and choosing eight records to take to the island. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941021] | | | Unknown: Sir George Christie. Unknown: Sue Lawley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941023] | | | Sue Lawley talks to Lynda La Plante. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941023] | | | Unknown: Lynda La Plante. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941028] | | | The castaway this week is the screenwriter Lynda La Plante. She will be talking to Sue Lawley about her life and work and choosing eight records to take to her island exile. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941028] | | | Unknown: Lynda La Plante. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941030] | | | With children's author Kathleen Hale. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941030] | | | Unknown: Kathleen Hale. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941104] | | | with children's author Kathleen Hale. Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941104] | | | Unknown: Kathleen Hale. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941106] | | | with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941106] | | | Unknown: Desmond Tutu. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941111] | | | with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941111] | | | Unknown: Desmond Tutu. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941113] | | | with composer Berthold Goldschmidt. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941113] | | | Unknown: Berthold Goldschmidt. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941118] | | | Sue Lawley talks to composer Berthold Goldschmidt. Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941118] | | | Unknown: Berthold Goldschmidt. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941120] | | | Glehys Kinnock MEP talks about her life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941120] | | | Unknown: Glehys Kinnock Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941125] | | | with Glenys Kinnock MEP. Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941125] | | | Unknown: Glenys Kinnock |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941127] | | | with the painter Sir Howard Hodgkin. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941127] | | | Unknown: Sir Howard Hodgkin. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941202] | | | The castaway this week is one of Britain's foremost painters, Sir Howard Hodgkin. He talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work, and chooses eight records to take to his mythical island. Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941202] | | | Unknown: Howard Hodgkin. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941204] | | | with the writer Margaret Forster. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941204] | | | Unknown: Margaret Forster. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941209] | | | Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941211] | | | with TV newsman Trevor McDonald. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941211] | | | Unknown: Trevor McDonald. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941216] | | | Another chance to hear veteran campaigner for the disabled, Lord Ashley, choose his eight records. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941216] | | | Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941218] | | | Gardening expert Penelope Hobhouse talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941218] | | | Talks: Penelope Hobhouse Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941223] | | | With Penelope Hobhouse. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941223] | | | Unknown: Penelope Hobhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941225] | | | With actor David Jason OBE. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941225] | | | Unknown: David Jason OBE. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19941230] | | | Repeated from Christmas Day 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950101] | | | with the political diarist, Alan Clark MP. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950101] | | | Unknown: Alan Clark Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950106] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950108] | | | with the actress Patricia Hodge. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950108] | | | Unknown: Patricia Hodge. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950113] | | | with the actress Patricia Hodge. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950113] | | | Unknown: Patricia Hodge. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950115] | | | with TV executive Phil Redmond. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950115] | | | Unknown: Phil Redmond. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950120] | | | with TV executive Phil Redmond. Repeated from Sunday |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950120] | | | Unknown: Phil Redmond. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950122] | | | with the zoologist Dr Richard Dawkins. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950122] | | | Unknown: Dr Richard Dawkins. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950127] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950129] | | | with industrialist Sir Adrian Cadbury. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950129] | | | Unknown: Sir Adrian Cadbury. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950203] | | | Repeated from Sunday at 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950205] | | | with television reporter Kate Adie. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950205] | | | Reporter: Kate Adie. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950210] | | | with the founder of the Hospice Movement, Dame Cicely Saunders. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950210] | | | Unknown: Dame Cicely Saunders. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950212] | | | with storyteller Garrison Keillor. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950212] | | | Unknown: Garrison Keillor. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950217] | | | with Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950217] | | | Unknown: Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950219] | | | with Jimmy Knapp , Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950219] | | | Unknown: Jimmy Knapp Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950224] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950226] | | | with actor Christopher Lee. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950226] | | | Unknown: Christopher Lee. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950303] | | | This week's castaway is the actor Christopher Lee , who talks to Sue Lawley about his life and work. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm * See This Week: page 7 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950303] | | | Unknown: Christopher Lee |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950305] | | | with historian Prof Eric Hobsbawm. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950305] | | | Unknown: Prof Eric Hobsbawm. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950310] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950312] | | | with writer Nigel Nicolson. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950312] | | | Unknown: Nigel Nicolson. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950317] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950319] | | | with music critic Felix Aprahamian. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950319] | | | Unknown: Felix Aprahamian. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950324] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950326] | | | with Mary Stott , former Guardian Women's Editor. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950326] | | | Unknown: Mary Stott Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950331] | | | with actress Zoe Wanamaker. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950331] | | | Unknown: Zoe Wanamaker. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950402] | | | with novelist Nina Bawden. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950402] | | | Unknown: Nina Bawden. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950407] | | | Novelist Nina Bawden chooses eight records to take to her island exile. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950407] | | | Unknown: Nina Bawden |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950409] | | | with countertenor James Bowman. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Good Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950409] | | | Unknown: James Bowman. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950414] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950416] | | | ,With actor Hugh Grant. Producer Olivia Seiigman. Rptd Fri 9.05am * See This Week: page 12 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950416] | | | Unknown: Hugh Grant. Producer: Olivia Seiigman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950421] | | | Repeated from Easter Day 6.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950423] | | | with composer George Lloyd. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950423] | | | Unknown: George Lloyd. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950428] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950430] | | | with record producer Pete Waterman. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950430] | | | Producer: Pete Waterman. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950505] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950507] | | | with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am * See This Week: page 7 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950507] | | | Unknown: Dr George Carey. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950512] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950514] | | | with the playwright Neil Simon. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950514] | | | Unknown: Neil Simon. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950519] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950521] | | | with Sir Bernard Ingham. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950521] | | | Unknown: Sir Bernard Ingham. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950526] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950528] | | | with the singer Marianne Faithfull. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950528] | | | Singer: Marianne Faithfull. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950602] | | | with Marianne Faithfull. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950602] | | | Unknown: Marianne Faithfull. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950604] | | | Actor and mountaineer Brian Blessed chooses eight favourite records. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950604] | | | Unknown: Brian Blessed Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950609] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950611] | | | with blues guitarist John Lee Hooker. Producer Dymphna Flynn. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950611] | | | Guitarist: John Lee Hooker. Producer: Dymphna Flynn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950616] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950618] | | | with heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950618] | | | Unknown: Magdi Yacoub. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950623] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950625] | | | with clothes designer Jasper Conran. Producer Dymphna Flynn. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950625] | | | Designer: Jasper Conran. Producer: Dymphna Flynn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950630] | | | with clothes designer Jasper Conran. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950630] | | | Designer: Jasper Conran. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950702] | | | with the Duke of Westminster. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950702] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950707] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950709] | | | With actress Wendy Richard. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950709] | | | Unknown: Wendy Richard. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950714] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950721] | | | With children's author Kathleen Hale. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950721] | | | Unknown: Kathleen Hale. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950728] | | | With nonagenarian composer Berthold Goldschmidt. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950728] | | | Unknown: Berthold Goldschmidt. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950804] | | | With Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950804] | | | Unknown: Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950811] | | | With novelist Joanna Trollope. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950811] | | | Unknown: Joanna Trollope. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950818] | | | With Sir John Wilson CBE. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950818] | | | Unknown: Sir John Wilson Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950825] | | | With political diarist Alan Clark MP. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950825] | | | Unknown: Alan Clark Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950901] | | | With screenwriter Lynda La Plante. Producer Olivia seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950901] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950908] | | | With Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950908] | | | Unknown: Desmond Tutu. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950910] | | | John Updike chooses eight records to take to his mythical island exile. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950910] | | | Unknown: John Updike Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950915] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950917] | | | With environmentalist Max Nicholson. Producer Dymphna Flynn. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950917] | | | Unknown: Max Nicholson. Producer: Dymphna Flynn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950922] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950924] | | | With Maurice Saatchi. Producer Dymphna Rynn. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950924] | | | Unknown: Maurice Saatchi. Producer: Dymphna Rynn. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19950929] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951001] | | | With racehorse trainer Jenny Pitman. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951001] | | | Unknown: Jenny Pitman. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951006] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951008] | | | With BBC1 Controller Alan Yentob. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951008] | | | Unknown: Alan Yentob. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951013] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951015] | | | Academic and author Richard Hoggart talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951015] | | | Talks: Richard Hoggart Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951020] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951022] | | | With songwriter Don Black. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951022] | | | Songwriter: Don Black. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951027] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951029] | | | With writer Umberto Eco. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951029] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951103] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951105] | | | With Secretary of State for Education and Employment, Gillian Shephard. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951105] | | | Unknown: Gillian Shephard. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951110] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951112] | | | With writer Umberto Eco. Postponed from Sunday 29 October. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951112] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951117] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951119] | | | With George Martin. Producer Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951119] | | | Unknown: George Martin. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951124] | | | With George Martin Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951124] | | | Unknown: George Martin Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951126] | | | With the composer George Lloyd. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951126] | | | Unknown: George Lloyd. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951201] | | | With record producer Pete Waterman. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951201] | | | Producer: Pete Waterman. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951203] | | | With actress Alison Steadman. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951203] | | | Unknown: Alison Steadman. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951208] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951210] | | | With industrialist Sir Adrian Cadbury. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951210] | | | Unknown: Sir Adrian Cadbury. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951215] | | | With the writer Nigel Nicolson. Producer Oliva Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951215] | | | Unknown: Nigel Nicolson. Producer: Oliva Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951217] | | | This week's castaway is poet and academic Dr George "Dadie" Rylands. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951217] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951222] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951224] | | | With actress and singer Petula Clarke. Repeated on Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951224] | | | Singer: Petula Clarke. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951229] | | | Repeated from Christmas Eve 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951231] | | | This week's castaway is Lady Tebbit. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19951231] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960105] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960107] | | | With castaway Christopher Hampton. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960107] | | | Unknown: Christopher Hampton. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960112] | | | With castaway Christopher Hampton. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960112] | | | Unknown: Christopher Hampton. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960114] | | | With writer Jimmy McGovern. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960114] | | | Unknown: Jimmy McGovern. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960119] | | | Sue Lawley talks to writer Jimmy McGovern as he chooses eight records to take to his island exile. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960119] | | | Unknown: Jimmy McGovern |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960121] | | | Sue Lawley talks to Chili Bouchier. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960121] | | | Unknown: Chili Bouchier. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960126] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960128] | | | With novelist Julian Barnes. Producer Olivia Seligman Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960128] | | | Unknown: Julian Barnes. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960202] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960204] | | | With photographer Eve Arnold. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960204] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960209] | | | Sue Lawley talks to photographer Eve Arnold. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960211] | | | Sue Lawley talks to writer Susan Hill. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960211] | | | Unknown: Susan Hill. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960216] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960218] | | | With the philosopher Professor George Steiner. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960218] | | | Unknown: George Steiner. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960223] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960225] | | | With surgeon Sir Roy Calne. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960225] | | | Unknown: Roy Calne. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960301] | | | With the surgeon Sir Roy Calne. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960301] | | | Unknown: Roy Calne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960303] | | | Gordon Brown MP talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960303] | | | Unknown: Gordon Brown Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960308] | | | With Gordon Brown MP. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960308] | | | Unknown: Gordon Brown |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960310] | | | Another chance to hear Richard Hoggart , academic and author. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960310] | | | Unknown: Richard Hoggart Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960315] | | | With playwright Neil Simon. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960315] | | | Unknown: Neil Simon. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960317] | | | With Lord Alexander, chairman of the National Westminster Bank. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960317] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960322] | | | With Lord Alexander. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960324] | | | With opera singer Kyra Vayne. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960324] | | | Singer: Kyra Vayne. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960329] | | | With opera singer Kyra Vayne. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960329] | | | Singer: Kyra Vayne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960331] | | | With Falklands veteran Simon Weston. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Good Fh 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960331] | | | Unknown: Simon Weston. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960405] | | | With Falkland's veteran Simon Weston. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960405] | | | Unknown: Simon Weston. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960407] | | | With cricket umpire Dickie Bird. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960407] | | | Unknown: Dickie Bird. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960412] | | | With cricket umpire Dickie Bird. Repeated from Easter Day 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960412] | | | Unknown: Dickie Bird. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960414] | | | With Viscount Rothermere. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960414] | | | Unknown: Viscount Rothermere. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960419] | | | With Viscount Rothermere. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960419] | | | Unknown: Viscount Rothermere. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960421] | | | With author Hanif Kureishi. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960421] | | | Unknown: Hanif Kureishi. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960426] | | | With author Hanif Kureishi. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960426] | | | Unknown: Hanif Kureishi. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960428] | | | With pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Producer Tony Phillips. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960428] | | | Pianist: Mitsuko Uchida. Producer: Tony Phillips. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960503] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960505] | | | With actress Pauline Quirke. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960505] | | | Unknown: Pauline Quirke. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960510] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960512] | | | With actor and comedian Hugh Laurie. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rtd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960512] | | | Unknown: Hugh Laurie. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960517] | | | With actor and comedian Hugh Laurie. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960517] | | | Unknown: Hugh Laurie. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960519] | | | With impresario Janet Holmes a Court. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960519] | | | Unknown: Janet Holmes Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960524] | | | With impresario Janet Holmes a Court. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960524] | | | Unknown: Janet Holmes |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960526] | | | With theatre and film producer Michael White. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960526] | | | Producer: Michael White. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960531] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960602] | | | With television executive Gerry Robinson. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960602] | | | Unknown: Gerry Robinson. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960607] | | | Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960609] | | | With actress Peggy Mount. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960609] | | | Unknown: Peggy Mount. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960614] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960616] | | | With writer Quentin Crewe. Producer Olivia Seligman. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960616] | | | Unknown: Quentin Crewe. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960621] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960628] | | | With writer Elizabeth Jane Howard. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960628] | | | Unknown: Elizabeth Jane Howard. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960705] | | | With Lady Margaret Tebbit. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960705] | | | Unknown: Lady Margaret Tebbit. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960712] | | | With George Martin. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960712] | | | Unknown: George Martin. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960719] | | | With Professor George Steiner. Producer Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960719] | | | Unknown: Professor George Steiner. Producer: Olivia Seligman Rpt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960726] | | | With photographer Eve Arnold. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960726] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960802] | | | With novelist Julian Barnes. Producer Olivia Selip. man Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960802] | | | Unknown: Julian Barnes. Producer: Olivia Selip. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960809] | | | With Chili Bouchier. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960809] | | | Unknown: Chili Bouchier. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960816] | | | With writer Susan Hill. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960816] | | | Unknown: Susan Hill. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960818] | | | With conductor Andre Previn. Producer Olivia Seligman Rptd Fri 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960818] | | | Conductor: Andre Previn. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960823] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960825] | | | With the cellist and concentration camp survivor Anita Lasker. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960825] | | | Unknown: Anita Lasker. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960830] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960901] | | | With designer Sir Terence Conran. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960901] | | | Designer: Sir Terence Conran. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960906] | | | Repeated from Sunday 12.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960908] | | | With scientist Professor COlin BiaKemore. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960908] | | | Unknown: Professor Colin Biakemore. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960913] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960915] | | | With actor Kevin Whately. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am * See This Week: page 12 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960915] | | | Unknown: Kevin Whately. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960920] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960922] | | | With poet and lyricist Fran Landesman. Producer Angle Nehnng. Repeated Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960922] | | | Unknown: Fran Landesman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960927] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960929] | | | With comedian and writer Ben Elton. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19960929] | | | Unknown: Ben Elton. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961004] | | | This week,comic Ben Elton. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961004] | | | Unknown: Ben Elton. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961006] | | | With scientist Professor Lewis Wolpert. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961006] | | | Unknown: Professor Lewis Wolpert. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961011] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961013] | | | With author Rumer Godden. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961013] | | | Unknown: Rumer Godden. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961018] | | | With author Rumer Godden. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961018] | | | Unknown: Rumer Godden. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961020] | | | With footballing legend Jack Charlton. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961020] | | | Unknown: Jack Charlton. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961025] | | | Football hero Jack Charlton. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961025] | | | Unknown: Jack Charlton. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961027] | | | With wine expert Jancis Robinson. Read more about her castaway selections in Friday's radio choice. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961027] | | | Unknown: Jancis Robinson. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961101] | | | Wine critic Jancis Robinson. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961101] | | | Unknown: Jancis Robinson. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961103] | | | With Chris Patten , the Governor of Hong Kong. Read more about this week's castaway in Friday's radio choice. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961103] | | | Unknown: Chris Patten Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961108] | | | With castaway guest Chris Patten. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961108] | | | Unknown: Chris Patten. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961110] | | | With writer Sir Laurens van der Post. Read more about this week's castaway in Friday's radio choice. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961110] | | | Unknown: Sir Laurens van Der Post. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961115] | | | With writer, traveller and philosopher Sir Laurens van der Post. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961115] | | | Unknown: Sir Laurens van Der Post. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961117] | | | With Olympic athlete Tessa Sanderson. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am + Tessa Sanderson 's Choice: page 8 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961117] | | | Unknown: Tessa Sanderson. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961122] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961124] | | | This week's castaway is Tony Blair. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am ♦ See This Week: page 7 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961124] | | | Unknown: Tony Blair. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961129] | | | This week's castaway is Tony Blair. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm * See This Week: page 7 |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961129] | | | Unknown: Tony Blair. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961201] | | | This week's castaway is Bruce Forsyth. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961201] | | | Unknown: Bruce Forsyth. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961206] | | | This week's castaway is Bruce Forsyth. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961206] | | | Unknown: Bruce Forsyth. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961208] | | | This week's castaway is IVF specialist Professor Robert Winston. See Friday's radio choice panel for more details. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961208] | | | Unknown: Professor Robert Winston. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961213] | | | This week's castaway is IVF specialist Professor Robert Winston. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961213] | | | Unknown: Professor Robert Winston. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961215] | | | The castaway is rocker Ian Dury. Read more about him on Friday's radio page. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday at 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961215] | | | Unknown: Ian Dury. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961220] | | | Singer Ian Dury 's castaway selection. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961220] | | | Singer: Ian Dury |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961222] | | | With Jennifer Saunders. For more details, read the radio choice on page 199. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 27 December 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961222] | | | Unknown: Jennifer Saunders. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961227] | | | This week's castaway is actress and comedian Jennifer Saunders. Repeated from Sunday 22 December 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961227] | | | Unknown: Jennifer Saunders. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961229] | | | This week's castaway is author Martin Amis. For more details, read the radio choice on page 213. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 3 January 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19961229] | | | Unknown: Martin Amis. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970103] | | | This week's castaway is Martin Amis. Repeated from Sunday 29 December 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970103] | | | Unknown: Martin Amis. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970105] | | | This week's castaway is John Cleese. See Friday's radio choice on page 137. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970105] | | | Unknown: John Cleese. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970110] | | | With John Cleese. Repeated from Sunday |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970110] | | | Unknown: John Cleese. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970112] | | | With Sir Laurens van der Post. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970112] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970117] | | | With Jimmy McGovern. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970117] | | | Unknown: Jimmy McGovern. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970119] | | | Another chance to hear Hugh Laurie. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970119] | | | Unknown: Hugh Laurie. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970124] | | | Pianist Mitsuko Uchida reveals she's a huge fan of Bach and Schubert. Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970124] | | | Pianist: Mitsuko Uchida |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970126] | | | The castaway is Irene Thomas. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970126] | | | Unknown: Irene Thomas. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970131] | | | Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970202] | | | With actor Gene Wilder. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970202] | | | Unknown: Gene Wilder. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970207] | | | With comic actor Gene Wilder. Repeated from Sunday 12.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970207] | | | Unknown: Gene Wilder. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970209] | | | With author Terry Pratchett. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970209] | | | Unknown: Terry Pratchett. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970214] | | | Repeated from Sunday |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970216] | | | With writer and journalist Mary Benson. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970216] | | | Unknown: Mary Benson. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970221] | | | Repeated from Saturday |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970223] | | | Chef Nico Ladenis talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970223] | | | Talks: Nico Ladenis Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970228] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970302] | | | With scientist Susan Greenfield. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970302] | | | Unknown: Susan Greenfield. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970307] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970314] | | | Explorer and travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon talks to Sue Lawley. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970314] | | | Talks: Redmond O'Hanlon |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970316] | | | With interior designer Nina Campbell. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970316] | | | Designer: Nina Campbell. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970321] | | | Interior designer Nina Campbell talks to Sue Lawley. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970321] | | | Talks: Nina Campbell |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970323] | | | With pop artist Peter Blake. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Good Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970323] | | | Artist: Peter Blake. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970328] | | | With pop artist Peter Blake. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970328] | | | Artist: Peter Blake. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970330] | | | With agony aunt Virginia Ironside. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970330] | | | Unknown: Virginia Ironside. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970404] | | | With agony aunt Virginia Ironside. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970404] | | | Unknown: Virginia Ironside. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970406] | | | With Prof Colin Blakemore. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970406] | | | Unknown: Prof Colin Blakemore. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970413] | | | With guest Kyra Vayne. Producer Olivia Seligman Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970413] | | | Unknown: Kyra Vayne. Producer: Olivia Seligman |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970420] | | | The castaway this week is actor Saeed Jaffrey whose film work includes My Beautiful Laundrette, Gandhi and A Passage to India. Producer Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970420] | | | Unknown: Saeed Jaffrey Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970427] | | | With comedy writer Andy Hamilton. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970427] | | | Unknown: Andy Hamilton. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970502] | | | With comedy writer Andy Hamilton. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970502] | | | Unknown: Andy Hamilton. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970504] | | | With astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees. Producer Angie Nehnng. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970504] | | | Unknown: Sir Martin Rees. Producer: Angie Nehnng. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970509] | | | With astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970509] | | | Unknown: Sir Martin Rees. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970511] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the sculptor David Wynne. Producer Angle Nehnng. Repeated Friday9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970511] | | | Unknown: David Wynne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970516] | | | With sculptor David Wynne. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970516] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970518] | | | With comedian Harry Enfield. Producer Angie Nehring. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970518] | | | Unknown: Harry Enfield. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970523] | | | The comedian Harry Enfield is this week's castaway. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970523] | | | Unknown: Harry Enfield |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970525] | | | With actress Sian Phillips. Producer Laura Parfitt. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970525] | | | Unknown: Sian Phillips. Producer: Laura Parfitt. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970530] | | | With actress Sian Phillips. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970530] | | | Unknown: Sian Phillips. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970601] | | | With pianist Joanna MacGregor. Producer Laura Parfitt. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970601] | | | Pianist: Joanna MacGregor. Producer: Laura Parfitt. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970606] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970608] | | | With poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Producer Laura Parfitt Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970608] | | | Unknown: Benjamin Zephaniah. Producer: Laura Parfitt |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970613] | | | With poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970613] | | | Unknown: Benjamin Zephaniah. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970615] | | | With children's foundation founder Christina Noble. Producer Laura Parfitt. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970615] | | | Unknown: Christina Noble. Producer: Laura Parfitt. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970620] | | | With Christina Noble. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970620] | | | Unknown: Christina Noble. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970627] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970704] | | | With Bruce Forsyth. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970704] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970711] | | | Another chance to hear Nico Ladenis choose records to take to the isle. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970711] | | | Unknown: Nico Ladenis Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970718] | | | Another chance to hear Redmond O'Hanlon choose eight favourite discs. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970718] | | | Unknown: Redmond O'Hanlon Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970725] | | | Susan Greenfield chooses eight discs. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970725] | | | Unknown: Susan Greenfield Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970801] | | | Another chance to hear Gene Wilder choose eight favourite records. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970801] | | | Unknown: Gene Wilder Producer: Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970808] | | | With castaway Dr Robert Winston. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970808] | | | Unknown: Dr Robert Winston. Producer: Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970815] | | | Saeed Jaffrey chooses eight records. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970815] | | | Unknown: Saeed Jaffrey Producer: Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970822] | | | Another chance to hear Virginia Ironside choose eight favourite records. Producer Angie Nehring Repeat |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970822] | | | Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970824] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is writer lain Banks. Repeated Friday 9.05am Producer Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970824] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970829] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is writer lain Banks. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970831] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is singer Cleo Laine. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970831] | | | Singer: Cleo Laine. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970905] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is singer Cleo Laine. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970905] | | | Singer: Cleo Laine. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970907] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. Repeated Friday 9.05am Producer Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970907] | | | Unknown: Sir Frank Kermode. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970912] | | | With literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970912] | | | Unknown: Sir Frank Kermode. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970914] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the editor of Index on Censorship, Ursula Owen. She was one of the founders of Virago Press, but will that influence her choice of music? Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970914] | | | Unknown: Ursula Owen. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970919] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Ursula Owen. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970919] | | | Unknown: Ursula Owen. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970921] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is film director and writer Mike Leigh. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970921] | | | Unknown: Mike Leigh. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970926] | | | With film director Mike Leigh. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970926] | | | Director: Mike Leigh. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970928] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is racing commentator and journalist Peter O'Sullevan. Repeated Friday 9.05am Producer Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19970928] | | | Unknown: Peter O'Sullevan. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971003] | | | With castaway Peter O'Sullevan. Repeated from Sunday 12.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971003] | | | Unknown: Peter O'Sullevan. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971005] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is musician and television presenter Jools Holland. Repeated Friday 9.05am Producer Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971005] | | | Presenter: Jools Holland. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971010] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is musician and television presenter Jools Holland. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971010] | | | Presenter: Jools Holland. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971012] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist RoseTremain. Producer Angie Nehring. Rptd Friday 9.05am See also 12.30am tonight |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971012] | | | Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971017] | | | Sue Lawiey's castaway is novelist RoseTremain. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971019] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is composer Richard Rodney Bennett. Producer Angie Nehring , Repeated Friday9.05arr |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971019] | | | Unknown: Richard Rodney Bennett. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971024] | | | Featuring Richard Rodney Bennett. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971024] | | | Unknown: Richard Rodney Bennett. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971026] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is nature writer Richard Mabey. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971026] | | | Unknown: Richard Mabey. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971031] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is nature writer Richard Mabey. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971031] | | | Unknown: Richard Mabey. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971102] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is broadcaster and popular historian John Julius Norwich. See picture and caption on page 147. Producer Angie Nehring. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971102] | | | Unknown: John Julius Norwich. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971107] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is broadcaster and popular historian John Julius Norwich. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971107] | | | Unknown: John Julius Norwich. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971109] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is director of The English Patient Anthony Minghella. See picture and caption on page 139. Producer Angie Nehring. Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971109] | | | Unknown: Anthony Minghella. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971114] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is film director Anthony Minghella. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971114] | | | Director: Anthony Minghella. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971116] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is QC Helena Kennedy. Producer Angle Nehring. Repeated Fnday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971116] | | | Unknown: Helena Kennedy. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971121] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is QC Helena Kennedy. Repeated from Sunday 12.15pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971121] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971123] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is theatre Producer Thelma Holt. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971123] | | | Producer: Thelma Holt. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971128] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is theatre producer Thelma Holt. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971128] | | | Producer: Thelma Holt. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971130] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is television Presenter Loyd Grossman. Producer Angie Nehring. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971130] | | | Presenter: Loyd Grossman. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971205] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is television presenter Loyd Grossman. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971205] | | | Presenter: Loyd Grossman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971207] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is artist Paula Rego. Producer Angie Nehhng Repeated Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971207] | | | Artist: Paula Rego. Producer: Angie Nehhng |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971212] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is artist Paula Rego. She traces her life from her Catholic childhood in Portugal to art school at the Slade in the 1950s, and chooses eight records to keep her company on the mythical island. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971212] | | | Artist: Paula Rego. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971214] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Chris Haskins. Producer Angle Nehnng. Rptd Friday 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971214] | | | Unknown: Chris Haskins. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971219] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the chairman of Northern Foods, Chris Haskins. Repeated from Sunday 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971219] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971221] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Sir Harry Secombe. Repeated Boxing Day 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971221] | | | Unknown: Harry Secombe. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971226] | | | Repeated from Sunday 21 December 12.25pm |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971228] | | | Sue Lawley's guest is Glenda Jackson. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated Friday 2 January 9.05am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19971228] | | | Unknown: Glenda Jackson. Producer: Angie Nehring |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981204] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Eileen Atkins. Repeated from Sunday 11.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981204] | | | Unknown: Eileen Atkins. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981206] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the military historian John Keegan. See Friday's radio choice on page 135. Producer Angie Nehring. Rptd Friday 9am A double CD collection Desert Island Discs - the Castaway's Choice is available now |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981206] | | | Unknown: John Keegan. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981211] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the military historian John Keegan. Repeated from Sunday 11.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981211] | | | Unknown: John Keegan. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981213] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist and former professional jockey Dick Francis. See Friday's radio choices on page 127. Producer Angie Nehring. Rptd Friday 9am A double CD collection Desert Island Discs - the Castaway's Choice is available now |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981213] | | | Unknown: Dick Francis. Producer: Angie Nehring. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981218] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is the novelist Dick Francis. Repeated from Sunday 11.15am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981218] | | | Unknown: Dick Francis. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981220] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian and television host Bob Monkhouse. Producer Angie Nehring Repeated New Year's Day 9am A double CD collection Desert Island Discs - the Castaway's Choice is available now |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981220] | | | Unknown: Bob Monkhouse. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981227] | | | Sue Lawley's castaway is Sir David Attenborough. Repeated from Christmas Day 10am |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19981227] | | | Unknown: Sir David Attenborough. |
| Geoffrey Palmer | 20050227 | 20050304 | Sue Lawley invites the actor Geoffrey Palmer to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the actor Geoffrey Palmer to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the actor Geoffrey Palmer to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| George Fenton | 20030511 | 20030516 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the composer George Fenton, whose work includes music for Groundhog Day, Shadowlands, Cry Freedom, The Company of Wolves and The Fisher King. Born George Howe in South London in 1950, he taught himself to play the guitar at the age of eight and by the age of 14 was playing the organ - "dreadfully"! He wanted to be an actor, and got an early break in Alan Bennett's play Forty Years On. As time went on, however, he found directors were always asking him to play an instrument, so he switched to music as his main focus. He got his first job as composer and musical director for a production of Twelfth Night at the RSC in Stratford in 1974. Eight years later, and still almost entirely self-taught, he was nominated for an Oscar for his score for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. It was only his fourth attempt at film music. Since 1982 he has been nominated for four more Oscars (for Cry Freedom, The Fisher King and Dangerous Liaisons) and three Golden Globes; he's won three BAFTAs, two Ivor Novello Awards and an EMMY and written music for more than 100 television productions including Bergerac, The Jewel in the Crown, Talking Heads and The Blue Planet. In addition he cornered the market in jingles for daily news bulletins across the BBC. George Fenton is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London, and regularly appears on television arts shows and documentaries as an authority on music. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: On Going to Sleep from Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss
Book: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Luxury: A piano or, failing that, for comfort a tin of condensed milk & tin opener Sue Lawley's castaway is composer George Fenton Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| George Mcgavin, Entomologist And Broadcaster | 20210207 | 20210212 (R4) | George McGavin is an entomologist, explorer and broadcaster, who has spread the word about the importance of insects to audiences in their millions. Born in Glasgow, he grew up in Edinburgh where he studied zoology at university. Following a PhD in entomology, he went on to teach and research at the University of Oxford. He gave up his post as the assistant curator of the university’s Museum of Natural History after 25 years to follow his dream of becoming a television presenter. He has presented documentaries from far-flung locations including Borneo, Guyana and New Guinea. He has made it his life’s work to uncover the mysteries of the largely uncatalogued world of invertebrates which he says makes up close to 80% of life on earth. In 2018 he was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer and the following year he turned the camera on himself to present a very personal programme about his diagnosis and treatment. DISC ONE: Love Reign O’er Me by The Who
DISC TWO: The Dark Island by The Pipes and Drums of The Black Watch
DISC THREE: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85, composed by Edward Elgar, performed by Jacqueline du Pré and London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
DISC FOUR: Night Lament by Kate Rusby
DISC FIVE: To Begin at the Beginning read by Richard Burton, from Under Milk Wood
DISC SIX: Keep Talking by Pink Floyd
DISC SEVEN: Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata by Maria Callas and Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Tullio Serafin
DISC EIGHT: The Bog by Einojuhani Rautavaara BOOK CHOICE: A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
LUXURY ITEM: Hot sauce
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85, performed by Jacqueline du Pré and London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley George McGavin, entomologist, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Geraldine James | 20040511 | 20040611 | Sue Lawley talks to the actress Geraldine James. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun May 30th, 11.15am] |
| Geraldine James | 20040530 | 20040604 | Sue Lawley talks to the actress Geraldine James. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley talks to the actress Geraldine James. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Gillian Clarke | 20131215 | 20131220 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Gillian Clarke. Wales's National Poet, she has received the Queen's Gold Medal for her work. She writes about everything from dinosaurs to suicide, but the potency and power of nature is a recurring motif. Although she's recognised for her significant and distinguished contribution to her homeland's literature and culture, her verse has been translated into ten languages and she regularly receives fan mail from South America, Pakistan and most countries in between. Aside from writing, her main project in life is the conservation of her own small patch of West Wales - restoring hedges, conserving bluebells and tending sheep take up her spare time. She says, ""A poem is the only work of art you can have for nothing. Read it, memorise it, copy it into your notebook and it's yours." Producer: Paula McGinley. ![]() episode-b03lknds.jpg
Kirsty Young talks to poet Gillian Clarke. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is Gillian Clarke. Kirsty Young talks to poet Gillian Clarke |
| Gillian Reynolds | 20180603 | 20180608 (R4) | Gillian Reynolds spent 42 years as the radio critic of the Daily Telegraph before she was headhunted by the Sunday Times at the age of 82. Born into a working class family in Liverpool, her mother ran a market stall and her father was a seaman, but also a gambler. Her mother was determined to ensure that Gillian had a good education, and she was the first in her family to go to a grammar school. She went on to study English at Oxford. She took up an internship in America, where she met her husband, and they returned to Liverpool when she became pregnant with the first of her three sons. She first worked as a radio critic for the Guardian in 1967. She became the first female controller of a commercial radio station when she joined Radio City, Liverpool, in 1974. She moved to London in 1975 when she left her troubled marriage, and secured the job of radio critic for the Telegraph, as well as working as a journalist in television and radio, at one point even co-presenting the Today programme. She chaired the Sony Radio Awards for four years, the only woman to have done so, and the Radio Academy Festival for a decade. She lives alone, but with around two dozen radios, in Notting Hill. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Gillian Reynolds, radio critic, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Gladys Cooper | 19671223 | | |
| Gloria Steinem | 20160320 | 20160325 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews feminist, writer and activist Gloria Steinem. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, feminist and activist, Gloria Steinem. At the forefront of the second wave of feminism, she came to prominence after publishing an article entitled ""After Black Power, Women's Liberation"" in 1969. Two years later she co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. As an activist, she has spent much of her life travelling, giving talks and lecturing. Born in 1934 in Ohio, her father was a businessman who ran a lake-side resort in the summer and packed up his family at the first sign of frost to travel cross-country in a caravan selling antiques. Her mother had been a newspaper journalist and later suffered a nervous breakdown before Gloria was born. She became her mother's sole carer aged eleven when her parents divorced. It was only following their separation, having settled down in a house in Toledo, that she spent her first full year at school. After high school, she read politics and government and then traveled around India for two years on a fellowship. On her return, she established herself as a writer in 1960s New York and co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971. Since then, her writing has appeared in innumerable magazines, newspapers, anthologies, television commentaries, political campaigns, and film documentaries in America and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest honour, by Barack Obama. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, feminist & activist, Gloria Steinem. At the forefront of the second wave of feminism, she came to prominence after publishing an article entitled ""After Black Power, Women's Liberation"" in 1969. Two years later she co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. As an activist, she has spent much of her life travelling, giving talks and lecturing. After high school, she read politics and government and then traveled around India for two years on a fellowship. On her return, she established herself as a writer in 1960s New York and co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971. Since then, her writing has appeared in innumerable magazines, newspapers, anthologies, television commentaries, political campaigns, and film documentaries in America and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest honour, by Barack Obama. After high school, she read politics and government and then traveled around India for two years on a fellowship. On her return, she established herself as a writer in 1960s New York and co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971. Since then, her writing has appeared in innumerable magazines, newspapers, anthologies, television commentaries, political campaigns, and film documentaries in America and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest honour, by Barack Obama. |
| Gok Wan | 20100207 | 20100212 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the stylist Gok Wan. Dispensing fashion advice and hugs in equal measure, he aims, he says, to 'make women feel like women, not like turkeys'. Yet although he made his name as a stylist, his special talent isn't for fashion, but for gaining people's trust. He understands only too well the emotional journey he is asking women to make; the first person he had to transform was himself, and that, he says, is very much work in progress. Yet although he made his name as a stylist, his special talent isn't for fashion, but for gaining people's trust. He understands only too well the emotional journey he is asking women to make; the first person he had to transform was himself, and that, he says, is very much work in progress. ![]()
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| Gok Wan | 20100212 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the stylist Gok Wan. |
| Goldie Hawn | 20120923 | 20120928 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Hollywood's prototype dizzy blond, Goldie Hawn. Like most things in Tinseltown the image is somewhat at odds with the reality. Goldie is an Academy Award winner and producer who's been on the A list for 40-odd years, starring alongside Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau and Woody Allen. She's now transmuted from fantasy pin-up to best selling author - she writes parenting manuals and spearheads a childhood learning initiative. She tells Kirsty about her journey from dancing in sleazy go-go bars to bagging an Oscar, how she coped with the difficulties her early success brought her and how she met her husband of 29 years, Kurt Russell. Film star Goldie Hawn is interviewed by Kirsty Young at the start of a new series. She chooses the eight records she would take to a desert island. |
| Graham Norton | 20040502 | 20040507 | Sue Lawley talks to the TV presenter Graham Norton. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley talks to the television presenter Graham Norton. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Grayson Perry | 20070218 | 20070223
20070223 (R4) | potter Grayson Perry Kirsty Young invites potter Grayson Perry to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the artist Grayson Perry. For more than 20 years his work was broadly unknown outside the narrow confines of the art world. But in 2003 he became a household name after a collection of his exquisitely ornate pots won him art's most prestigious award, the Turner Prize. He's described as 'the hottest potter in the world' but newspaper headlines describing his success focused at least as much on his clothes as his art - when he collected the prize he wore a lilac party dress with a bow in his hair. He started dressing in his sister's clothes when he was a child - initially as part of his imaginative games and then for an erotic thrill. In part, women's clothes represented the tender emotions he was too scared to show in his repressive and sometimes frightening family home. Now, they're a way of controlling how people see him, what kind of attention he attracts and, if nothing else, they're a unique selling point. He acknowledges the debt he owes to his profession; only the arts would tolerate, he says, a transvestite potter from Essex. Favourite track: Prophecies by Philip Glass
Book: An art book on Gothic and Renaissance altar pieces
Luxury: Loads of really good pens and paper Kirsty Young's castaway is potter Grayson Perry. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Followed by News. |
| Greg Dyke | 20070520 | 20070525 | Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke former BBC Director General Greg Dyke Kirsty Young talks to former BBC Director General Greg Dyke, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Gurinder Chadha | 20151122 | 20151127 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to film-maker, writer and producer Gurinder Chadha. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is filmmaker Gurinder Chadha. Writer, director and producer behind the films Bend it like Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach and Bride and Prejudice, she began her career as a BBC news reporter. She was born in Kenya to Sikh parents and grew up in Southall in West London. Her political awakening came in her teens in the 1970s against the backdrop of the National Front and race riots in the capital. The bands she listened to, including the Clash, the Jam and the Specials, were fixtures at the Rock Against Racism concerts which galvanised her desire to make a difference. Bend it Like Beckham, which launched the career of Keira Knightly, is now a hit musical on the West End stage. Her next film, Viceroy's House, tackles the Partition of India in 1947. She was awarded an OBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the British Film Industry. Producer: Paula McGinley. Kirsty Young's castaway is filmmaker Gurinder Chadha. Kirsty Young talks to film-maker, writer and producer Gurinder Chadha.
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| Guy Garvey | 20140803 | 20140808 |  Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert island Discs. Front man of the group ""Elbow"" his voice and lyrics have helped the band win pretty much every music prize going... headlining Glastonbury too, and playing at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. Yet his image is that of an everyday, low key, unassuming bloke... except that he isn't, he's penning and performing songs filled with intimacy, optimism and lyricism, that strike a chord with millions of fans. For a long while his devotees were well versed in the art of delayed gratification - Elbow's debut album was released 11 years after the band members first made music together. He writes his songs in his journal and has been keeping a diary since he was 14. Maybe it was the peace and calm of the blank page that first appealed - one of 7 kids he says he was brought up ""in a house full of women that were singing, shouting, arguing, fighting over the bathroom. I'm ruined by these women, spoilt rotten"". Kirsty Young talks to Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow. |
| Guy Singh-watson | 20180701 | 20180706 (R4) | Guy Singh-Watson is an organic farmer and founder of Riverford, a major British supplier of organic vegetables through a box delivery scheme. Born in 1960 and the youngest of five children, his parents became tenant farmers in Devon in 1951. He describes himself as "a proper little farm boy", and spent his free time outside, clambering up trees, catching rabbits, rearing his own pig and helping on the farm. Severely dyslexic, he disliked school, but thanks to an aptitude for performing well in exams, he won a place at Oxford University to read Agricultural and Forestry Science, graduating with a First. He briefly joined the family farm, but left to become a management consultant in London and then New York, returning to the farm in 1986. He started cultivating vegetables on three acres of land with a wheelbarrow and a borrowed tractor, and found his niche, moving from three to 18 to 50 acres quite rapidly. Initially, Guy sold to supermarkets, but became convinced that there must be a better way of getting his produce to customers, and set up a veg box scheme in 1993. His company now delivers to around 50,000 homes a week and had a turnover of £56.7 million in 2017.
Guy has four grown-up children from his first marriage and an eight-year-old step-daughter from his second marriage to Geetie Singh. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Guy Singh-Watson, farmer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. , farmer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Guy Singh-Watson, farmer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Gyles Brandreth | 20110109 | 20110114 | Former MP and writer Gyles Brandreth joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is Gyles Brandreth. A former Conservative MP, he is also a some-time actor, broadcaster and prolific writer who has authored biographies, diaries, stage plays and mysteries. Pursuing a political career has been, he says, the over-riding ambition of his life. However the happiest moment came not from politics, but when he was performing in a West End show that he had written himself. These days, his ambitions are to return to the stage and the role he wants to take on is Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "I have no complaints" he says; "my life has been one long series of tomato and marmite sandwiches. I've always had what I wanted." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Gyorgy Pauk | 20100530 | 20100604 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the violinist Gyorgy Pauk. In a career spanning fifty years, he has played with all the best orchestras and continues to teach masterclasses around the world. He grew up in Hungary and, after both his parents were taken to labour camps, he was brought up by his grandmother. His parents died during the war and it was, says Gyorgy, a miracle that he and his grandmother survived in the Budapest ghetto. For years afterwards, he says, he would carry food with him because he was so scarred by the hunger he'd felt. His musical talent was his passport to the West and, when he was 22 years old, he fled first to France, then to Holland and finally to Britain where he has lived for nearly fifty years. Of his early years, he says: There were times when you were punished if you were listening to the radio. That's when it started to get to me - realising that I was not free. Music is international, it has to be worldwide." Producer: Leanne Buckle."". He grew up in Hungary and, after both his parents were taken to labour camps, he was brought up by his grandmother. His parents died during the war and it was, says Gyorgy, a miracle that he and his grandmother survived in the Budapest ghetto. For years afterwards, he says, he would carry food with him because he was so scarred by the hunger he'd felt. His musical talent was his passport to the West and, when he was 22 years old, he fled first to France, then to Holland and finally to Britain where he has lived for nearly fifty years. Of his early years, he says: "There were times when you were punished if you were listening to the radio. That's when it started to get to me - realising that I was not free. Music is international, it has to be worldwide." ![]()
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| Gyorgy Pauk | 20100604 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the violinist Gyorgy Pauk. |
| Harry Rabinowitz | 20150628 | 20150703 (R4) | Kirsty's castaway this week is the conductor and composer Harry Rabinowitz. His list of credits and collaborations read like a Who's Who of 20th century music - Gracie Fields, Charles Aznavour, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matt Monro and Barbra Streisand are only a handful of the stellar names who've benefitted from his talents. He's conducted a lot of movie scores too, including Chariots of Fire and The Talented Mr Ripley; indeed the late director Anthony Minghella described him as ""the UK's best kept secret"". It wasn't an illustrious start; his first job was playing sheet music for prospective customers in a Johannesburg department store - he was fired after 6 weeks. His first go at conducting was enhanced not by an elegant baton of the finest Maplewood but a rolled up old newspaper. He's almost a hundred years old now, still plays the piano every day and only retired from the concert platform six years ago at the age of 94. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
His list of credits and collaborations read like a Who's Who of 20th century music - Gracie Fields, Charles Aznavour, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Matt Monro & Barbra Streisand are only a handful of the stellar names who've benefitted from his talents. He's conducted a lot of movie scores too, including Chariots of Fire and The Talented Mr Ripley; indeed the late director Anthony Minghella described him as ""the UK's best kept secret"". It wasn't an illustrious start; his first job was playing sheet music for prospective customers in a Johannesburg department store - he was fired after 6 weeks. His first go at conducting was enhanced not by an elegant baton of the finest Maplewood but a rolled up old newspaper. Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Harvey Goldsmith | 20090705 | 20090710 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. From the Rolling Stones to Pavarotti, and with pretty well every other name in music in-between, he has been one of the country's top promoters for more than 40 years. His career has given him a unique insight into music history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw his first TV out of a hotel window. Always passionate about what he listened to, he acknowledges that his own instrument is the pocket calculator. Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. His career has given him a unique insight into music history; he was there, after all, when Keith Moon threw his first TV out of a hotel window. |
| Harvey Goldsmith | 20090710 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. |
| Heather Rabbatts | 20110724 | 20110729 | Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the businesswoman Heather Rabbatts. Born in Jamaica and raised in Britain, her early years were unpromising and she left school with just a few O levels. But after evening classes, she studied law and became a barrister before making her name as the youngest council chief in the country. She's at home in the toughest business environments - from Millwall Football Club to the Royal Opera House - and says: "I definitely like being in charge and I've always felt that I can gather everyone's spirits and energies to take that jump into the unknown together." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts is interviewed by Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the businesswoman Heather Rabbatts. Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts is interviewed by Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. |
| Heather Rabbatts | 20110729 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the businesswoman Heather Rabbatts. Born in Jamaica and raised in Britain, her early years were unpromising and she left school with just a few O levels. But after evening classes, she studied law and became a barrister before making her name as the youngest council chief in the country. She's at home in the toughest business environments - from Millwall Football Club to the Royal Opera House - and says: "I definitely like being in charge and I've always felt that I can gather everyone's spirits and energies to take that jump into the unknown together." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Businesswoman Heather Rabbatts is interviewed by Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. |
| Heidi Thomas, Screenwriter | 20191215 | 20191220 (R4) | Heidi Thomas is a screenwriter and playwright best known for Call the Midwife. The BBC TV series, which began in 2012, was originally a six part adaptation of a trilogy of memoirs by Jennifer Worth, recalling her experiences as a midwife in the East End of London. It was an immediate hit, with 10 million viewers a week, becoming one of BBC One’s most popular dramas and a fixture in the Christmas schedules. Born in 1962, Heidi Thomas grew up as the eldest of three children in the leafy suburbs of Liverpool. Her father ran a drain cleaning business while her mother looked after the children, including Heidi’s youngest brother David, who was born with Down’s Syndrome. Heidi studied English at Liverpool University, supporting herself by selling ladies’ underwear at a department store. During a bout of viral hepatitis, which left her unable to apply for jobs when she graduated, she entered a competition for new plays and won a prize for her debut, All Flesh is Grass. During the production,of her next play, Shamrocks and Crocodiles, she met the actor Stephen McGann. They went on to marry, and many years later Stephen was cast as the GP in Call the Midwife. After nearly a decade in the theatre, Heidi made the leap into television, first writing on existing series such as Soldier, Soldier and Doctor Finlay. Her other screenwriting credits include Lilies, based on her grandmother’s recollections, and adaptations of classic novels including Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. DISC ONE: You Belong to Me by The Duprees
DISC TWO: Penny Lane by The Beatles
DISC THREE: Gentle on my Mind by Dean Martin
DISC FOUR: Who Will Sing Me Lullabies? by Kate Rusby
DISC FIVE: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack
DISC SIX: Finishing The Hat by Josh Groban
DISC SEVEN: Agnus Dei from Requiem, op. 48, conducted by Nigel Short and performed by London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble and Tenebrae
DISC EIGHT: Both Sides, Now by Joni Mitchell BOOK CHOICE: London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
LUXURY ITEM: A hot water bottle
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Both Sides, Now by Joni Mitchell Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Heidi Thomas, screenwriter, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Helen Browning | 20150517 | 20150522 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway is the farmer, and Chief Executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning. Born and brought up on the farm in Wiltshire she runs today, she told her father she wanted to be a 'proper farmer' aged just 9. By the time she was 24 her father had passed the reins on to her and not long after, she made it entirely organic. Inspired by five of her great aunts who, after the First World War, began farming themselves, today she continues to run the family farm, her own meat business and the local pub. Awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to farming, she is chair of the Food Ethics Council, has served on the Curry Commission into the Future of Farming and Food and was appointed Chief Executive of the Soil Association in 2010. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. , farmer and CEO of the Soil Association, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Helen Browning, farmer & CEO of the Soil Association, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Helen Browning, farmer and CEO of the Soil Association, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs
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| Helen Fielding, Author | 20200705 | 20200710 (R4) | Helen Fielding, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Helen Fielding, writer and journalist, is best known for creating Bridget Jones, who first appeared in a newspaper column in the Independent in 1995, in the form of a diary detailing the single 30-something’s exploits in London as she tried to make sense of life and love. The column soon acquired a wider following, and Helen turned Bridget’s story into a best-selling book the following year. Born in 1958, Helen grew up in Yorkshire with an older sister and two younger brothers. Her father was a manager at the textile mill next door to where they lived.
She read English at Oxford where she became friends with Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. After graduating, she became a BBC trainee, travelling to Africa for Comic Relief. She later made documentaries for Thames TV before moving into print journalism. To date, Helen has written four Bridget Jones novels, three of which have been turned into feature films starring Renée Zellweger. She spent a decade in Los Angeles at the start of the new millennium and had two children with Kevin Curran, who was a scriptwriter for The Simpsons. She now lives in London. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale |
| Helen Mccrory, Actress | 20200628 | 20200703 (R4) | Helen McCrory, actress, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Helen McCrory shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would want to take with her if cast away to a desert island. Helen McCrory OBE is one of the most versatile and critically acclaimed actresses working today. On screen she has played Anna Karenina, Cherie Blair (twice), Harry Potter's Narcissa Malfoy and the Peaky Blinders matriarch Aunt Polly. Her theatre roles range from Yelena in Uncle Vanya to Euripides' Medea. A diplomat's daughter, she spent her early childhood in Africa before continuing her education in the UK. After a bruising and unsuccessful audition at the Drama Centre in London - she was instructed to find out more about life before learning to act - she travelled to Italy where she discovered art and love and came back to try again. This time she passed the audition. In 1993 she made her mark in Richard Eyre's production of Trelawny of the Wells at the National Theatre and went on to perform leading roles on some of London's most prestigious stages, winning two Olivier Award nominations. She was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2017. She met her husband, fellow actor Damian Lewis, when they both starred in a play called Five Gold Rings. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic Helen and Damian, together with the comedian Matt Lucas, co-founded the Feed NHS campaign which raises money to provide hot meals to frontline NHS workers. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Helen Oxenbury | 20201129 | 20201204 (R4) | Helen Oxenbury is an illustrator of children’s books whose work has featured in many very popular titles for younger readers including the award-winning We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen. Helen has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Book Trust in 2018. She attended the Ipswich School of Art and later the Central School of Art in London where she met fellow illustrator and her future husband, John Burningham. After the birth of her children she began illustrating children’s books, working at the kitchen table long after they’d gone to bed. Her work for Ivor Cutler’s Meal One, published in 1971, was praised by Spare Rib magazine for its portrayal of a single mother and her relationship with her young son. Helen came up with the idea of her baby board books in the late 1970s after the birth of her third child who suffered with eczema. Discovering that her daughter could be distracted from scratching by looking at baby catalogues, Helen created a series of board books placing babies and toddlers at their heart. Such a concept was unheard of at the time. From the late 1980s, Helen ensured that the babies and children featured in her books came from different ethnic backgrounds and her work in So Much by Trish Cooke has become a children’s classic. In We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, published in 1989, Helen’s pictures celebrated the joy of adventure and the bond between siblings. DISC ONE: America by Marilyn Cooper, Chita Rivera and Shark Girls
DISC TWO: Mir Ist So Wunderbar by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Mark Elder, performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra. Tenor: Andrew Kennedy, Soprano: Lisa Milne, Soprano: Anja Kampe, Bass: Brindley Sherratt
DISC THREE: Tubby The Tuba by Danny Kaye
DISC FOUR: Lullaby of Birdland by Erroll Garner
DISC FIVE: Episode 1of Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol. II by Ivor Cutler
DISC SIX: Schubert ’s Impromptu No. 3 in G flat D899 by Alfred Brendel, (piano)
conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
DISC SEVEN: Singin’ in the Rain by Gene Kelly
DISC EIGHT: Les Pecheurs de Perles, Act 1: Romance: Mi par d'udir ancora (Je crois entendre encore) by Beniamino Gigli, conducted by Eugene Goossens BOOK CHOICE: The Empire Trilogy by JG Farrell
LUXURY ITEM: A bed with an unlimited supply of white linen sheets
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Les Pecheurs de Perles, Act 1: Romance: Mi par d'udir ancora (Je crois entendre encore) by Beniamino Gigli, conducted by Eugene Goossens Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley Helen Oxenbury, illustrator, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Hella Pick, Journalist | 20181116 | 20181230 (R4) | As one of the Guardian’s first female foreign correspondents, Hella Pick reported on events that shaped the world in the second half of the 20th century, from Martin Luther King's civil rights activism to Watergate, the Gdansk shipyard strikes to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Born in Vienna in 1929, she was raised by her mother who, in March 1939, put her on a Kindertransport train to Britain to escape the Nazis. Her mother was able to follow her to England a few months later and Hella spent her formative years in the Lake District. After reading Politics at London School of Economics, she worked as commercial editor of a London-based weekly publication called West Africa. After she left, she offered her services to The Guardian – and spent the next 35 years or so with the paper. While UN correspondent, she worked alongside Alistair Cooke in New York and subsequently held posts as European Integration correspondent, Washington correspondent, Eastern Europe correspondent, and diplomatic editor before retiring in the mid-1990s. Since leaving The Guardian, she has nurtured a new career as a writer, publishing a biography of Simon Wiesenthal and a book about Austria’s post-war history. BOOK: Scorn by Matthew Parris
LUXURY: Recliner armchair
FAVOURITE TRACK: Mozart's Marriage of Figaro Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Hella Pick, veteran journalist, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. A castaway guest shares the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Henry Blofeld | 20031130 | 20031207
20031205 (R4) | Sue Lawley's castaway is cricket commentator Henry Blofeld This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld. Blofeld's become known as much for his musings on pigeons, planes, double decker buses, tea ladies, cakes and his catchphrase 'my dear old thing' as he is for his cricket commentary. As a teenager he showed great promise as a cricketer and was even thought good enough to play for England until his dreams were dashed after a serious accident when his bike hit a bus. He dropped out of Cambridge and toyed with the idea of a career in merchant banking before realising his true vocation. Advised in his early years to 'paint a picture' for his listeners, 'Blowers' has since gone on to become a much-loved stalwart of the Test Match Special team. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Cricket commentary by Brian Johnston, Jonathan Agnew, John Arlott
Book: A Pelican at Blandings by P G Wodehouse
Luxury: Personal photo album Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Henry Blofeld | 20040718 | 20040723 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the veteran cricket commentator Henry Blofeld. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Henry Marsh | 20180923 | 20180928 (R4) | Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon, who pioneered a technique of operating on the brain while the patient is under local anaesthetic. The procedure is now standard practice. He is also an acclaimed writer. He was born in 1950 in Oxford, where his father was an academic. His mother came to England as a political refugee from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Henry did not initially pursue a career in medicine: after dropping out of university, he found work as a hospital porter, and only then decided to train as a doctor. He was appointed a consultant at St George’s Hospital, London, in 1987. He has spent his career in the NHS, and has also frequently worked abroad, in Ukraine, Nepal, Albania and elsewhere. He retired in 2015, but continues to teach one day a week and to work overseas to help less experienced surgeons. In 2014, he published a memoir, Do No Harm, which was widely praised for its honesty about mistakes in the operating theatre. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor Kirsty Young interviews Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon and writer. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor Guests choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Herbert Kretzmer | 20031012 | 20031017 (R4) | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the journalist and songwriter Herbert Kretzmer. Born in South Africa in 1925, he came to Europe after World War II. For a while he lived in Paris, playing piano in a bar. He rubbed shoulders with Jean Paul Sartre and became friends with one of France's greatest singer-songwriters Charles Aznavour. The two formed a musical partnership and Kretzmer re-worked many of his songs into English - including the hits Yesterday, When I Was Young and She, which was more recently recorded by Elvis Costello for the film Notting Hill. His day job was as a journalist and Kretzmer wrote celebrity profiles for the Daily Express. He says his most memorable interviewees were "writers and fighters", including George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, Truman Capote and Arthur Miller. But it wasn't until he was nearly sixty that he had his greatest success. The director Cameron Mackintosh was working on Les Miserables but did not have a 'book' - that is, a set of songs that he could produce. He remembered a chance meeting he'd had with Kretzmer, recalled the songs he'd written and his connection with France - and invited him to write the lyrics. The show has been running in London for the past 19 years and has played all over the world. Now aged 78, he continues to work. He is currently collaborating with the former ABBA musicians, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus on another musical. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Gymnopedies by Yikin Seow
Book: The Great War and Modern Memory by Prof Paul Fussell
Luxury: Zippo Lighter Sue Lawley's castaway is songwriter Herbert Kretzmer Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Heston Blumenthal | 20061029 | 20061103 | Kirsty Young invites chef Heston Blumenthal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites chef Heston Blumenthal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| High Wire Walker Philippe Petit | 20050410 | 20050415 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the high wire walker Philippe Petit. Since the age of seventeen Petit had been, in his own words, a 'wandering troubador', making a living by doing magic in the salons of PARIS. Notre Dame became the site of Petit's first illegal wirewalk, on 6th June 1971. On 7th August 1974 Philippe Petit committed 'the artistic crime of the century' when he put a rope between the towers of the World Trade Centre in NEW YORK and spent nearly an hour walking back and forth across it, pausing to kneel and lie down on the wire. He brought much of Manhattan, a quarter of a mile below him, to a standstill, and succeeded in pushing Richard Nixon's resignation off the front pages of the newspapers the following day. Since walking between the twin towers Petit has done wire-walks all over the world including Tokyo and Jerusalem. He has, uniquely, devised plays to be performed on the high wire and has also become artist in residence at the cathedral of St John the Divine in NEW YORK, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. Gabriel's Oboe Performer Yo-Yo Ma, Roma infonietta Orchestra Composer Ennio Morricone Publisher Sony BMG CD Title Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone Track 1 Label Sony Classical Rec No: SK 93456 2. 1st Movement of Sonatine for Violin and Piano Performer Leon Duo Composer Dvorak Publisher Cassiopee CD Title Dvorak 4 pieces Romantique. Romance , Sonatine pour Violin et Piano Leon Label Cassiopee Rec No: 969 252 3. Gymnopedie No 1 Performer Evelyne Crochet Composer Eric Satie Publisher Philips CD Title Evelyne Crochet plays Eric Satie Track 3 Label Philips Rec No :PHS 900-179 4. Sunset and the Mocking Bird Performer Duke Ellington Composer Ellington/Strayhorn Publisher Tempo Music Inc CD Title The Ellington Suites Label Pablo Rec No :OJCCD 446-2 5. Ne me Quitte Pas Performer Jacques Brel Composer J Brel Publisher Barclay CD Title Ne me Quitte Pas Label Barclay Rec No: 980817-6 6. B'Amud Onon Psalm 99 v. 7-9 Performer Estrongo Nachama, Harry Foss (Organ) Composer Boas Bischofswerder CD Title Chasanut - Gesange aus der Synagoge Track 7 Label P+O-Pallas Rec No: CD 66.21184 7. Palabras para Julia Performer Paco Ibanez Francois Rabbath on Cello Composer Jose Agustin Goytisolo Publisher A Flor de tiempo CD Title Paco Ibanez Track 8 Label Universal , A flor de Tiempo Rec No: 018979-2 8. Ma Mere Baidja Performer Francois Rabbath (Cello) Michel Delaport (Perc) Georges Avanitas (Piano/organ) Composer Francois Rabbath Publisher EMEN CD Title Francois Rabbath - 70 Label Emen Rec No: 290142 Record: Dvorak Sonatine for Violin and Piano Book: Ashley's Book of Knots concealing a hidden book of short stories Luxury: His Mysterious Object (An object found by his father that as yet no- one can identify). Sue Lawley invites high wire walker, Philippe Petit, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites high wire walker, Philippe Petit, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Hilary Devey | 20121028 | 20121102 | The very incarnation of entrepreneurial spirit, Hilary Devey built a haulage network business from scratch, which now employs nearly eight thousand people and has an annual turnover of £100 million. She has a successful media career and is one of the current incumbents of the TV programme Dragons Den. The real drama in her life has happened off screen. The skeleton in her parents' closet reappeared in her own life. She's been married and divorced three times, her only child has battled drug addiction and a severe stroke nearly killed her in 2009. Despite this, she remains ambitious and energetic in the business world and says that there's no such thing as a glass ceiling. Producer: Alison Hughes. , businesswoman and TV star, is interviewed by Kirsty Young Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Hilary Mcgrady, Director General Of The National Trust | 20201101 | 20201106 (R4) | Hilary McGrady is Director General of the National Trust. She was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1966, where her father was a builder while her mother looked after Hilary and her two older siblings. She spent her childhood roaming the fields near her home, 20 miles outside Belfast. She went to art college after school where she met her husband, Frank. Their relationship initially caused difficulty for her family who were staunch Protestants and Unionists, while Frank’s came from a Catholic, Republican background. After finishing her degree in Graphic Design, Hilary worked as a designer before moving into marketing and then into the charity sector for an organisation called Arts & Business. After working on Belfast’s ultimately unsuccessful bid to become European Capital of Culture she joined the National Trust in 2006 as regional director for Northern Ireland. She moved around the organisation, taking on ever bigger roles with every move, becoming Chief Operating Officer in 2014. She succeeded Dame Helen Ghosh as Director General in March 2018. Her major priority for the National Trust over the next decade is to tackle climate change and biodiversity, and she set out a ten-year plan in January 2020 to coincide with the Trust’s 125th anniversary. Hilary lives in County Antrim with her husband. They have three grown-up children, a dog and 16 ducks. She lists her interests as the arts, gardening and hill walking. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Hilary McGrady, National Trust DG, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. She was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1966, where her father was a builder while her mother looked after Hilary and her two older siblings. She spent her childhood roaming the fields near her home, 20 miles outside Belfast. She went to art college after school where she met her husband, Frank. Their relationship initially caused difficulty for her family who were staunch Protestants and unionists, while Frank’s came from a Catholic, nationalist area. DISC ONE: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, performed by Tasmin Little (violin) and BBC Symphony Orchestra
DISC TWO: How Great Thou Art by Chris Rice
DISC THREE: Blue Monday by New Order
DISC FOUR: She Moved Through The Fair by Cara Dillon
DISC FIVE: One by U2
DISC SIX: Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol
DISC SEVEN: Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
DISC EIGHT: Paradise by George Ezra BOOK CHOICE: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Asiri
LUXURY ITEM: Painting set and easel
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: She Moved Through the Fair by Cara Dillon |
| Howard Jacobson | 20110206 | 20110211
20110211 (R4) | Writer and Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Writer Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson. After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young. After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: ""My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything." Record: You're a Sweetheart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: A never ending supply of pressed shirts and trousers 
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| Howard Jacobson | 20110211 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson. After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be on the outside of everything." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Writer and Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson joins Kirsty Young. |
| Hugh Bonneville | 20160228 | 20160304 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to actor Hugh Bonneville. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is Hugh Bonneville. Known around the world for his portrayal of Lord Grantham in ITV's hugely popular Downton Abbey, he made British audiences laugh with his portrayal of the hapless Ian Fletcher in the BBC comedies Twenty Twelve and W1A and charmed audiences of all ages as Mr Brown in the animated film, Paddington Bear. His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, performing and even creating tickets for his very own dramatic productions - performed for his family at home. He was born in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with two older siblings. At junior school he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in Theology at Cambridge. He chose an acting career over law, and following a brief time at drama school, his first professional role was ""bashing a cymbal"" in A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's Regent's Park theatre in 1986. He joined the National the following year and achieved his ambition of being a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991. His television debut was as a conman in the ITV drama Chancer and his first appearance on the big screen was in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh. He appeared opposite George Clooney in the 2014 film The Monuments Men and was the voice of Father Christmas in the BBC's adaptation of the Julia Donaldson picture book Stick Man. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, performing and even creating tickets for his very own dramatic productions - performed for his family at home. He was born in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with two older siblings. At 13 he went to boarding school where he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in Theology at Cambridge. 
His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, performing & even creating tickets for his very own dramatic productions - performed for his family at home. He was born in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with two older siblings. At junior school he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in Theology at Cambridge. His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, performing & even creating tickets for his very own dramatic productions - performed for his family at home. He was born in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with two older siblings. At 13 he went to boarding school where he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in Theology at Cambridge. His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, performing and even creating tickets for his very own dramatic productions - performed for his family at home. He was born in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with two older siblings. At 13 he went to boarding school where he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in Theology at Cambridge. |
| Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall | 20090726 | 20090731 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Famous for making pât退 out of placenta and dining on such delicacies as squirrel and rook in his TV programmes, he has made a name for himself as a cook on the wild side. So perhaps it is not surprising that his first ambition was not to spend his life inside a kitchen but in the great outdoors because, he says, he 'wanted to be David Attenborough'. A stint in the renowned River Caf退 in London, however, set him on his way to establishing his own waterside haven for food lovers, his River Cottage in Dorset. From there, he has followed his passion for the environment by campaigning for ethically-produced food, including championing a creature not normally given time on our small screens - the humble supermarket chicken. Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. |
| Hugh Laurie | 20130623 | 20130628 | , actor and musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, Hugh Laurie. If life were straightforward he'd be marooned on the island because of his achievements as an Olympic rower. But his early promise on the water was scuppered by a bout of glandular fever - so he's had to make do instead with life as a worldwide entertainment superstar. Very British comedy, very big budget movies, very successful syndicated TV drama - his 30 year career has taken him from A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie to a big bit of broadcasting history: his role in the U.S. show House ran for 8 series and had a global audience of 81 million. So why now does he feel the need to risk his stellar reputation by making music too? He says, ""as soon as I acknowledge to myself that something is frightening and carries the risk of public humiliation I feel like I have to do it." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Hugh Laurie, actor and musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Very British comedy, very big budget movies, very successful syndicated TV drama - his 30 year career has taken him from A Little Bit of Fry & Laurie to a big bit of broadcasting history: his role in the U.S. show House ran for 8 series and had a global audience of 81 million. So why now does he feel the need to risk his stellar reputation by making music too? |
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| Humphrey Lyttelton | 20080615 | | Another chance to hear Kirsty Young inviting the late Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter and veteran presenter of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Another chance to hear Kirsty Young inviting the late Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter and veteran presenter of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Ian Bostridge | 20081026 | 20081031 | Kirsty Young invites the singer Ian Bostridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the singer Ian Bostridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Ian Mcmillan | 20101107 | 20101112 | Poet and broadcaster Ian Mcmillan joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and broadcaster Ian Mcmillan. Thirty years ago he was working in a factory gluing together tennis ball halves. Then he got a grant, chucked in his job and devoted himself to writing and performing. These days he's known as the Bard of Barnsley and his appeal stretches from the terraces of his local football club to the balcony of the London Coliseum... he is poet in residence at both Barnsley FC and the English National Opera... He still lives in the village where he was born and he considers and analyses British culture from his very particular vantage point in south Yorkshire. He says: "You can do the universal in the local, I always think. You can see all the changes that have happened all over the world in the 20th and 21st centuries in microcosm." Producer: Leanne Buckle Record: 4' 33" - John Cage Book: The Long and The Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher Luxury: A tandem bike with wooden models of his family on the front. Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Ian Mcmillan | 20101112 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. Thirty years ago he was working in a factory gluing together tennis ball halves. Then he got a grant, chucked in his job and devoted himself to writing and performing. These days he's known as the Bard of Barnsley and his appeal stretches from the terraces of his local football club to the balcony of the London Coliseum... he is poet in residence at both Barnsley FC and the English National Opera... He still lives in the village where he was born and he considers and analyses British culture from his very particular vantage point in south Yorkshire. He says: "You can do the universal in the local, I always think. You can see all the changes that have happened all over the world in the 20th and 21st centuries in microcosm." Producer: Leanne Buckle Record: 4' 33" - John Cage Book: The Long and The Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher Luxury: A tandem bike with wooden models of his family on the front. Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Book: The Long and The Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher |
| Ian Wright, Former Footballer And Broadcaster | 20200216 | 20200221 (R4) | Ian Wright is a former professional footballer and now a football pundit on TV and radio. He began his career at Crystal Palace before moving to Arsenal where he became their highest goal scorer of all time, a record only surpassed eight years later by Thierry Henry. Born to a Jamaican couple in south-east London, Ian grew up with his mother and step-father. His biological father had left the family when Ian was under two years old. Things at home were difficult and Ian spent as much time as possible outside playing football. At his primary school a teacher, Mr Pigden, took him under his wing and Ian would later credit him with changing his life. He left his secondary school at the age of 14 to get a job. Although he took part in trials for many professional football clubs as a teenager, he was never selected. He continued to play for amateur sides. By the age of 21, he had three children to provide for, so when Crystal Palace came calling in 1985, he turned them down three times before accepting a two-week trial, followed by a three-month contract. His football career had finally begun. After impressing as a forward at Palace, he was bought by Arsenal for a record fee in 1991. He was called up to the England squad the same year and would go on to collect 33 caps. He spent his last couple of years in professional football at a number of clubs around the country and in total, he played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in England and Scotland. Since his retirement from football in 2000, he has had a career as a pundit on both TV and radio. He has eight children and has been happily married to his second wife, Nancy, since 2011. DISC ONE: The Marriage of Figaro: Duettino - Sull'aria by Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, composed by Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DISC TWO: Looking For You by Kirk Franklin
DISC THREE: River Deep Mountain High by Ike and Tina Turner
DISC FOUR: Redemption Song by Bob Marley & The Wailers
DISC FIVE: Mysteries of the World by MSFB
DISC SIX: Endlessly by Randy Crawford
DISC SEVEN: Crown by Stormzy
DISC EIGHT: Just Fine by Mary J Blige BOOK CHOICE: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
LUXURY ITEM: A seven iron golf club and golf balls
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Endlessly by Randy Crawford Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Ian Wright, former footballer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Illustrator And Satirist Ronald Searle | 20050710 | 20050715 | Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and satirist Ronald Searle to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and satirist Ronald Searle to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and satirist Ronald Searle to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Then Weather. |
| Imtiaz Dharker | 20150712 | 20150717 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet and artist, Imtiaz Dharker. Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for her work, her life seems a perfect reflection of the inter-relatedness of The Commonwealth. Born in Pakistan she was no more than a few months old when the family packed up their belongings and flew four thousand miles to start a new life - exchanging the blistering, dusty lanes of Lahore for the blustery, rain-slicked roads of Glasgow. Her father worked hard and, from scratch, built a big, successful business and a comfortable life for his children. But the immigrant fairytale came undone when his restless, well-educated, westernised daughter married in secret, running away to Bombay. Her parents disowned her and she would never see her mother again. Her work centres on themes of freedom, cultural intolerance, everyday life and gender politics. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet and artist, Imtiaz Dharker. Kirsty Young interviews the poet Imtiaz Dharker.
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| Inga Beale | 20160515 | 20160520 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd's of London. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, Inga Beale. She has been the CEO of Lloyd's of London since January 2014 and was the first woman to hold the post in the 325 years since the insurer was founded in 1688. She is the middle child of a Norwegian mother and an English father and grew up in Newbury, Berkshire. Her career in insurance began in London in the early 1980s, but she tired of the predominantly male culture of the industry and left the City in 1989 to go travelling for a year. On her return she worked for the Prudential and then for GE Solutions, the insurance arm of General Electrics, where the work took her abroad. She left GE in 2006 to turn around a failing Swiss company, before joining the Zurich Insurance Group. Her last role before joining Lloyd's as CEO in 2014 was as chief executive of Canopius, a privately held Lloyd's insurer. In 2015, she topped a power list of the world's leading 100 LGBT executives. She is openly bisexual after coming out in 2008 and has been married to her husband since 2013. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Isabella Tree, Writer And Conservationist | 20191124 | 20191129 (R4) | Isabella Tree is a conservationist and writer of the award-winning book Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm, which tells the story of rewilding a 3,500 acre farm estate in Sussex, which she oversaw with her husband Charlie. The adopted daughter of Michael Tree and Lady Anne Cavendish, Isabella grew up in Mereworth Castle in Kent, and then in Shute House, a vicarage in Dorset. Following her expulsion from two secondary schools, she attended Millfield School as a sixth former, where mutual friends introduced her to her future husband. After reading classics at the University of London, she went on to work as a journalist and travel writer for the Evening Standard and The Sunday Times. Her first book, The Bird Man, about the Victorian ornithologist John Gould, was published in 1991. She married Charles Burrell in 1993 and settled at Knepp, a dairy and arable farm in Sussex. She continued to travel, writing books about Papua New Guinea, Nepal and Mexico. In 2000 Isabella and Charlie closed the farm business at Knepp, and turned the estate into a conservation project, letting the land develop on its own, and eventually introducing free-roaming animals – cattle, pigs, deer and ponies. Two decades later, the project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife, fungi, and vegetation with extremely rare species like turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies breeding there. The soil is richer in micro-organisms which help to recapture carbon from the air and promote a functioning ecosystem where nature is given as much freedom as possible. She lives at Knepp with her husband Charlie and has two children, Ned and Nancy. DISC ONE: ‘The Whole of the Moon’ by The Waterboys
DISC TWO: ‘These Foolish Things’ by Billie Holiday
DISC THREE: ‘Life’s a Gas’ by T. Rex
DISC FOUR: ‘Where’s the Telephone Bill? by Bootsy’s Rubber Band
DISC FIVE: ‘Three Little Birds’ by Bob Marley
DISC SIX: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, played by the Brindisi String Quartet
DISC SEVEN: BBC Sound recording of Nightingales And Bombers The Night Of The Mannheim Raid
DISC EIGHT: ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ by Toploader BOOK CHOICE: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
LUXURY ITEM: Mask, snorkel and a neoprene vest
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: These Foolish Things by Billie Holiday Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Isabella Tree, conservationist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. She lives at Knepp with her Charlie and two children, Ned and Nancy. |
| Jack Dee | 20140511 | 20140516 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comedian, Jack Dee. Comedian, actor and writer, his persona is that of the laconic miserabilist - his hit sit-com was called ""Lead Balloon"" and his autobiography entitled ""Thanks For Nothing"". That is only part of the picture: even though show business was in the family - his great grandparents were in music hall - his early working life ranged all over the place. From grafting in the kitchens of The Ritz to working in an artificial leg factory - at one point he even seriously considered the priesthood. He says his caustic, ironic, sarcastic comedy comes from ""a sort of realism. You can't escape the dark stuff in life... and my way of dealing with that is to absorb it into my life so that it's no longer worrying for me." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Jack Mapanje | 20041031 | 20041105 | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the poet Jack Mapanje. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's guest this week is the poet Jack Mapanje. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's guest this week is the four times Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Jack Vettriano | 20040328 | 20040402 | Sue Lawley talks to the Scottish painter Jack Vettriano. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Jack Whitehall | 20180204 | 20180209 (R4) | Jack Whitehall, stand-up comedian, actor, sit-com writer and producer is Kirsty Young's castaway. He co-wrote and starred in the sitcoms Fresh Meat and Bad Education. He and his father launched their chat-show Backchat in 2013 and recently made a TV series together travelling around Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Jack played Paul Pennyfeather in a TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall in 2016 and has forthcoming roles in Good Omens and a film about Marc Bolan and David Bowie. The son of the talent agent and television producer Michael Whitehall and the actress Hilary Gish, he grew up in Putney. Sent away to boarding school at 11, he performed his first comedy gig aged 16 while still a pupil. He briefly attended Manchester University before he decided to exchange lectures for laughs and make his way in stand-up: he won the King of Comedy award at the British Comedy Awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jack Whitehall, comedian and actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Jackie Kay | 20161023 | 20161028 (R4) | Jackie Kay, poet and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and racial equality. Her first book of poetry, the partly autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. She won the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award for Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet and in 2010 published Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her biological parents. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Chancellor of Salford University and was appointed Makar - Scotland's Poet Laureate - in March 2016. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and racial equality. Her first book of poetry, the partly autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. She won the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award for Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet and in 2010 published Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her biological parents. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Chancellor of Salford University and was appointed Makar - Scotland's Poet Laureate - in March 2016. Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and racial equality. Her first book of poetry, the partly autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. She won the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award for Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet and in 2010 published Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her biological parents. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Chancellor of Salford University and was appointed Makar - Scotland's Poet Laureate - in March 2016.
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| Jackie Mason | 20120311 | 20120316 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the American comedian Jackie Mason. His one-man shows have been pulling in audiences for more than fifty years. Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him, he trained initially as a rabbi - and quickly acquired a reputation for being very funny. "The people who heard my sermons kept saying to me; 'Rabbi, why aren't you a comedian?' I said to myself, maybe I should take the hint." Producer: Leanne Buckle. American comedian Jackie Mason is the latest castaway interviewed by Kirsty Young. American comedian Jackie Mason is the latest castaway interviewed by Kirsty Young Kirsty Young's castaway is the American comedian Jackie Mason. |
| Jacqueline De Rojas, President Of Techuk | 20190324 | 20190329 (R4) | Lauren Laverne’s castaway this week is Jacqueline de Rojas, the President of techUK, the body that represents 900 companies in the technology sector. She is Chair of the Board of Digital Leaders, co-Chair of the Institute of Coding and sits on the government’s Digital Economy Council. She was born Jacqueline Yu in Kent to a Chinese father and British mother, and moved to Swindon when her mother left the marriage. Jacqueline did well at school, particularly in languages, and went on to take a degree in European Business Studies, spending the first year of her course in Southern Germany. She is fluent in German and French. She married after university and, despite dreams of becoming a BBC newsreader, she went to work for a tech recruitment company. After two years she moved to work for her largest client, the software company, Synon, using her German to manage the company’s distribution in Germany. She has stayed in the tech industry ever since, primarily working for blue chip software companies. She became Managing Director of Informix in 1999, and her last managing director role was a seven month stint at Sage in 2016. In 2013 Jacqueline joined the board of techUK, , becoming its President in 2015. A key focus of her tenure has been to make the case for greater diversity in an industry struggling fill the roles that it is creating, particularly in appointing women. She also works as a mentor for a number of organisations and has been an advisor to the Girl Guides since 2016, assisting them in helping to attract girls into STEM subjects. She was appointed a CBE in 2018 for services to international trade in the technology industry. BOOK CHOICE: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
LUXURY: Saxophone
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Jacqueline de Rojas shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Jacqueline Gold | 20181028 | 20181102 (R4) | Jacqueline Gold is the CEO of the retail brands Ann Summers and Knickerbox. She joined the business at the age of 19 for work experience, and faced resistance because her father, David Gold, was the owner. By the time she was 21, she had persuaded the largely sceptical all-male board to invest in her radical idea: to re-invent the Ann Summers brand by selling lingerie and sex toys at women-only parties held in their homes. Along with the parties, there are now over 100 high street shops, with a multi-million pound turnover. Jacqueline’s childhood was difficult after her parents divorced when she was 12. Although she was a shy child, she worked throughout her teens which brought her a degree of financial independence and resilience. Today she’s a strong advocate of female empowerment, supports women in business and has set up the WOW incentive on Twitter. Jacqueline was awarded a CBE in 2016 and was ranked as the 16th wealthiest female entrepreneur by The Sunday Times in 2017. Happily married for the second time, she and her husband Dan underwent several courses of IVF treatment, and she eventually conceived twins. One of the children, Alfie, only survived for eight months. Their daughter, Scarlett is now aged nine. CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Wishin' On A Star - Rose Royce
BOOK CHOICE: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
LUXURY ITEM: Her own feather pillow Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Jacqueline Gold, business woman, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Jacqueline Gold, business woman, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
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| James Corden | 20120212 | 20120217 | Actor and writer James Corden is interviewed by Kirsty Young. , actor and writer of Gavin and Stacey, is Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and writer. As a child he longed to act - he found early success in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys and became a household name for the TV show he devised and co-wrote, Gavin and Stacey. These days he's starring in the West End in the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. It is due to transfer to Broadway in the spring and he says: "I'm well aware that this could well be the best part that I ever play on stage - it's a gift for any actor who has any interest in comedy. It feels like all my dreams come true." Producer: Leanne Buckle. , actor and writer of Gavin & Stacey, is Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and writer. |
| James Corden | 20120217 | | James Corden, actor and writer of Gavin & Stacey, is Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and writer. As a child he longed to act - he found early success in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys and became a household name for the TV show he devised and co-wrote, Gavin and Stacey. These days he's starring in the West End in the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. It is due to transfer to Broadway in the spring and he says: "I'm well aware that this could well be the best part that I ever play on stage - it's a gift for any actor who has any interest in comedy. It feels like all my dreams come true." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor and writer James Corden is interviewed by Kirsty Young. , actor and writer of Gavin and Stacey, is Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and writer. |
| James Ellroy | 20100117 | 20100122 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. His books have been translated into 30 languages and, according to the New York Times, he is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written. But the case that has dominated his life and much of his writing was the murder of his mother when he was just ten years old. In the years since, he has tried to find a way of getting to know and understand her. Record: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 'Hammerklavier', Op. 106 Book: Libra by Don DeLillo Luxury: Sun block. Kirsty Young's castaway is the American crime writer James Ellroy. ![]()
Record: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 'Hammerklavier', Op. 106 Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. |
| James Ellroy | 20100122 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. His books have been translated into 30 languages and, according to the New York Times, he is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written. But the case that has dominated his life and much of his writing was the murder of his mother when he was just ten years old. In the years since, he has tried to find a way of getting to know and understand her. Record: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 'Hammerklavier', Op. 106 Book: Libra by Don DeLillo Luxury: Sun block. |
| James Nesbitt | 20081221 | 20081226 | Kirsty Young invites the actor James Nesbitt to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the actor James Nesbitt to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| James Nesbitt | 20081226 | | Kirsty Young invites the actor James Nesbitt to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the actor James Nesbitt to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the actor James Nesbitt to choose eight records. |
| James Rebanks, Shepherd And Writer | 20190120 | 20190125 (R4) | James Rebanks is a shepherd and the best-selling author of The Shepherd’s Life. Born in Cumbria in 1974, he grew up venerating his grandfather, who taught him what he needed to know in order to take over the family farm from his father one day. He found school an irksome distraction, and left aged 15 with two GCSEs. It wasn’t until his early 20s, after he’d developed an interest in reading and had met his future wife Helen, that he decided to return to study at a local college in the evenings. Encouraged by a tutor, he applied for a place at Oxford University, and graduated with a double first in History. After university, he worked in a number of white-collar jobs, in order to boost his income while ensuring he could continue to work on the farm. He breeds two different types of sheep: Herdwicks, which are a native breed to his part of the world, and Swaledales, which he kept out of respect to his father who died in 2015, just before the publication of James’s first book. He began chronicling his life as a shepherd on Twitter in 2012 but is currently taking a break from tweeting. He and Helen have four children. BOOK CHOICE: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
LUXURY: Pen and Paper
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: A New England by Kirsty MacColl Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale James Rebanks, shepherd and writer, shares his track choices with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. James Rebanks is a shepherd and the best-selling author of The Shepherds Life. Born in Cumbria in 1974, he grew up venerating his grandfather, who taught him what he needed to know in order to take over the family farm from his father one day. He found school an irksome distraction, and left aged 15 with two GCSEs. It wasnt until his early 20s, after hed developed an interest in reading and had met his future wife Helen, that he decided to return to study at a local college in the evenings. Encouraged by a tutor, he applied for a place at Oxford University, and graduated with a double first in History. After university, he worked in a number of white-collar jobs, in order to boost his income while ensuring he could continue to work on the farm. He breeds two different types of sheep: Herdwicks, which are a native breed to his part of the world, and Swaledales, which he kept out of respect to his father who died in 2015, just before the publication of Jamess first book. He began chronicling his life as a shepherd on Twitter in 2012 but is currently taking a break from tweeting. He and Helen have four children. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Jamie Cullum | 20120325 | 20120330 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the jazz pianist and singer Jamie Cullum. His interview was recorded in front of an audience at St George's in Bristol and launched Radio 4's More Than Words Festival. Despite failing his grade four piano exam and, by his own admission, barely being able to read music, Jamie Cullum has won a stack of awards and become hugely popular. He is particularly celebrated for his live shows and we are delighted that in this very special recording, he performed three of his musical choices. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| Jamie Cullum | 20120330 | | Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Jan Pienkowski | 20091018 | 20091023 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his home in England more than 60 years ago. The folk traditions of central Europe are still much in evidence in his work though; twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, his illustrations see childhood terrors realised in gothic scenes, with witches a constant presence. He was born in Warsaw before the Second World War and lived through the uprising of 1944. He spent his childhood in Poland, Bavaria, Vienna and Italy, before making his home in England more than 60 years ago. ![]()
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| Jan Pienkowski | 20091023 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. |
| Jane Gardam | 20171015 | 20171020
20171020 (R4) | Jane Gardam, novelist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Jane Gardam is best known for her trilogy of novels about an ex-colonial QC nicknamed Old Filth. A writer for both adults and children, she has won two Whitbread awards, the Katherine Mansfield Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Born in 1928, she grew up in North Yorkshire where her father was a schoolmaster at a small independent boys' school. Her mother wrote sermons and was an inveterate letter-writer. After graduating, Jane had a number of literary jobs, but gave up working to raise her three young children. Although she wrote poems as a young girl, her writing career didn't begin in earnest until the day her youngest child started school when she began to write her first book. Since then, she has published more than 30 books, including novels for children and adults as well as short stories and a non-fiction volume about the Yorkshire of her youth. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Jane Somerville | 20130707 | 20130712 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cardiologist Jane Somerville. Now an Emeritus Professor in her discipline at Imperial College London she's gained a worldwide reputation for her pioneering work on congenital heart disease. She began studying medicine in the early 1950s when only a very few women were admitted through the doors of medical school. Since then she's been responsible for ground-breaking advances in cardiovascular treatment and founded the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology. She had something of a role model in her mother, a hard-working, clever, successful woman too. Her early years as a pupil at a boys' school in Wales must also have prepared her for making her way in such a heavily male-dominated profession. She has a reputation for being straight-talking, and her late husband used to urge her to be more ""prudent"", but, she says, ""it wasn't fun to be prudent: it was much more fun to be mafioso and naughty." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jane Somerville, cardiologist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Janet Street-porter | 20081123 | 20081128 | Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-Porter to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-Porter to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-Porter to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-Porter to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-porter to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the broadcaster Janet Street-porter to choose eight records. |
| Jared Diamond, Academic And Author | 20190630 | 20190705 (R4) | Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, although his interests and expertise range far wider, from physiology to ornithology, history to ecology and from anthropology to evolutionary biology. His 1997 book, Guns, Germs and Steel, asked why Eurasian civilizations prospered and conquered others. It won a Pulitzer Prize and has sold more than a million copies around the world. He was born in Boston in 1937 to a physician father and a mother who was a teacher and a concert pianist. She taught him to read when he was three and he also learned to play the piano and developed a love of languages. Thinking his professional life would be in science, he decided to focus on the humanities at school, including Latin and Greek. After graduating from Harvard, he moved to England to pursue a PhD in physiology at Cambridge and became an expert on salt absorption in the gall bladder. He returned to the USA, and then his travels took him to New Guinea where he developed a passionate interest in ornithology and a lifelong love of the island which he’s continued to visit for the past 50 years. He has learned 12 languages, speaking several of them fluently, and has published six books and hundreds of articles. His most recent book, Upheaval, examines how nations cope with crisis and change. Jared lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie, a clinical psychologist. They have grown-up twin sons. BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
LUXURY ITEM: Six cases of Scharzhofberger Kabinett, a Riesling wine from the Saar Basin
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bach’s Cantata 50: "Nun ist das Heil" Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Jared Diamond, academic and writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
LUXURY ITEM: Six cases of Scharzhofberger Kabinett, a Riesling wine from the Saar Basin
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bach’s Cantata 50: "Nun ist das Heil" BOOK CHOICE: The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
LUXURY ITEM: Six cases of Scharzhofberger Kabinett, a Riesling wine from the Saar Basin
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bach’s Cantata 50: "Nun ist das Heil" |
| Jarvis Cocker | 20050424 | 20050429 | was born into a family that was, he says relatively Bohemian for SHEFFIELD. A tall, shy boy, he was made to wear Lederhosen to school by his mum. Later on, he decided that if he formed a band girls would want to talk to him. So strong was Cocker's belief that a band was his ticket to a glamorous, adventure-filled life, he gave up a place at university in order to try and make a success of Pulp. He spent six years living on the dole, writing songs and struggling with ever changing-band line-ups before deciding to come to LONDON. He got a place on a film course at St Martin's College, discovered Acid House, began writing songs about where he came from and the people he knew, and Pulp's fortunes began to change. Pulp went on to achieve fame and cult status in the 1990s. Their album, Different Class, sold two million copies and at GLASTONBURY in 1995, Jarvis' song Common People became a pop anthem. Cocker himself lost his way after that triumph. But he's over that now, and is increasingly becoming an important cultural figure in his own right - he's presented a television series on art and has written the music for the latest Harry Potter film. Jarvis Cocker now lives in PARIS with his French wife Camille and their son Albert. Jarvis Cocker was born into a family that was, he says relatively Bohemian for Sheffield. A tall, shy boy, he was made to wear Lederhosen to school by his mum. Later on, he decided that if he formed a band girls would want to talk to him. So strong was Cocker's belief that a band was his ticket to a glamorous, adventure-filled life, he gave up a place at university in order to try and make a success of Pulp. He spent six years living on the dole, writing songs and struggling with ever changing-band line-ups before deciding to come to London. He got a place on a film course at St Martin's College, discovered Acid House, began writing songs about where he came from and the people he knew, and Pulp's fortunes began to change. Pulp went on to achieve fame and cult status in the 1990s. Their album, Different Class, sold two million copies and at Glastonbury in 1995, Jarvis' song Common People became a pop anthem. Cocker himself lost his way after that triumph. But he's over that now, and is increasingly becoming an important cultural figure in his own right - he's presented a television series on art and has written the music for the latest Harry Potter film. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites musician Jarvis Cocker to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Jarvis Cocker now lives in Paris with his French wife Camille and their son Albert. |
| Jasvinder Sanghera | 20130324 | 20130329 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera. She has counselled government and travelled widely advising on how to put a stop to forced marriage and so called honour violence. At 14, Jasvinder was shown a picture of the stranger thousands of miles away she was to marry and in the face of intimidation she fled her family, chose her own husbands and gained a first class degree. Her books have shone a piercing light on the veiled world of shame, brutality and coercion that some young women endure whilst Karma Nirvana, the pioneering charity she set up and runs, offers refuge and practical help. She says, ""my life has had to take paths where responsibility was the key thing. Now I'm at a point in my life where I'm more content than I've ever been. I've reconciled the disownment." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Jayne Torvill And Christopher Dean | 20140216 | 20140221 | Kirsty Young's castaways this week are the ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. It's 30 years since they enthralled the world winning gold at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. So memorable, it was truly a ""where were you when"" moment: the answer for most of us seems to have been in front of the television as 24 million people tuned in to watch their purple chiffoned, passionate, pitch-perfect display. Their enduring partnership is the stuff of sporting legend - British, European, World and Olympic champions - their synchronicity on and off the rink is fascinating. Both brought up in Nottingham, both only children, they took to the ice within a couple of years of each other. Jayne grew up to work as an insurance clerk, Chris was a policeman. They always seemed so normal, so nice, so much like the boy and girl next door. What a neat trick - in reality their originality, training regime and relentless pursuit of perfection has seen them push the boundaries of their chosen sport to rank among the world's elite. Part of our fascination with them also stems from the long scrutiny over their personal relationship. Never mind that over the decades they've both married other people and had children, as recently as last year they finally admitted to a brief teenage 'dabble'. They say, ""It's an unusual relationship that we have.... Of course we love each other. You wouldn't be able to do all that we do without love." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Jayne-anne Gadhia | 20170723 | 20170728
20170728 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Chief Executive of Virgin Money. She is currently the government's Women in Finance Champion. She worked for Fred Goodwin at RBS just prior to the financial crisis before returning to Virgin Money in 2007. A mother of one, she endured many miscarriages and has written about her experience of post-natal depression following her daughter's birth. An only child, she was brought up first in the Midlands, then in East Anglia. She was one of very few girls to attend a newly co-educational boys' school where she was bullied. Following a year spent working in an unemployment office she went to Royal Holloway College in London where she met her future husband, Ash, to whom she's been married for 33 years. Earlier this year she published her autobiography. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jayne-Anne Gadhia, banker, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Jayne-anne Gadhia | 20170728 | | Jayne-Anne Gadhia, banker, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway is Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Chief Executive of Virgin Money. She is currently the government's Women in Finance Champion. She worked for Fred Goodwin at RBS just prior to the financial crisis before returning to Virgin Money in 2007. A mother of one, she endured many miscarriages and has written about her experience of post-natal depression following her daughter's birth. An only child, she was brought up first in the Midlands, then in East Anglia. She was one of very few girls to attend a newly co-educational boys' school where she was bullied. Following a year spent working in an unemployment office she went to Royal Holloway College in London where she met her future husband, Ash, to whom she's been married for 33 years. Earlier this year she published her autobiography. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Jed Mercurio | 20170618 | 20170623 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Jed Mercurio. Creator of Line of Duty, and an award-winning TV writer, producer, director and novelist, he is one of the few British script-writers to work as an American-style show-runner. A former hospital doctor and RAF officer, he has been ranked among UK television's leading writers by TV industry magazine Broadcast. His Italian parents moved to the UK after the Second World War and he was brought up in Cannock in the Midlands. Keen on science as a child, with dreams of becoming an astronaut, he studied medicine at Birmingham University. While there, he applied for the RAF medical doctor programme and learned to fly. While he was working as a hospital doctor, he answered an advertisement in the British Medical Journal seeking advisors for a medical TV drama. Despite negligible writing experience, he went on to script the BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest. Its continuing success led him to leave medicine and embark on a successful career as a scriptwriter. His chief works for TV are the series Line of Duty, Bodies, The Grimleys and Cardiac Arrest. He's also written books: Bodies; Ascent; American Adulterer, and for children, The Penguin Expedition. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jed Mercurio, writer and director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Jed Mercurio | 20170623 | | Jed Mercurio, writer and director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway is Jed Mercurio. Creator of Line of Duty, and an award-winning TV writer, producer, director and novelist, he is one of the few British script-writers to work as an American-style show-runner. A former hospital doctor and RAF officer, he has been ranked among UK television's leading writers by TV industry magazine Broadcast. His Italian parents moved to the UK after the Second World War and he was brought up in Cannock in the Midlands. Keen on science as a child, with dreams of becoming an astronaut, he studied medicine at Birmingham University. While there, he applied for the RAF medical doctor programme and learned to fly. While he was working as a hospital doctor, he answered an advertisement in the British Medical Journal seeking advisors for a medical TV drama. Despite negligible writing experience, he went on to script the BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest. Its continuing success led him to leave medicine and embark on a successful career as a scriptwriter. His chief works for TV are the series Line of Duty, Bodies, The Grimleys and Cardiac Arrest. He's also written books: Bodies; Ascent; American Adulterer, and for children, The Penguin Expedition. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Producer: Cathy Drysdale." |
| Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General Of Nato | 20200712 | 20200717 (R4) | Jens Stoltenberg is the Secretary General of NATO and a former Prime Minister of Norway. Although he was born into a political family in Norway, he grew up thinking he would become a statistician, before turning to a career in politics. He served as the Prime Minister of Norway twice. During his second term, Norway experienced one of the darkest days in its recent history, when 77 people were murdered in a bomb attack in Oslo and a mass shooting on a nearby island. Before becoming the Secretary General of NATO, a post he has held since 2014, he spent time as a UN Special Envoy on climate change. His term in office as Secretary-General has been extended until September 2022. DISC ONE: Lift Me by Madrugada and Ane Brun
DISC TWO: No Harm by Smerz
DISC THREE: So Long, Marianne by Leonard Cohen
DISC FOUR: Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen
DISC FIVE: Make You Feel My Love by Ane Brun
DISC SIX: Til Ungdommen by Ingebjørg Bratland
DISC SEVEN: Free Nelson Mandela by The Special A.K.A.
DISC EIGHT: From Up Here by Ingrid Olava BOOK CHOICE: A statistics textbook
LUXURY ITEM: A pair of skis
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Til Ungdommen by Ingebjørg Bratland Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Photo credit: NATO Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Sec Gen, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: Guests share what they would take to a desert island |
| Jeremy Clarkson | 20031116 | 20031121 (R4) | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the motoring journalist and motor-mouth Jeremy Clarkson. He came from a comfortable background - his mother was a teacher and his father a travelling salesman. But his parents had greater ambitions for their son and wanted to send him to public school. Their determination led his mother to set up a business making Paddington Bear toys, and the proceeds funded Jeremy's place at Repton School. However, he was a far from ideal pupil and says he was 'asked to leave' apparently for inappropriate behaviour including drinking, smoking and seducing girls. He left school with no A-levels and started work as a trainee reporter on the Rotherham Advertiser. But the local news diet was not enough of a challenge and, in the middle of an assignment to a vegetable and produce show, he left the paper to seek his fortune in London, as a freelance motoring writer. He ended up presenting Top Gear for the BBC and stayed on the programme for nine years, kick-starting it into a brash, opinionated motor show with a large and loyal fan base. He has indulged his love of speed and risk-taking through programmes including Extreme Machines and Speed. He's hosted a chat-show, Clarkson, and, more recently, his razor-sharp tongue has turned on our fellow Europeans with Meet the Neighbours. But, although his public image is as a brash, opinionated and sexist boor, he claims that he's been misrepresented - he says he's always been a bit of a mother's boy: his mother describes him as a family man who has a softer side that the public never sees. Married to his agent-cum-manager Francie, the couple have three children and two homes. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Time by Pink Floyd
Book: Photograph album
Luxury: Jet ski Sue Lawley's castaway is motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Jeremy Deller, Artist | 20190106 | 20190111 (R4) | The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is perhaps best known for We’re Here Because We’re Here, a moving and powerful memorial to the Battle of the Somme, and The Battle of Orgreave – a re-enactment of the confrontation between police and pickets at the height of the miners’ strike. Deller doesn’t paint, draw or sculpt and his work encompasses film, photography and installations. At school his creative endeavours were not always appreciated, and at 13 he was asked to leave the art class. His lifelong love of history was ignited by childhood trips to museums with his father, and is evident in the subjects he addresses, from Stonehenge, which he re-created as a giant bouncy castle, to William Morris. He managed to meet Andy Warhol in London in 1986 and went to spend two formative weeks at Warhol’s New York City studio, the Factory. The experience crystallised in Deller the belief that art can come in many forms and that an artist can create their own world of ideas. His memorial to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre will be unveiled in August 2019. BOOK CHOICE: An A to Z London Street Atlas
LUXURY: A stretch of road over Hay Bluff between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny.
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Out of the Blue by Roxy Music. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Paula McGinley Jeremy Deller, artist, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
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| Jeremy Hutchinson | 20131020 | 20131025 | Kirsty Young talks to Jeremy Hutchinson, former barrister and member of the House of Lords Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the former barrister and member of The House of Lords, Jeremy Hutchinson. His life spans eleven decades of British history and he has spent much of it at the very centre of the action. Born during the First World War, he was brought up in the company of some of the greatest artists and writers of the day. In World War II, he escaped his bombed-out ship clinging to a life raft with Lord Mountbatten. At the Bar he played a central role in many of the seismic trials of the day - among them defending the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover against obscenity charges and Christine Keeler in the Profumo Affair trial. His brilliance in cross-examination inspired John Mortimer's creation of the character Rumpole of The Bailey. He enjoyed two long marriages - his first to the actress Peggy Ashcroft, his second, for 40 years, to June Osborn, and he spent 23 years as an active member of The House of Lords. He says, ""I had the luck to live when the world of the Establishment was being dismantled. The whole of one's career was to do with what was going on in society." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Jerry Springer | 20091101 | 20091106 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Jerry Springer. His life has been split between serving the public and outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show. He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August 1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the entire family. Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Jerry Springer His life has been split between serving the public and outraging them. His first career was in politics where, as a life-long Democrat, one of his early jobs was working with Bobby Kennedy. Then he found global fame with his controversial TV programme, The Jerry Springer Show. He says that in politics and in his TV show, he is always on the side of the powerless and disenfranchised. It's a philosophy, he says, he learned from his parents. They were among the last Jews to escape from Berlin in August 1939 and their memories and fears of that time shaped the entire family. ![]()
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| Jerry Springer | 20091106 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Jerry Springer. Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Jerry Springer. |
| Jilly Cooper | 20160731 | 20160805 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews writer Jilly Cooper. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Jilly Cooper. Her long writing career spans newspaper columns for the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, non-fiction books on class, marriage and animals in war and novels that sell in their millions. Her romances set in the late seventies - including 'Bella', 'Harriett', 'Imogen' and 'Prudence' - were followed by 'Riders' in 1985, the first of her Rutshire Chronicles. Set mainly in the Cotswolds, they are racy and raunchy page-turners exposing the scandalous - and often hilarious - goings on among the British upper classes. Born in 1937 in Essex, she was brought up in Yorkshire and enjoyed a happy childhood surrounded by dogs and ponies. At boarding school she earned the nickname, 'the unholy terror' and having failed to get into Oxford and being sacked from a number of jobs for her inability to type, she turned to journalism before publishing her first book, 'How to Stay Married' in 1969. She married Leo Cooper in 1961 and, unable to have children of their own, the couple adopted Felix and Emily in the late 1960s. The couple were married for 52 years before his death in 2013. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews writer Jilly Cooper. 
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| Jimmy Carr | 20170305 | 20170310 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and television presenter Jimmy Carr. He is the son of Irish immigrant parents and grew up in Berkshire. Despite being dyslexic, he got good enough A levels to study at Cambridge University. After graduating with a degree in Political Science, and working for a major multinational company in London, Jimmy had what he calls an 'early midlife crisis', during which he lost his Catholic faith and was generally unhappy. He attended lots of therapy courses in an attempt to find out what would make him happier and eventually set out on the road to becoming a comedian. He quickly got a reputation for his fierce work ethic, heading up annually to the Edinburgh Fringe, touring with a new show virtually every year, and hosting many a Channel 4 panel show including 8 Out of 10 Cats and the Big Fat Quiz of the Year. He has also made a name for himself by becoming what he has called "the king of the inappropriate", drawing criticism for making jokes about sensitive subjects. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Jimmy Carr, comedian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. 
He has also made a name for himself by becoming what he has called ""the king of the inappropriate"", drawing criticism for making jokes about sensitive subjects. 
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| Jimmy Mulville | 20100801 | 20100806 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedy producer, writer and actor Jimmy Mulville. Kirsty Young's castaway is Jimmy Mulville. He began his life in comedy as a performer and writer but success in front of the camera clearly wasn't enough - he set up the production company Hat Trick and has turned out a huge number of hits, including "Have I Got News for You", "Father Ted" "Room 101" and "Outnumbered". But he says that for many years he was a ticking time bomb - he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and, after triumphing over them, also fought cancer. These days, he is the father to four children and says he looks back with an overwhelming sense of gratitude at how his life has unfolded. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedy producer, writer and actor Jimmy Mulville But he says that for many years he was a ticking time bomb - he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and, after triumphing over them, also fought cancer. These days, he is the father to four children and says he looks back with an overwhelming sense of gratitude at how his life has unfolded. ![]()
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| Jimmy Tarbuck | 20040111 | 20040116
20040116 (R4) | Sue Lawley invites the entertainer Jimmy Tarbuck to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the entertainer Jimmy Tarbuck. Originally from Liverpool, he began his career as a redcoat at Butlins holiday camp. He went on to become a compere at the London Palladium and fronted numerous comedy and game shows including 'Winner Takes All'.
In recent years he's returned to the stand up circuit and is a popular after-dinner speaker. He's also turned his passion for golf into a new venture with a series of videos on the world's best and worst courses. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Oh! My Beloved Father (O Mio Babbino Caro) by Giacomo Puccini
Book: The Essential Henry Longhurst by Henry Longhurst
Luxury: Own set of golf clubs and balls Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Jimmy Tarbuck Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Jimmy Wales | 20150524 | 20150529 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales. He is best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and was the eldest child of a grocery store manager and his wife who ran a primary school where Jimmy and his siblings were educated. After acquiring a degree in finance and working as a trader in Chicago, his first serious foray into the online world was with the web portal Bomis, before branching out with a project called Nupedia, an online encyclopedia with entries written by scholars and published after undergoing peer review. Wikipedia launched in 2001 and now exists in 287 languages and is the 7th most accessed website in the world with over 20 billion page views per month. It can be edited by anyone though relies on a core of around 5,000 volunteers who are responsible for the majority of the content. It is Jimmy's aim to create ""a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Jo Fairley, Businesswoman | 20190811 | 20190816 (R4) | Jo Fairley is a businesswoman and writer. She co-founded the Green & Black’s chocolate company with Craig Sams, her husband, and has launched several other successful ventures since then. Jo did not enjoy school, left at 16 with six O-levels and learned shorthand and typing at a secretarial college. She got a job with a magazine publisher and worked her way up through the features department to become the UK’s youngest magazine editor at the age of 23. Her move into chocolate came when she happened to try a couple of squares of a sample sitting on the desk of her future husband, Craig Sams, a health foods entrepreneur. Jo decided that it was the best she had ever tasted. She bought two tonnes of chocolate for £20,000, using all of the proceeds from the flat she had just sold. She and Craig launched Green & Black’s in 1991 and sold the company to Cadbury’s in 2005. BOOK CHOICE: Edible: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants by National Geographic
LUXURY ITEM: Her own pillow
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: I Wanna Be Like You by Louis Prima Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor Jo Fairley, businesswoman, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| Jo Malone | 20150111 | 20150116 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, Jo Malone. If her name automatically conjures the citrusy scents of lime, basil and mandarin or spicy notes of amber and lavender then you're doubtless one of the customers who flock into the eponymous stores to buy the products that have made her a household name. Aged nine, she would grind sandlewood and strain juniper at the kitchen table. 17 years later fashionable London flocked to her little salon in Chelsea to be massaged with oils and unguents. In the 1990s the brand went international and the fragrance made her fortune when she sold the business. If this all sounds like a fragrant little fairy tale, crisply wrapped in a signature black grosgrain bow, it isn't. Severely dyslexic she left school at 14. Her dad was a talented painter but a chronic gambler too, and home life was sometimes hand-to-mouth. Later, and at a time in her life when she should have been enjoying her success and her toddler son, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. Finally fully recovered she decided to start again from scratch. She says, 'I love sharing my story, and I'm not frightened of people seeing the cracks as well as the strengths. I think the things that are sad and difficult are just as important.' Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Jo Malone, businesswoman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, Jo Malone. Jo Malone, businesswoman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Joan Plowright | 20060827 | 20060901 | actress Dame Joan Plowright. Sue Lawley invites actress Dame Joan Plowright to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Sue Lawley invites actress Dame Joan Plowright to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Jockey Frankie Dettori | 20060115 | 20060120 | Sue Lawley invites the jockey Frankie Dettori to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites jockey Frankie Dettori to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Joe Simpson | 20040919 | 20040924 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the mountaineer and author Joe Simpson. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the mountaineer and author Joe Simpson. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Joe Wicks, Fitness Trainer And Author | 20200614 | 20200619 (R4) | Joe Wicks, fitness coach, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Joe Wicks, professionally known as The Body Coach, is a fitness and nutrition coach. Since the lockdown, he has been running daily free virtual PE lessons for children and adults stuck at home. In March he became a Guinness World Record holder after his second PE with Joe class was watched by 955,158 people around the world, a record number of viewers for a live streamed YouTube workout. Getting children to be more active has been a long-held ambition and in 2019 he went on a tour of fifteen schools around the UK delivering High Intensity Interval Training workouts as part of his mission to get school children working out for 15 minutes a day. Born in 1985, Joe’s mother was nineteen when she gave birth to him while his father was in and out of his life with a heroin addiction. He was a hyperactive child whose salvation at school was channelling his excess energy into PE lessons. With a Sports Science degree under his belt, he briefly became a teaching assistant himself, but found it wasn’t for him and set himself up as a personal trainer instead, preaching the importance of combining training with the right nutrition. With the advent of the video function on Instagram, he started posting free 15-second recipes using the name The Body Coach, building up a following of first hundreds, then thousands and eventually millions. His phenomenally successful business began when he created a commercial 90-day plan with workouts and meals. He published Lean in 15 in 2015 which became the bestselling non-fiction book of the year, and he has since written eight further cook books. He married his wife, Rosie, in 2019 and the couple have two children, Indie and Marley. DISC ONE: Shotgun by George Ezra
DISC TWO: Bright Side of the Road by Van Morrison
DISC THREE: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley And The Wailers
DISC FOUR: When You Were Young by The Killers
DISC FIVE: Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
DISC SIX: River by Leon Bridges
DISC SEVEN: Nothing Can Change This Love by Sam Cooke
DISC EIGHT: You’re Welcome by Dwayne Johnson BOOK CHOICE: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
LUXURY ITEM: An acoustic guitar
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: River by Leon Bridges Presenter: Lauren Laverne
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| John Agard | 20141116 | 20141121 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard. His work is studied widely in British schools. He was the BBC's first poet in residence and along with WH Auden and Philip Larkin, he's a recipient of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in Guyana he arrived here in the mid-1970s already playing with words like some people play with musical notes. If his style is often satirical, his subjects provide wincing realism - examining the scars of slavery or the historical myopia of a shared past judged solely through European eyes. He says he believes that ""the poet keeps us in touch with the vulnerable core of language that makes us what we are." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to poet and playwright John Agard. |
| John Bishop | 20120624 | 20120629 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian John Bishop. Growing up on a Merseyside council estate, his early ambition was to play football for Liverpool - otherwise, he thought he might find a way out by winning the Pools or joining a band. The youngest of four children, his family were, he says, the kind that filled factory floors rather than lecture halls. Now a hugely popular stand-up comedian, it was a failing marriage and a sense of desperation that led him, one night, to a comedy bar. He decided to give it a try - it turned his life, and marriage, around. There was a time where the stand-up was the thing that I think kept me sane - it was like therapy and if I stopped doing it, I would go backwards." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Comedian John Bishop is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| John Cale | 20040222 | 20040227 | Sue Lawley invites John Cale, the musician and founder of the Velvet Underground, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. John Cale was brought up in a strict South Wales household. But from a young age he was determined to increase his cultural influences - he would stay awake through the night, covertly listening to modern composers on the third service and on Radio Moscow and he would send away for contemporary music scores from the LONDON music libraries. He went on to have viola lessons at the Royal Academy of Music while also studying music at Goldsmiths' Teacher Training College in LONDON. He was talent spotted by Aaron Copland and awarded a musical scholarship to study in America, where he was part of the contemporary avant-garde music scene there - working with John Cage and LaMonte Young, until he met Lou Reed and the two formed Velvet Underground. They were almost immediately adopted by Andy Warhol and effectively became a house band at the Factory. The group then became one of the most important musical influences of the 1960s. |
| John Cooper Clarke, Poet | 20190721 | 20190726 (R4) | John Cooper Clarke first achieved fame with his poetry during the punk rock era of the late 1970s. Born in Salford in 1949 to Hilda and George, he suffered from tuberculosis as a child and was sent to recuperate with a relative in Wales. He failed his 11 plus exam and was educated at a secondary modern school which he hated. However the one “rose in a garden of weeds” was his English teacher, Mr Malone, who instilled a love of poetry in John and his classmates. John had various odd jobs after leaving school at 15 and by his mid-20s, he was reciting his poetry in clubs around Manchester. His entry into the punk scene was helped, he says, by “already looking like a punk”, and despite some initially hostile receptions from audiences waiting for the Sex Pistols or the Buzzcocks, he acquired a cult status, going on to release five albums of his poetry set to music by former Joy Division producer Martin Hannett. By early 1980s, he was also in the grip of a heroin addiction which would see him write very little for over a decade. He cleaned up in the early 90s after marrying his second wife, Evie, and having a daughter, Stella. His star began to rise again in 2007 when one of his poems was used in an episode of The Sopranos and others were included on the GCSE syllabus, which led to collaborations with artists like Plan B and Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys. BOOK CHOICE: Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
LUXURY ITEM: A boulder of opium twice the size of his head
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: How Great Thou Art by Elvis Presley Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale John Cooper Clarke, poet, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. John Cooper Clarke first achieved fame with his poetry during the punk rock era of the late 1970s. Born in Salford in 1949 to Hilda and George, he suffered from tuberculosis as a child and was sent to recuperate with a relative in Wales. He failed his 11 plus exam and was educated at a secondary modern school which he hated. However the one “rose in a garden of weeds” was his English teacher, Mr Malone, who instilled a love of poetry in John and his classmates. John Cooper Clarke, poet, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| John Copley | 20100103 | 20100108
20100606 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. 
Throughout his 60-year career, Copley has worked with all the greats at the major opera houses of the world. He introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called upon to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years old when he first saw an opera and he loved it straight away; 'I caught opera', he says, 'like the measles'. Record: Janet Baker singing Handel's Ariodante Book: Grove's Operatic Dictionary of Music Luxury: My 49-year-old double bed. Kirsty Young's castaway is the opera director John Copley. Throughout his sixty year career he's worked with all the greats at the major opera houses of the world. He introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called upon to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years old when he first saw an opera and he loved it straight away; ""I caught opera,"" he says, ""like the measles"". Producer: Leanne Buckle. ![]()
Record: Janet Baker singing Handel's Ariodante Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. ![]()
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| John Copley | 20100103 | 20100606 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the opera director John Copley. Throughout his sixty year career he's worked with all the greats at the major opera houses of the world. He introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called upon to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years old when he first saw an opera and he loved it straight away; ""I caught opera,"" he says, ""like the measles"". Record: Janet Baker singing Handel's Ariodante Book: Grove's Operatic Dictionary of Music Luxury: My 49-year-old double bed. Producer: Leanne Buckle. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. Throughout his 60-year career, Copley has worked with all the greats at the major opera houses of the world. He introduced Luciano Pavarotti to a London audience, charmed Georg Solti with his piano playing and was even called upon to stand in for Maria Callas. He was just ten years old when he first saw an opera and he loved it straight away; 'I caught opera', he says, 'like the measles'. ![]()
Kirsty Young's castaway is the opera director John Copley. Record: Janet Baker singing Handel's Ariodante Book: Grove's Operatic Dictionary of Music Luxury: My 49-year-old double bed. |
| John Copley | 20100108 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. Kirsty Young's castaway is opera director John Copley. |
| John Graham | 20110710 | 20110715 | Setter of fiendish crosswords, John Graham (Araucaria) joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Setter of crosswords John Graham joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| John Graham | 20110715 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the crossword compiler John Graham. Now aged 90, he works under the name Araucaria and, for more than fifty years, has infuriated, intrigued and entertained with fiendish clues and mind-twisting anagrams. Like his father and grandfather he became a vicar but, when divorce forced him to leave the church, crosswords provided an unlikely source of revenue. Of the skills needed to dream up cryptic clues, he says: "So much of it is something that goes on unconsciously. You see the word, you play with it in your mind, you don't actually think about the punters at all at that stage, you try and do it for yourself. I hope that it equips one for life in the sense that it makes one think more clearly and that can only be good." Record: Haydn - The Heavens are Telling Book: The complete works of Saki. Luxury: A telescope Producer: Leanne Buckle. Setter of crosswords John Graham joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Setter of fiendish crosswords, John Graham (Araucaria) joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| John Gray | 20180311 | 20180316 (R4) | John Gray is a philosopher. His academic career included professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and visiting professorships at Harvard and Yale in the USA. He retired from academia in 2008, and has dedicated himself to writing full time since then. He is the lead book reviewer of the New Statesman and a regular contributor to the Guardian. Born in 1948 in South Shields, his father was a Tyneside dock worker, his mother a homemaker. A voracious reader as a child, and encouraged by his history teacher at his grammar school, he won a scholarship to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. Initially of the political Left, he became an advocate of the policies of the Right before the advent of Thatcherism. He then moved again to the Left. He supported the Leave cause in the Brexit referendum. John contends that history is not progressive, but cyclical, and that any improvements other than certain scientific discoveries can be easily lost or reversed. He cites the use of torture against terror suspects as an example. John has written several influential books, including False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism (1998), which predicted the global financial crisis; Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002), which attacked philosophical humanism; and Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (2007), a critique of Utopian thinking in the modern world. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Philosopher and writer John Gray is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews another castaway. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| John Humphrys | 20080106 | 20080111
20080111 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys. For 21 years he has been at the helm of Today, Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme. Millions of devoted listeners enjoy his tenacious interviewing style - and it's won him a healthy respect from politicians too. Not all are supporters though; Jonathan Aitken accused him of "poisoning the well of democratic debate" - an attack which he initially thought would cost him his career. Now, his life is dominated not only by the alarm bell - which is set for 3.58am - but by his youngest son, Owen. When John Humphrys describes the joy and warmth the seven-year-old has brought him, he becomes, if only temporarily, lost for words. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Opening of Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar
Book: Biggest poetry anthology possible
Luxury: A cello. Kirsty Young's castaway is broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. John Humphrys |
| John Lloyd | 20121118 | 20121123 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the director, producer and writer, John Lloyd. His work has been making us laugh for over thirty years: Spitting Image, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Blackadder and QI are just a handful of the programmes he's helped to create. If the comedy work ever dries up he could open a shop selling second hand Baftas - he's won a stack of them and a Grammy and an Emmy. Which isn't to say it's been an easy ride - fall outs, multiple sackings and missed opportunities have peppered his stellar career in comedy. He says, I like starting things... there are starters and finishers in life, that's the great divide... I like the fight and the passion and the difficulty - well I don't like it, but it's what I do"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to director, producer and writer John Lloyd |
| John Mcenroe | 20170716 | 20170721 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the tennis player and commentator, John McEnroe. He won three singles and five doubles Wimbledon titles, four singles and four doubles at the US Open and was ranked number one in the world for four consecutive years in the 1980s. John McEnroe grew up in New York and didn't pick up a tennis racquet until the age of eight, but his talent was quickly spotted and he began to compete in junior tournaments. In 1977, aged 18 and between high school and university, he qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon and reached the semi-finals where he lost to Jimmy Connors. By the end of the tournament his on-court behaviour - shouting, haranguing umpires and abusing his racquet - earned him the nickname 'Superbrat'. He made his first Wimbledon final against Bjorn Borg in 1980. In one of the finest matches in history, despite winning a tiebreak 18-16 to win the fourth set, he lost the match. He beat Borg the following year to win his first Wimbledon singles title. 1984 was the best year in John's career: he won 82 out of 85 matches he played, but it was also the year when he was beaten at the French Open by Ivan Lendl, who replaced him as number one. John married the actress Tatum O'Neal in 1986. They divorced in the mid-1990s and he has been married to the singer Patty Smyth since 1997. Since retiring in 1992, in addition to his role as tennis commentator, he has been a coach and runs his own tennis academy. He still plays in tennis tournaments. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. John McEnroe, tennis player, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| John Mcenroe | 20170721 | | John McEnroe, tennis player, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kirsty Young's castaway is the tennis player and commentator, John McEnroe. He won three singles and five doubles Wimbledon titles, four singles and four doubles at the US Open and was ranked number one in the world for four consecutive years in the 1980s. John McEnroe grew up in New York and didn't pick up a tennis racquet until the age of eight, but his talent was quickly spotted and he began to compete in junior tournaments. In 1977, aged 18 and between high school and university, he qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon and reached the semi-finals where he lost to Jimmy Connors. By the end of the tournament his on-court behaviour - shouting, haranguing umpires and abusing his racquet - earned him the nickname 'Superbrat'. He made his first Wimbledon final against Bjorn Borg in 1980. In one of the finest matches in history, despite winning a tiebreak 18-16 to win the fourth set, he lost the match. He beat Borg the following year to win his first Wimbledon singles title. 1984 was the best year in John's career: he won 82 out of 85 matches he played, but it was also the year when he was beaten at the French Open by Ivan Lendl, who replaced him as number one. John married the actress Tatum O'Neal in 1986. They divorced in the mid-1990s and he has been married to the singer Patty Smyth since 1997. Since retiring in 1992, in addition to his role as tennis commentator, he has been a coach and runs his own tennis academy. He still plays in tennis tournaments. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| John Motson | 20180617 | 20180622 (R4) | John Walker Motson, OBE, also known as Motty, has been commentating on football since 1971. He covered more than 2000 games on television and radio, including all the major football championships, 29 FA Cup finals (with an additional five replays), 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 200 England games. At the age of 72 he's just retired. Known not only for his footballing knowledge and his voice, he is often recognised by his knee-length sheepskin coat. His passion for football was ignited by his father, a Methodist minister for 40 years, who on his one day off each week would take his only son to watch football. The first game John attended was at Charlton Athletic when he was seven, and the excitement of it inspired him to create scrapbooks of footballing facts and collect match programmes. After five years at boarding school, where he wasn't allowed to play football, he left at 16 after one term doing A levels. He joined the Barnet Press as a trainee reporter and then moved onto the Sheffield Telegraph. When BBC Radio Sheffield, one of the first six local radio stations, came on air, he was one of the reporters pulled in to give match summaries. He then moved to the BBC as a sports assistant in radio, before joining the Match of the Day team on television. He has been supported in his career by his solicitor wife, Annie, who meticulously kept details of every match in thick A4 books which John used for his preparation. He was awarded an OBE for services to football and in May 2018 he was honoured by BAFTA with a Special Award for his lifetime's work. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. John Motson, broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. , broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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20111030 (6M) | Ahead of Pete Townshend's delivery of the first ever John Peel Lecture, hear the great broadcaster himself, in conversation with Sue Lawley for Desert Island Discs. In the 1990 interview, John talks about his life at public school, his work as a DJ in the States in the early 60s, his family, his passion for Liverpool Football Club and, of course, his lifelong passion for music. His discs include Handel's Zadok The Priest, a bit of Rachmaninov, some Mark E Smith, and his all-time favourite record, Teenage Kicks by The Undertones. Another chance to hear John Peel in conversation with Sue Lawley back in 1990. First broadcast on 1990-01-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR Robin Day Previous in series: DENNIS SKINNER Description SBH:Disc jockey interviewed on his life and career and chooses eight records to take with him to an imaginary desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. 1:Zadok the Priest (Handel) 2:It's Over - Roy Orbison 3:Too Much - Jimmy Reed 4:Mankind - Misty in Roots 5:Teenage Kicks - Undertones (Favourite record) 6:Piano Concerto No 2 (Rachmaninov) 7:Eat Y'self Fitter - The Fall 8:Pasi Pano Pane Zviedzo - Four Brothers BOOK: A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell LUXURY: A football Script Cont Broadcast history 14 Jan 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Jan 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Peel (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 421506. SBH:Disc jockey interviewed on his life & career & chooses eight records to take with him to an imaginary desert island. SBH:Disc jockey interviewed on his life and career and chooses eight records to take with him to an imaginary desert island. |
| John Timpson | 20160327 | 20160401 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews businessman John Timpson. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman, John Timpson. He is chairman of his eponymous high street retailers and the business is in his blood: started by his great-grandfather in 1865 it is now run by one of his sons. Although he fulfilled his family's expectations by running the family firm, he's a man who ploughs his own furrow as all his staff are given the day off on their birthday, and can use the company's holiday homes for free. A proponent of what he calls 'upside down management', his employees, all of whom are called 'colleagues', enjoy an unusual degree of autonomy in the running of the individual shops and 10% of the company's employees have spent time in prison. Married to his late wife Alex for over 47 years, together they fostered 90 children. He has written several books on leadership and pens a weekly business advice column. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews businessman John Timpson. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman, John Timpson. He is chairman of his eponymous high street retailers and the business is in his blood: started by his great-grandfather in 1865 it is now run by one of his sons. Although he fulfilled his family's expectations by running the family firm, he's a man who ploughs his own furrow as all his staff are given the day off on their birthday, and can use the company's holiday homes for free. A proponent of what he calls 'upside down management', his employees, all of whom are called 'colleagues', enjoy an unusual degree of autonomy in the running of the individual shops and 10% of the company's employees have spent time in prison.
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| Johnny Vegas | 20101003 | 20101008 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the entertainer Johnny Vegas. As a stand-up comic he made his name as one of the most brilliant and unpredictable acts on the circuit. His stage persona was a belligerent drunk who would heckle his own audience. But the more successful he became, the more the similarities between his own life and his stage character seemed to blur. "I found popularity through self-destruction" he says, "and that can be quite addictive". In recent years, he has cut down on his drinking, lost weight and now got engaged - all part of a plan to ensure he reached his 40th birthday and could be a proper father to his young son. "Life's actually turned around and been very good to me," he says. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Comedian Johnny Vegas joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: Hurt - Johnny Cash Book: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Luxury: A Kiln. As a stand-up comic he made his name as one of the most brilliant and unpredictable acts on the circuit. His stage persona was a belligerent drunk who would heckle his own audience. But the more successful he became, the more the similarities between his own life and his stage character seemed to blur. "I found popularity through self-destruction" he says, "and that can be quite addictive". In recent years, he has cut down on his drinking, lost weight and now got engaged - all part of a plan to ensure he reached his 40th birthday and could be a proper father to his young son. "Life's actually turned around and been very good to me," he says. |
| Johnny Vegas | 20101008 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the entertainer Johnny Vegas. As a stand-up comic he made his name as one of the most brilliant and unpredictable acts on the circuit. His stage persona was a belligerent drunk who would heckle his own audience. But the more successful he became, the more the similarities between his own life and his stage character seemed to blur. "I found popularity through self-destruction" he says, "and that can be quite addictive". In recent years, he has cut down on his drinking, lost weight and now got engaged - all part of a plan to ensure he reached his 40th birthday and could be a proper father to his young son. "Life's actually turned around and been very good to me," he says. Producer: Leanne Buckle Record: Hurt - Johnny Cash Book: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Luxury: A Kiln. Comedian Johnny Vegas joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: Hurt - Johnny Cash |
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20110204 (R4) |  Journalist and TV presenter Jon Snow joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist Jon Snow. For the past 21 years he's been the face of Channel Four's nightly bulletins where, along with his patent enthusiasm and vigour for dissecting the day's stories, he's noted for his natty line in neckties and socks. He's a highly experienced foreign correspondent too - he's reported from Haiti, New Orleans, Washington and East Africa among many locations. However it was in El Salvador that he found his name on the list of people who might be targeted by death squads. It was, he says, something of a 'badge of honour'. "I cry on location", he says, "and it's a good thing, because otherwise you bottle it up and come home bonkers." Producer: Leanne Buckle. He's a highly experienced foreign correspondent too - he's reported from Haiti, New Orleans, Washington and East Africa among many locations. However it was in El Salvador that he found his name on the list of people who might be targeted by death squads. It was, he says, something of a 'badge of honour'. ""I cry on location"", he says, ""and it's a good thing, because otherwise you bottle it up and come home bonkers." Record: Petite Messe Solennelle Book: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Luxury: A set of watercolours and an endless supply of paper
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| Jonas Kaufmann | 20150222 | 20150227 (R4) |  Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the tenor, Jonas Kaufmann. Frequently referred to as one of the greatest singers of his generation, both his parents fled East Germany for Munich between the end of the war and the Berlin wall being erected. Jonas was brought up singing in choirs, playing the piano and listening to a range of classical music. When he was seven, he was enthralled by seeing his first opera - Madam Butterfly. He studied Maths at university, but soon changed to music and quickly started getting professional singing work. Since then he has taken on many of the great roles for tenors, at opera houses around the world - Don Carlo, Don José (Carmen), Alfredo (La Traviata), and Cavaradossi (Tosca). He is also known as a singer of 'Lieder' and renowned not only for the beauty of his voice but for his musical range. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Since then he has taken on many of the great roles for tenors, at opera houses around the world - Don Carlo, Don José (Carmen), Alfredo (La Traviata), and Cavaradossi (Tosca). He is also known as a singer of 'Lieder' & renowned not only for the beauty of his voice but for his musical range.
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20180807 (BBC7) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew. Known simply as ""Aggers"" to the army of fans devoted to Test Match Special, his charm, knowledge and ready wit have gained him a place in the heart of anyone who loves the game. His own infatuation began as a young boy at boarding school and along with his talent and determination it took him all the way to the top of the sportDilemma His own infatuation began as a young boy at boarding school and along with his talent and determination it took him all the way to the top of the sport. He played for Leicestershire and England. His transition from the crease to the commentary box was cemented by one of the most memorable moments in broadcasting history - the notorious ""legover"" comment that prompted the legendary Brian Johnston to dissolve into helpless, prolonged giggles live on air. He says ""The great thing about our job is that you have no pre-conceived idea about what is going to happen - you have no script - the cricket is the script"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. His own infatuation began as a young boy at boarding school and along with his talent and determination it took him all the way to the top of the sport. He played for Leicestershire and England. His transition from the crease to the commentary box was cemented by one of the most memorable moments in broadcasting history - the notorious ""legover"" comment that prompted the legendary Brian Johnston to dissolve into helpless, prolonged giggles live on air. 01 06 LAST 20111218 This edition features comedians Zoe Lyons and Phill Jupitus, author Simon Garfield and the actor and writer Humphrey Ker. This week the guests are dealt quandaries involving swapped babies, one-night stands, and biochip crime prevention. They also solve some dilemmas the audience have brought along. Sue Perkins and guests consider swapped babies, one-night stands and crime prevention. Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical wringer in this show show in which there are no ""right"" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. This edition features comedians Zoe Lyons and Phill Jupitus, author Simon Garfield and the actor and writer Humphrey Ker. This week the guests are dealt quandaries involving swapped babies, one-night stands, and biochip crime prevention. They also solve some dilemmas the audience have brought along. The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and writer Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). Producer: Ed Morrish. Sue Perkins sets moral and ethical posers for Zoe Lyons and Phill Jupitus, Simon Garfield. 
Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. Featuring Zoe Lyons, Phill Jupitus, Simon Garfield and Humphrey Ker. Ethical posers involving swapped babies, one-night stands and biochip crime prevention. Sue Perkins hosts a panel show in which guests are posed moral and ethical choices Sue Perkins puts Zoe Lyons, Phill Jupitus, Simon Garfield and Humphrey Ker through the moral and ethical wringer in the show where there are no "right" answers - but some deeply damning ones... Quandaries on the agenda include swapped babies, one-night stands, and biochip crime prevention. They also try to solve some dilemmas the audience have brought along. Devised by Danielle Ward. Producer: Ed Morrish. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Jonathan Miller | 20050123 | 20050128 | Sue Lawley invites the writer, director and sometime scientist Dr Jonathan Miller to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the writer, director and sometime scientist Dr Jonathan Miller to choose eight records to take to radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the writer, director and sometime scientist Dr Jonathan Miller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Journalist Katherine Whitehorn | 20050501 | 20050506 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is journalist Katherine Whitehorn. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites journalist Katharine Whitehorn to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Joyce Didonato | 20160925 | 20160930 (R4) | Joyce DiDonato is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Winner of two Grammy Awards, she is best known for her interpretations of Handel, Mozart and Rossini operas. Born into a Catholic family in Kansas, she was the second-youngest of seven children. Her love of music was awakened by watching her late father directing the local church choir. Her first ambition was to become a music teacher, but watching a televised performance of Don Giovanni during her third year at college ignited her interest in opera. After acceptance onto Houston Grand Opera's young artist programme, she overhauled her technique and went on to win second place in 1998's Operalia competition. Her first big role came in 2002 singing Rosina in The Barber of Seville in Paris and she made her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2005 at the age of 36. Since then her star has shone brightly and she has performed across the operatic spectrum, from contemporary works, such as Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking to Strauss and Handel. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Winner of two Grammy Awards, she is best known for her interpretations of Handel, Mozart and Rossini operas. Born into a Catholic family in Kansas, she was the second-youngest of seven children. Her love of music was awakened by watching her late father directing the local church choir. Her first ambition was to become a music teacher, but watching a televised performance of Don Giovanni during her third year at college ignited her interest in opera. After acceptance onto Houston Grand Opera's young artist programme, she overhauled her technique and went on to win second place in 1998's Operalia competition. Kirsty Young's castaway is the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Winner of two Grammy Awards, she is best known for her interpretations of Handel, Mozart and Rossini operas. Born into a Catholic family in Kansas, she was the second-youngest of seven children. Her love of music was awakened by watching her late father directing the local church choir. Her first ambition was to become a music teacher, but watching a televised performance of Don Giovanni during her third year at college ignited her interest in opera. After acceptance onto Houston Grand Opera's young artist programme, she overhauled her technique and went on to win second place in 1998's Operalia competition.
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| Jp Donleavy | 20070304 | 20070309 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer J P Donleavy. The author of a dozen novels as well as numerous plays and short stories, he remains best known for his first novel, The Ginger Man, which is widely regarded as a modern classic. Born in 1926 and raised in New York, J P Donleavy was the son of Irish immigrant parents. They told him little of Irish culture when he was growing up but, after the war, he moved to Dublin to take up a place at Trinity College. He was already a skilled boxer when he arrived in Ireland and found that street-fighting was almost a form of public entertainment in the city - and one which he excelled in. Despite Trinity's stature, his student life revolved around drinking, partying, writing and painting. He became friends with Brendan Behan and the legendary Irish writer became the first person to read the completed script of The Ginger Man. Although The Ginger Man was banned in Ireland and expurgated in Britain and America it became a word-of-mouth success. But its publication plunged J P Donleavy into a legal battle that took 20 years to resolve. It was a legal struggle, though, that was worth fighting for - for the past 50 years it has never been out of print. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 2nd movement of Emperor Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
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| Judith Kerr | 20040229 | 20040305 | This week Sue's castaway is writer and illustrator Judith Kerr known to generations of children both for her charming Mog picture books and for her careful rendering of the life of a Jewish child fleeing Nazi Germany. Judith Kerr escaped with her family on the day the Nazis were elected. The following day police turned up at the doorstep in a belated attempt confiscate their passports. The Kerr family moved across Europe trying to support themselves and escape from the nearing threat until they eventually settled in ENGLAND in 1936. The family stayed in LONDON throughout the war surviving the Blitz and in fear of invasion. Judith Kerr wrote an autobiographical trilogy about her experiences and the books, in particular When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, have been used ever since as a way of explaining to children the horrors of the Nazi threat - today they are set texts in many Germany schools. She was always a keen painter but had never thought it could be a career. It was only when she had two children who enjoyed the tales she told that she decided to try her hand at picture books. Her first book The Tiger Who Came to Tea was instantly successful when it was published in 1968 and has never been out of print. But it is probably her series of books about Mog the cat that have won her most affection with children. Over the past thirty years they have sold more than three million copies. This week Sue Lawley's castaway is Judith Kerr - a writer and illustrator known to generations of children both for her charming 'Mog' picture-books and for her careful rendering of the life of a Jewish child fleeing Nazi Germany. Judith Kerr escaped with her family on the day the Nazis were elected - the following day, police turned up at the doorstep in a belated attempt to confiscate their passports. Judith Kerr wrote an autobiographical trilogy about her experiences and the books - in particular ""When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit"" have been used ever since as a way of explaining to children the horrors of the Nazi threat - today they are set texts in many German schools. She was always a keen painter but had never thought it could be a career, it was only when she had two children who enjoyed the tales she told that she decided to try her hand at picture books. But it is probably her series of books about Mog the cat that have won her most affection with children - over the past thirty years they have sold more than three million copies. Judith Kerr escaped with her family on tDilemma 02 01 20130220 Sue Perkins sets moral and ethical posers for Paul Sinha, Lemn Sissay and Graeme Garden. Sue Perkins hosts a panel show in which guests are posed moral and ethical choices In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, where each panellist is given an indefensible action that they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, each one following on from the last as they burrow their way deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a swan?". This week's show sees comedian Paul Sinha struggling with his sporting loyalties; poet Lemn Sissay experiencing Something New; actor and comic Margaret Cabourn-Smith facing up to some poor parenting; and Graeme Garden contemplating life without one of his favourite Aunties. The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. Producer: Ed Morrish. In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, where each panellist is given an indefensible action that they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, each one following on from the last as they burrow their way deeper into a moral quagmire; and QuickDilemma |
| Judy Murray | 20140622 | 20140627 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Judy Murray. A tennis coach since she was 17, she's the current British captain of the Fed Cup, the premier team competition in women's tennis, and was herself at one time ranked 8th in Britain - achievements worth celebrating. But what she's best known for is being the ultimate tennis mum. Both her sons have reached the top flight of the game - one as Wimbledon mixed doubles champion, the other becoming the first Brit to win the men's singles in 77 years. In the moments after Andy Murray's heroic win on Centre Court last year it was to her he turned pumping his fists and roaring - as if to say 'we have done it'. Judy's many followers on social media know how she spends her time - countless hours travelling up and down the country coaching and working to inspire children to take up the game. She says, 'I've always been competitive. I'm like Andy, or maybe he's like me - I wear my heart on my sleeve. And when something is great, then yep, I am right into it'. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Judy Murray, captain of the British Fed Cup team and mother of Andy and Jamie Murray, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Julia Cleverdon | 20150118 | 20150123 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the campaigner, Dame Julia Cleverdon. As head of the charity, Business in the Community, she fine-tuned to perfection the art of persuasion. A phone call from her and many of the big beasts of the business world - the ""pinstripes"" she calls them - stride from their boardrooms intent on giving something back to society. Her energies and endeavours have powered countless corporate social responsibility programmes. In a life dedicated to public service, she has charmed not only chief executives but apparently royalty too - HRH the Prince of Wales is a long time supporter and collaborator. She seems keenly aware that not everyone has her good fortune of a first class education and top drawer connections - when she's not harrying the blue chip brigade, she's inspiring young people from all sorts of backgrounds to follow her example and get involved in social action. She says, ""one of the most important leadership roles is to grow people. It is very much like gardening. You tend them and apply fertiliser. But sometimes you have to prune them to make them grow stronger." Producer: Paula McGinley. 
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| Julia Donaldson | 20091115 | 20091120 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo is her best known creation. Published ten years ago, it's become a modern classic; it has sold more than four million copies, won an armful of awards and been turned into a film. But Julia nearly gave up when she was half way through writing it, and only the encouragement of her son persuaded her to continue. Its latest accolade is that BBC listeners have just voted it their favourite book for reading out loud at bedtime. The Gruffalo is her best known creation. Published ten years ago, it's become a modern classic; it has sold more than four million copies, won an armful of awards and been turned into a film. But Julia nearly gave up when she was half way through writing it, and only the encouragement of her son persuaded her to continue. Its latest accolade is that BBC listeners have just voted it their favourite book for reading out loud at bedtime. ![]()
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| Julia Samuel | 20150301 | 20150306 (R4) | Psychotherapist Julia Samuel is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the psychotherapist, Julia Samuel. Counsellor for Paediatrics at London's St Mary's hospital, Paddington, she works with parents whose children have died and children who've experienced loss themselves. She is a Vice President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, an Honorary Fellow of Imperial College and Founder Patron of The Child Bereavement Trust - now Child Bereavement UK. One of five children, she was born into the banking line of the Guinness family. She describes her childhood as rather old-fashioned - her governess was an important figure in her life. As a young woman she worked in Paris and then set up her own interior decorating business. But it was her work with the charity, Birthright that lead to her finding her vocation as a counsellor. In the late 1980s she met and became close friends with Princess Diana who was both a supporter of the Child Bereavement Trust and godmother to her son. Today Julia Samuel is one of Prince George's godparents. Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
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| Julian Clary | 20050925 | 20050930 | Sue Lawley invites the comedian Julian Clary to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Julian Clary brought camp out of the closet and into the TV mainstream. In the late eighties he burst onto television screens as The Joan Collins Fan Club, attracting a surprisingly broad audience with his extreme make-up and innuendo. Greeting his audience with the line ""I do like a warm hand on my entrance"", Julian's talent for delivering naughty jokes to a delighted studio audience ushered in a whole new era of camp comedy on television. The son of a policeman and a probation officer, Julian was born and brought up in Teddington and Surbiton, and as a child was deeply religious. But the brutalities of life at a Catholic school, and the church's stance on homosexuality have since caused him to take his prayers elsewhere, he says. He discovered his comic talent at Goldsmith's University in the late seventies where he and a friend created the duo Glad and May, two cleaning ladies with a passion for rummaging through the handbags of their hapless audience. In recent years, Julian has toned down the make-up and hung up his rubber suits in order to take on a new role: Julian Clary, family favourite and star of prime time. Where once he had cult status, he now has serious mainstream appeal, recently presenting the new National Lottery show on BBC ONE and reaching the final of Strictly Come Dancing. He lives in Camden and Brighton with his dog Valerie and cat Gloria. Julian Clary brought camp out of the closet and into the TV mainstream. In the late eighties he burst onto television screens as The Joan Collins Fan Club, attracting a surprisingly broad audience with his extreme make-up and innuendo. Greeting his audience with the line ""I do like a warm hand on my entrance"", Julian's talent for delivering naughty jokes to a delighted studio audience ushered in a whole new era of camp comedy on television. The son of a policeman and a probation officer, Julian was born and brought up in Teddington and Surbiton, and as a child was deeply religious. But the brutalities of life at a Catholic school, and the church's stance on homosexuality have since caused him to take his prayers elsewhere, he says. In recent years, Julian has toned down the make-up and hung up his rubber suits in order to take on a new role: Julian Clary, family favourite and star of prime time. Where once he had cult status, he now has serious mainstream appeal, recently presenting the new National Lottery show on BBC ONE and reaching the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley's castaway this week is comedian Julian Clary. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the comedian Julian Clary to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Evening |
| Julian Fellowes | 20111218 | 20111223 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes. He won an Oscar for his screenplay for Gosford Park and went on to write other feature films including The Young Victoria and Vanity Fair. Downton Abbey, which he created and writes, has been an enormous TV success with a huge audience. "Of course" he says, "if I had a clear understanding of why it had done so well, I would continue to write shows that attracted record viewers for the rest of my life." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Scriptwriter Julian Fellowes is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. He won an Oscar for his screenplay for Gosford Park and went on to write other feature films including The Young Victoria and Vanity Fair. Downton Abbey, which he created and writes, has been an enormous TV success with a huge audience. "Of course" he says, "if I had a clear understanding of why it had done so well, I would continue to write shows that attracted record viewers for the rest of my life." |
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| Julie Bentley | 20141207 | 20141212 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Chief Executive of the Guide Association, Julie Bentley - or, more accurately, Girlguiding. The name change is surely a clue to the evolving nature of an organisation determined to be relevant and useful to girls in the 21st century. Indeed being relevant and useful is how Julie Bentley has spent her entire working life. From her early efforts at an HIV charity to running the Family Planning Association she says her passion lies with helping young people develop confidence and direction. Never a Brownie or Girl Guide herself, she was brought up in what she describes as ""a happy working class family in Essex"" and it took her a little while to find her own self assurance and sense of purpose. A painfully shy child, who was bullied at primary school, she later went on to become Head Girl, but left school with very few qualifications. In her 30s she used a bequest from her mother to fund her Master's degree. She says of the Girl Guides, ""It is not about itchy brown uniforms and sewing and baking. It is a modern, contemporary, vibrant organisation." Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. Kirsty Young talks to Julie Bentley, CEO of Girlguiding. Kirsty Young talks to Julie Bentley, CEO of Girlguiding. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Chief Executive of the Guide Association, Julie Bentley - or, more accurately, Girlguiding. Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. |
| Julie Burchill | 20130210 | 20130215 | Kirsty Young's guest is the writer Julie Burchill. As a columnist and author she is a committed non-conformist - daring the world to take issue with her vociferous life and work and depending on whom you ask is either a 'Marxist critic' or 'a right wing columnist'. As a child she used to hide away when potential playmates came to call, at 17 she was writing for the NME and in the decades since she's plied her trade at The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail amongst others. She's also written twenty odd books and her autobiography is entitled ""I Knew I Was Right"". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews columnist and author Julie Burchill. Kirsty Young interviews columnist and author Julie Burchill. |
| Julie Goodyear | 20130317 | 20130322 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Julie Goodyear. For a quarter of a century her Coronation Street character Bet Lynch set the gold plated standard for big, brassy, back chatting blondes. Behind the bar of the Rovers Return her bosom swathed in leopard-print and her head piled high with platinum curls she was Manchester's answer to Mae West. Her MBE was awarded for her services to drama - and when she left the series in 1995, her departure pulled in 19 million viewers. Yet whatever the scriptwriters came up with it was never as dramatic as the life she's lived beyond The Street. She got pregnant at 17, her second husband abandoned her for their best man, and in 1979 she was diagnosed with cancer and told she'd a year to live. She's now married to her fourth husband. She says, ""If anyone should be interested in an epitaph for my life, I would like them to consider, 'At least she tried." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to former Coronation Street actress Julie Goodyear. Kirsty Young talks to former Coronation Street actress Julie Goodyear. |
| June Brown | 20170212 | 20170217 (R4) | June Brown is best known today for her role as the long-suffering chain-smoking Dot Cotton (now Dot Branning) in the BBC TV soap EastEnders. She arrived on a three month contract in 1985 and is still in the show. She was nominated for a BAFTA in 2008. She celebrates her 90th birthday in February 2017 and has no intention of retiring as acting "keeps her alive". June was born in Suffolk and brought up in a music-loving family. Towards the end of World War Two, she joined up, choosing the WRNS where she worked as a cinema operator showing training films and newsreels to the sailors. She did some acting during that time and after a brief and unsuccessful job in an office, she was one of very few chosen to receive a classical training at the Old Vic Theatre School. From there she joined the Old Vic Theatre Company where she worked with such greats as Edith Evans, Laurence Oliver and Albert Finney. Her roles included Lady Macbeth and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. She had five children in relatively quick succession and continued acting on TV and the London stage, often putting her youngest in a pram and going in the guard's van on the train to the theatre. Throughout her time on EastEnders she has occasionally ventured away to direct or take part in other television series. In 2009 she stripped down to nothing as Jessie in the stage production Calendar Girls. She was 82. She was awarded an MBE for services to drama and charity in 2008. Producer: Sarah Taylor. June Brown, actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young talks to actress June Brown. 
She celebrates her 90th birthday in February 2017 and has no intention of retiring as acting ""keeps her alive"". 
She celebrates her 90th birthday in February 2017 and has no intention of retiring as acting ""keeps her alive"".
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| June Spencer | 20100228 | 20100305 | Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. She is one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting. As Peggy Woolley in The Archers, she's the only original member of the cast still in the show. It's 60 years this spring since the pilot episodes were first broadcast and, although she is now aged 90, June has no plans to retire. She says, 'It's a great bonus for me that The Archers has run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.'. ![]()
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| June Spencer | 20100305 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. She is one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting. As Peggy Woolley in The Archers, she's the only original member of the cast still in the show. It's 60 years this spring since the pilot episodes were first broadcast and, although she is now aged 90, June has no plans to retire. She says, 'It's a great bonus for me that The Archers has run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.'. |
| Karan Billimoria | 20040613 | 20040618 | Sue Lawley talks to the businessman Karan Billimoria. Sue Lawley talks to the businessman Karan Billimoria. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Karl Jenkins | 20061210 | 20061215 | Composer Karl Jenkins. Kirsty Young talks to another castaway. Kirsty Young invites the composer Karl Jenkins to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young talks to another castaway. |
| Karren Brady | 20071230 | 20080104
20080104 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the businesswoman Karren Brady. She is known as the First Lady of Football - and it's a moniker that is well earned. When she became Managing Director of Birmingham City she was just 23 years old, the club was languishing in the second division and it was in dire financial straits. Fifteen years later, and it is in the Premier League and is one of the few clubs to turn a healthy profit. Along the way Karren has married one of her players, had two children and overcome a life-threatening brain condition. She has always, she says, relied on her enthusiasm, determination and strength of character to see her through. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Luxury: My own pillow. Kirsty Young's castaway is businesswoman Karren Brady. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites businesswoman Karren Brady to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites businesswoman Karren Brady to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News. |
| Kate Atkinson, Novelist | 20181125 | 20181130 (R4) | Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her 1995 debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has won the Costa Novel Award twice, for Life After Life in 2013 and for A God in Ruins two years later. Born in York in 1951, she was the only child of a couple who ran a medical and surgical supplies shop. She began to write after she had failed her doctorate at Dundee University and had given birth to two daughters. She took on a wide range of jobs while writing short stories for women's magazines, and did not publish her first book until she was in her early 40s. Her mid-career reinvention as a writer of detective fiction has seen her publish four novels starring her sleuth Jackson Brodie, with another one in the pipeline. She lives in Edinburgh, has two grown-up daughters, and two grandchildren. BOOK CHOICE: The Collected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickenson
LUXURY ITEM: A 500 year old, mature oak tree
FAVOURITE TRACK: Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Novelist Kate Atkinson is interviewed by Lauren Laverne Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Kathy Burke | 20100815 | 20100820 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and director Kathy Burke. She became a household name for her comedy performances, working with Harry Enfield to create the characters Kevin and Perry. She won critical acclaim for serious roles and picked up the Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of an abused wife in the film "Nil By Mouth". Her early life had been tumultuous - her mother died before she was two and her father was often drunk, leaving her older brother ran the family home. She was a teenager when she discovered acting and, she says, it was the saving of her. Producer: Leanne Buckle. She became a household name for her comedy performances, working with Harry Enfield to create the characters Kevin and Perry. She won critical acclaim for serious roles and picked up the Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of an abused wife in the film "Nil By Mouth". Her early life had been tumultuous - her mother died before she was two and her father was often drunk, leaving her older brother ran the family home. She was a teenager when she discovered acting and, she says, it was the saving of her. ![]()
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| Kathy Burke | 20100820 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and director Kathy Burke. She became a household name for her comedy performances, working with Harry Enfield to create the characters Kevin and Perry. She won critical acclaim for serious roles and picked up the Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal of an abused wife in the film "Nil By Mouth". Her early life had been tumultuous - her mother died before she was two and her father was often drunk, leaving her older brother ran the family home. She was a teenager when she discovered acting and, she says, it was the saving of her. Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Kay Mellor | 20171029 | 20171103 (R4) | Kay Mellor, OBE, is an English screenwriter and director best known for TV drama series including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and The Syndicate. She has won a Bafta award, along with numerous nominations, and she received a Royal Television Society Fellowship in 2016. She has also worked as an actress, and has written for the stage. Kay was born in Leeds and has lived there all her life. It's also the home of her production company. Her highly successful career now seems worlds away from her early life, when she became pregnant and got married at the age of 16, curtailing her dreams of going to drama school. Later, whilst enjoying motherhood, she decided to return to education, studying for a degree in drama at Bretton Hall College. Upon graduation, she worked in theatre, then at Granada TV as a scriptwriter on Coronation Street before embarking on her own prolific writing career for TV and theatre. She celebrates her Golden Wedding anniversary later this year. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kay Mellor, writer and producer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Kay Mellor | 20171103 | | , writer and producer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Kay Mellor, OBE, is an English screenwriter and director best known for TV drama series including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and The Syndicate. She has won a Bafta award, along with numerous nominations, and she received a Royal Television Society Fellowship in 2016. She has also worked as an actress, and has written for the stage. Kay was born in Leeds and has lived there all her life. It's also the home of her production company. Her highly successful career now seems worlds away from her early life, when she became pregnant and got married at the age of 16, curtailing her dreams of going to drama school. Later, whilst enjoying motherhood, she decided to return to education, studying for a degree in drama at Bretton Hall College. Upon graduation, she worked in theatre, then at Granada TV as a scriptwriter on Coronation Street before embarking on her own prolific writing career for TV and theatre. She celebrates her Golden Wedding anniversary later this year. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Keith Richards | 20151025 | 20151030 (R4) |  , member of the Rolling Stones, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Keith was born in Dartford and grew up as an only child. He and Mick Jagger went to the same primary school, but then lost touch until meeting again at Dartford train station in 1961 and discovering they shared a taste in blues music. Keith picked up his love of the guitar from his grandfather and honed his skills whilst at art college. If one single, living person could be said to personify rock n' roll then it is surely him. He's been making music and causing havoc for over half a century and counting. His song writing, singing and guitar playing have helped to make The Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful group and his early and single minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and drugs and rock and roll made him a counter-culture icon. No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
, guitarist, song writer and member of the Rolling Stones is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Keith Richards, member of the Rolling Stones, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. If one single, living person could be said to personify rock n' roll then it is surely him. He's been making music and causing havoc for over half a century and counting. His song writing, singing and guitar playing have helped to make The Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful group and his early and single minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and drugs and rock and roll made him a counter-culture icon. No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar. Keith Richards, guitarist, song writer and member of the Rolling Stones is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| Kelsey Grammer | 20171210 | 20171215 (R4) | Kelsey Grammer is best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane which began on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He continued the role in the hugely successful spin-off series Frasier which ran for 11 years. When the series ended in 2004, it had won a total of 35 Emmys. Born in the Virgin Islands, he was brought up by his mother and maternal grandparents in Florida, after his parents divorced. He studied drama at the Julliard School in New York but left before the end of the second year. He got his big break when he joined the cast of Cheers in 1984. In his personal life Grammer has experienced a great deal of loss - his much-loved grandfather died when he was 12 and his 18 year old sister was murdered when he was 20. His struggles with drink and drugs, now behind him, are well documented. Married four times, he is the father of seven. The winner of multiple awards, he is also a TV producer, director, writer, and known for his voice work: among others he was Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons and Stinky Pete in Toy Story 2. He is currently on stage in London. Presenter Kirsty Young
Producer Cathy Drysdale. Kelsey Grammer, star of Frasier, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Presenter Kirsty Young
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| Kim Cattrall | 20050225 | | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the actress Kim Cattrall. She chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's guest this week is the actress Kim Cattrall. She chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. |
| Kimberley Motley, Lawyer | 20191115 | 20191229 (R4) | Kimberley Motley is an American attorney and the first foreign lawyer to practise in Afghanistan. Born in 1975 to an African-American father and a North Korean mother, she grew up in a poor neighbourhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where hers was the only mixed-race family - and the only family with two parents. Education was very important to her parents, who sent their four children to private schools and also paid for extra tutoring. After completing degrees in Criminal Justice and Law, Kimberley spent five years working as a Public Defender before taking up the opportunity in 2008 to go to Afghanistan for a year to train local lawyers. Her husband, Claude, stayed in the US to take care of their three children. When her one-year contract in Afghanistan came to an end, she decided to stay and started her own private legal practice. Initially she only took on foreign clients, but once she had familiarised herself with the intricacies of local laws and customs, she accepted her first Afghan client. She has gone on to build a thriving practice, with a 70-30% ratio of paid to pro-bono work. Her practice now extends to other parts of the world including Uganda, Ghana and the UAE and earlier this year she published a book about her working life. DISC ONE: Will Smith - A Nightmare on My Street
DISC TWO: Elton John - I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues
DISC THREE: LL Cool J - I'm Bad
DISC FOUR: KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
DISC FIVE: Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris - Dance Wiv Me
DISC SIX: Ed Sheeran - I See Fire
DISC SEVEN: The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It
DISC EIGHT: Kendrick Lamar - DNA BOOK CHOICE: 1984 by George Orwell
LUXURY ITEM: Business card holder with photo of her children
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Pump It by Black Eyed Peas Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Kimberley Motley, lawyer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Kwame Kwei-armah | 20110515 | 20110520 | The actor, playwright and director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, director and playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah. His creative output spans both high art and popular culture. He became a household name starring in BBC One's Casualty, but at the same time he was pursuing a career in writing and his award-winning plays have been staged at the National Theatre. He's just finished a stint as the artistic director of The World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal and his next posting is to the US, where he's taking over a theatre in Baltimore. Throughout his life, he says, he continues to be inspired by the joyful atmosphere he grew up in. "My home was so warm, so full of life and noise. Most of my theatre I call the theatre of my front room. My memory was just this citadel to love and joy." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs. |
| Kwame Kwei-armah | 20110520 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, director and playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah. His creative output spans both high art and popular culture. He became a household name starring in BBC One's Casualty, but at the same time he was pursuing a career in writing and his award-winning plays have been staged at the National Theatre. He's just finished a stint as the artistic director of The World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal and his next posting is to the US, where he's taking over a theatre in Baltimore. Throughout his life, he says, he continues to be inspired by the joyful atmosphere he grew up in. "My home was so warm, so full of life and noise. Most of my theatre I call the theatre of my front room. My memory was just this citadel to love and joy." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs |
| Kylie Minogue | 20151213 | 20151218 (R4) |  Kylie Minogue is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue. With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artist in Britain and has sold around 70 million records worldwide. Born in Melbourne in 1968, Kylie and her sister Dannii began their careers as child actors on Australian television. At 17, Kylie landed the role of Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours and her on-screen wedding to Jason Donovan's character Scott Robinson was watched by twenty million people in the UK alone. Her recording career began after she was spotted singing at a charity event in 1987. Within months she had released a cover version of ""Locomotion"" which became the biggest-selling Australian single of the decade. Following the single's success, her first hit with record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman was ""I Should Be So Lucky"": her debut album sold seven million copies. At the age of 21, a romance with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence led to a change in her image. In 2000, inspired by 1970s disco and assisted by gold hot pants, her single ""Spinning Around"" became her first British number one for a decade. She also sang to an estimated global audience of 3.7 billion at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. In May 2005 she was diagnosed with breast cancer: following treatment she resumed the tour 18 months later. Kylie Minogue is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Lady Natasha Spender | 20070107 | 20080127 (R4)
20080201 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Lady Natasha Spender. She was born at the end of the First World War and has spent her life immersed in the arts. Gifted with perfect pitch, she studied under Clifford Curzon and enjoyed a highly successful career as a concert pianist. In the months after the end of the Second World War she gave a concert at Belsen to inmates who were recovering in its hospital wing and, a couple of years later, she was chosen to be the soloist in the world's first ever televised concert for the BBC. She was also one half of a cultural 'it' couple - for more than 50 years she was married to the poet Sir Stephen Spender. They had met at a literary lunch he was hosting and became friends after Natasha stayed behind to help him with the washing up. They were friends with many of the greats of the past century, including T S Eliot, Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. She is now the executor to Sir Stephen's very considerable estate and is writing her own memoirs. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 1st movement of String Quintet in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Book: Desert Islands: An Anthology by Walter de la Mare
Luxury: Her grand piano. Kirsty Young's castaway is pianist Natasha Spender. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young invites the former classical pianist and widow of Sir Stephen Spender, Lady Spender, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the former classical pianist and widow of Sir Stephen Spender, Lady Spender, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the former classical pianist and widow of Sir Stephen Spender, Lady Spender, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Lang Lang | 20101031 | 20101105 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Chinese pianist Lang Lang. He was five years old when he gave his first public recital in front of an audience of 800 people. It was a pivotal moment and from that point on it was clear where his future lay. His parents were both musical too but, during the cultural revolution, had not been able to pursue their own ambitions. Lang Lang was born under the one-child rule and so he was, he says, their only chance. Their aim was that he should become the No.1 pianist in China and in the years that followed, family life was sacrificed to that end. Still only 28 years old, he is a phenomenon in the classical music world - he played to a global audience of four and a half billion people for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and, when he returns to China, he says he is mobbed in the streets. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Chinese pianist Lang Lang joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: The Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 played by Vladimir Horowitz Book: The Analects of Confucius. Luxury: Two feathered pillows. He was five years old when he gave his first public recital in front of an audience of 800 people. It was a pivotal moment and from that point on it was clear where his future lay. His parents were both musical too but, during the cultural revolution, had not been able to pursue their own ambitions. Lang Lang was born under the one-child rule and so he was, he says, their only chance. Their aim was that he should become the No.1 pianist in China and in the years that followed, family life was sacrificed to that end. |
| Lang Lang | 20101105 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Chinese pianist Lang Lang. He was five years old when he gave his first public recital in front of an audience of 800 people. It was a pivotal moment and from that point on it was clear where his future lay. His parents were both musical too but, during the cultural revolution, had not been able to pursue their own ambitions. Lang Lang was born under the one-child rule and so he was, he says, their only chance. Their aim was that he should become the No.1 pianist in China and in the years that followed, family life was sacrificed to that end. Still only 28 years old, he is a phenomenon in the classical music world - he played to a global audience of four and a half billion people for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and, when he returns to China, he says he is mobbed in the streets. Producer: Leanne Buckle Record: The Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 played by Vladimir Horowitz Book: The Analects of Confucius. Luxury: Two feathered pillows. Chinese pianist Lang Lang joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Book: The Analects of Confucius. |
| Laurence Marks And Maurice Gran | 20150927 | 20151002 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaways this week are the comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. They've been at the rock-face, mining for laughs, for over 40 years and they've given us plenty of gems... amongst them monologues in the '70s for Frankie Howerd, the era-defining character Alan B'Stard MP, star of The New Statesman, and now the successful revival of their long running and much loved sitcom ""Birds of a Feather"". Grammar school boys from North London they first met as ten year olds at a youth club, growing up to have 'real jobs' in the civil service and journalism, before finally embarking on the precarious business of making a living from putting words into other people' mouths. Producer: Sarah Taylor. They've been at the rockface, mining for laughs, for over 40 years and they've given us plenty of gems... among them monologues in the 70s for Frankie Howerd, the era defining character Alan B'Stard MP star of The New Statesman, and now the successful revival of their long running and much loved sitcom ""Birds of Feather"". Grammar school boys from North London they first met as ten year olds at a Jewish youth club growing up to have 'real jobs' in the civil service and journalism before finally embarking on the precarious business of making a living from putting words into other people' mouths. 
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20110225 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio. He was capped 85 times for England, played in three Lions tours and led his club side, Wasps, to the top of the premiership five times. Yet, he says, he only started playing rugby seriously after the death of his sister, Francesca. She died in the Marchioness disaster on the Thames when he was 16 and her death, he says, blew his world apart. "Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more determined to do something to bring my parents together. When I first took up rugby, I took it up not for sporting reasons, I needed something to grab onto, I needed an olive branch." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Lawrence Dallaglio joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Yet, he says, he only started playing rugby seriously after the death of his sister, Francesca. She died in the Marchioness disaster on the Thames when he was 16 and her death, he says, blew his world apart. Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more determined to do something to bring my parents together. When I first took up rugby, I took it up not for sporting reasons, I needed something to grab onto, I needed an olive branch." 
"Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more determined to do something to bring my parents together. When I first took up rugby, I took it up not for sporting reasons, I needed something to grab onto, I needed an olive branch." Lawrence Dallaglio joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Yet, he says, he only started playing rugby seriously after the death of his sister, Francesca. She died in the Marchioness disaster on the Thames when he was 16 and her death, he says, blew his world apart. Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more determined to do something to bring my parents together. When I first took up rugby, I took it up not for sporting reasons, I needed something to grab onto, I needed an olive branch."" Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Lawrence Dallaglio joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
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| Lee Mack | 20130929 | 20131004 | Kirsty Young interviews the comedian Lee Mack. He writes and stars in the BBC One hit show ""Not Going Out"". His stand-up tours do great business and his lightening sharp comedy reflexes are also put to good use on a number of prime-time panel shows. His first ever performance was doing impressions for his school mates, but it took him more than ten years to pluck up the courage to step on stage. Leaving school with two O'levels and a cheeky grin, he had a stint as Red Rum's stable boy and a bash at being a professional darts player. He says of his comedy career ""I'm the kind of person that, if I don't think it's hard work, I worry that it's not worthwhile. I have to feel as if I've struggled a bit." Producer: Isabel Sargent. |
| Lemn Sissay | 20151011 | 20151016 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to writer, poet and playwright Lemn Sissay. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Lemn Sissay. As a poet, writer and playwright, much of his work tells the story of his search for his birth parents. Born to a young Ethiopian woman who wanted him temporarily fostered while she completed her studies, he was with a family until he was 12. He would spend the next five years in a number of children's homes where he began to write. On leaving care at 17, he self-published his first book of poetry while on the dole. Several poetry collections, plays and programmes for radio and TV followed and his work has taken him around the world. He was the first poet to be commissioned to write for the 2012 London Olympics and his success has also brought him two doctorates and an MBE for services to literature. He is about to be installed as Chancellor of the University of Manchester, an elected post he will hold for the next seven years. He takes writers' workshops for care-leavers and set up Culture World, the first black writers' workshop. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Lemn Sissay, writer, poet and playwright, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Lemn Sissay, writer, poet & playwright, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs As a poet, writer and playwright, much of his work tells the story of his search for his birth parents. Born to a young Ethiopian woman who wanted him temporarily fostered while she completed her studies, he was with a family until he was 12. He would spend the next five years in a number of children's homes where he began to write. On leaving care at 17, he self-published his first book of poetry while on the dole. , writer, poet and playwright, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Len Goodman | 20110619 | 20110624 | Head judge on Strictly Come Dancing Len Goodman joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the international dance judge, Len Goodman. He became a star of Strictly Come Dancing and the US show Dancing with the Stars, after a forty year career as a ballroom dancer and judge. Born in London's east end, as a kid he was a barrow-boy, selling fruit and veg on his grandfather's stall. He went on to work on the docks as a welder. But come Saturday night he would don his best threads and head for the Embassy ballroom in Welling. He was in his sixties when he found international fame and it was, he says, perfect timing. "If it had happened when I was thirty, I'd have been one these people that would be seen rolling out of nightclubs drunk, with a couple of dolly-birds on my arm. The pilot was on my sixtieth birthday and I think it was the perfect age because I was sensible by then, my feet were planted firmly on the ground." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Dance judge Len Goodman joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Len Goodman | 20110624 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the international dance judge, Len Goodman. He became a star of Strictly Come Dancing and the US show Dancing with the Stars, after a forty year career as a ballroom dancer and judge. Born in London's east end, as a kid he was a barrow-boy, selling fruit and veg on his grandfather's stall. He went on to work on the docks as a welder. But come Saturday night he would don his best threads and head for the Embassy ballroom in Welling. He was in his sixties when he found international fame and it was, he says, perfect timing. "If it had happened when I was thirty, I'd have been one these people that would be seen rolling out of nightclubs drunk, with a couple of dolly-birds on my arm. The pilot was on my sixtieth birthday and I think it was the perfect age because I was sensible by then, my feet were planted firmly on the ground." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Dance judge Len Goodman joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Levi Roots | 20160717 | 20160722 (R4) | Levi Roots, entrepreneur, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur, Levi Roots. His business success began following an appearance on BBC Two's Dragon's Den in 2007. With guitar in hand, he sang about his 'Reggae reggae sauce' which he had been selling for years at London's Notting Hill Carnival. Both Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh invested in the business and within six weeks, his sauce was bottled and on supermarket shelves. Recipe books, TV shows and a restaurant, or 'rastaurant' followed. He is the youngest of five children born in Jamaica. When he was four, his parents went to build a new life in the UK. Each year one of his siblings came to |