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| | 19930129 | Percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Sue Lawley. |
| | 19930205 | Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr talks to Sue Lawley. |
| 19930122 | | Travel writer Dervla Murphy talks to Sue Lawley. |
| 19930124 | | Percussionist Evelyn Glennie talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| 19930131 | | Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr talks to Sue Lawley. Producer Olivia Seligman. |
| 20040418 | 20040423 | 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 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] |
| 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 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] |
| 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 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 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] |
| 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 |
| 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. 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 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] |
| 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. 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 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] |
| 20051106 | 20051111 | 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 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] |
| 20051120 | 20051125 | 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 Sue Lawley invites the philosopher Mary Midgley to choose eight records to take to a mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| 20051211 | 20051216 | 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] |
| 20060101 | 20060106 | 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 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] |
| 20060205 | 20060210 | 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 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] |
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening 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] |
| 20060219 | 20060224 | 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 Sue Lawley invites screenwriter Frederic Raphael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060226 | 20060303 | 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 Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060305 | 20060310 | 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 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] |
| 20060312 | 20060317 | 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 Sue Lawley invites actor Terence Stamp to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| 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] |
| 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 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 |
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| 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] |
| 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 |
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| 20060618 | | Sue Lawley invites physicist Peter Mansfield to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] 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] |
| 20060709 | 20060714 | 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] Sue Lawley invites gardener Monty Don to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060716 | 20060721 | crime writer Ian Rankin |
| 20060723 | 20060728 | 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] 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] |
| 20060730 | 20060804 | 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] Sue Lawley invites playwright David Edgar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20060806 | 20060811 | 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] 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] |
| 20060813 | 20060818 | 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] 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] |
| 20060820 | 20060825 | 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] 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] |
| 20061008 | 20061013 | 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] Kirsty Young invites actress Jane Horrocks to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 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. 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] |
| 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. |
| 20061203 | 20061208 | Kirsty Young invites impresario Raymond Gubbay to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites impresario Raymond Gubbay to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| 20061217 | 20061222 | 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 | presenter Gloria Hunniford. Kirsty Young invites presenter Gloria Hunniford to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20061231 | 20070105 | writer Anthony Horowitz Kirsty Young's castaway is writer Anthony Horowitz. |
| 20070107 | | 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. |
| 20070114 | 20070119 | author Edna O'brien Kirsty Young invites author Edna O'Brien to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070128 | 20070202 | writer Brian Aldiss Kirsty Young invites writer Brian Aldiss to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070211 | 20070216 | TV writer Paul Abbott Kirsty Young invites TV writer Paul Abbott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070225 | 20070302 | 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. |
| 20070304 | 20070309 | writer JP Donleavy. Kirsty Young invites writer JP Donleavy to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070311 | 20070316 | 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. |
| 20070401 | 20070406 | 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 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. |
| 20070603 | 20070608 | 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 Kirsty Young talks to Yoko Ono, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070617 | 20070622 | 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. |
| 20070624 | 20070629 | comedian Ricky Gervais Kirsty Young invites comedian Ricky Gervais to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070701 | | Kirsty Young invites Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070708 | 20070713 | Kirsty Young invites actor Simon Russell Beale Kirsty Young invites actor Simon Russell Beale to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070715 | 20070720 | Kirsty Young invites Oliver Postgate, animator and creator of Bagpuss, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070722 | 20070727 | author Thomas Keneally. Kirsty Young invites author Thomas Keneally to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20070729 | 20070803 | Kirsty Young invites former city high-flyer Nicola Horlick to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News |
| 20070805 | 20070810 | screenwriter Andrew Davies. Kirsty Young invites screenwriter Andrew Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News |
| 20070812 | 20070817 | publisher Felix Dennis 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. Followed by News |
| 20070930 | 20071005 | Kirsty Young invites George Michael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071007 | 20071012 | Kirsty Young invites Health Secretary Alan Johnson to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071014 | 20071019 | actress Jill Balcon Kirsty Young invites actress Jill Balcon to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. 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. |
| 20071104 | 20071109 | Kirsty Young invites Nicholas Parsons to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News |
| 20071116 | | Kirsty Young invites Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans. |
| 20071118 | 20071123 | Kirsty Young invites former MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071125 | 20071130 | Kirsty Young invites American author Armistead Maupin to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Followed by News |
| 20071202 | 20071207 | Kirsty Young invites cellist Steven Isserlis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071209 | 20071214 | Kirsty Young invites genetic scientist Alec Jeffreys to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071216 | 20071221 | Kirsty Young invites rock star Paul Weller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20071223 | 20071228 | Kirsty Young invites Victoria Wood to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. 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. |
| 20071230 | 20080104 | Kirsty Young invites businesswoman Karren Brady to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080106 | 20080111 | John Humphrys |
| 20080113 | 20080118 | Kirsty Young invites conductor Simon Rattle to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080120 | 20080125 | Kirsty Young invites former diplomat Rory Stewart 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. |
| 20080203 | 20080208 | Kirsty Young invites author Beryl Bainbridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080210 | 20080215 | Kirsty Young invites former KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080217 | 20080222 | Kirsty Young invites Prof Martin Evans, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080224 | 20080229 | Kirsty Young invites broadcaster David Dimbleby to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080302 | 20080307 | singer Michael Ball 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. |
| 20080316 | 20080321 | Kirsty Young invites writer Tariq Ali to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 20080323 | 20080328 | cartoonist Stanley McMurty. 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. |
| 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. 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 20080627 | | 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. |
| 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. |
| 20080711 | | Kirsty Young invites cook and food writer Antonio Carluccio to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 20080815 | | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. 
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| 20181116 | | A castaway guest shares the soundtrack of their lives. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| 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. |
| 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. Brenda was awarded an OBE in 2003, and lives in London and Broadstairs with her longterm partner Michael Mayhew, a theatre designer. 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] |
| 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. |
| Mark Tully | 20040725 | | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the veteran broadcaster Mark Tully. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
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| 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 | | Kirsty Young introduces some gems from the archive. 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. |
| 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) | , stage and screenwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. , stage and screenwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Alex Crawford | 20160110 | 20160115 (R4) | 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. Alex Crawford, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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 | , 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) | , writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. 
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." |
| 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.". |
| 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. 
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| 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 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. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Amanda Levete, architect, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
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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. |
| 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 | | , chef, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. |
| Ann Daniels | 20070121 | 20070126 | polar explorer Ann Daniels. Kirsty Young invites polar explorer Ann Daniels to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 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. |
| 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 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) | , actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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
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| Annie Lennox | 20080511 | 20080516 | Kirsty Young invites singer Annie Lennox to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 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. 
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| 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. 
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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. |
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| 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. |
| Arlene Phillips | 20090703 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the choreographer, Arlene Phillips. |
| 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. |
| 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. 
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| 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. |
| 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. 
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| Aung San Suu Kyi | 20130127 | 20130201 | , 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. 
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| 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. |
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| 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 , designer and creator of Biba, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| 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 Haleh Afshar | 20081228 | | Kirsty Young invites the academic Baroness Haleh Afshar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Baroness Haleh Afshar | 20090102 | | 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. |
| 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. |
| Baroness Newlove | 20180722 | 20180727 (R4) | Baroness Newlove is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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
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| Baroness Scotland | 20091206 | 20091211 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. |
| Baroness Scotland | 20091211 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. |
| Barrie Rutter | 20160619 | | 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 
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| Barry Humphries | 20090529 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| Barry Manilow | 20091002 | | 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'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 |
| Berry Gordy | 20160522 | 20160527 (R4) | 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. Kirsty Young interviews Berry Gordy, record producer and creator of the Motown label. 
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| 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. 
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| 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. |
| Biddy Baxter | 20140601 | 20140606 | , 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.". Biddy Baxter, former Blue Peter editor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Bill Gates | 20160131 | 20160205 (R4) | 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. |
| Billie Jean King | 20180715 | | Billie Jean King is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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 | 20180715 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Billie Jean King | 20180715 | 20180720 (R4) | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| Bruce Springsteen | 20161218 | 20161223 (R4) | 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. Bruce Springsteen is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Bruno Tonioli | 20171224 | | , Strictly judge, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
| Bryan Stevenson | 20150308 | 20150313 (R4) | 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. Kirsty Young talks to US lawyer Bryan Stevenson. 
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| Bryn Terfel | 20030921 | | 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. |
| 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. 
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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. |
| 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. |
| Caroline, Countess Of Cranbrook | 20090605 | | 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. , businesswoman and CEO of easyJet, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Cath Kidston | 20110424 | 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. 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. |
| 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?'" |
| Celia Imrie | 20110218 | | Actress Celia Imrie joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. |
| 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 | | 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. |
| Chi-chi Nwanoku | | | 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. |
| Chi-chi Nwanoku | 20180211 | | Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. 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 Packham | 20131013 | 20131018 | Kirsty Young talks to naturalist, TV presenter and author Chris Packham. Kirsty Young interviews Chris Packham, naturalist, TV presenter and author. 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. |
| Christiane Amanpour | 20161002 | 20161007 (R4) | 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, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Christiane Amanpour, journalist and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
, journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. , journalist and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Christina Lamb | 20180121 | | , journalist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. |
| Christine Mcvie | 20171217 | 20171222 (R4) | , musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. , musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. |
| 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 | | | 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 | 20180218 | | 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. , film director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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. |
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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) | 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. 
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| 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. 
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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 Label EMI 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: Pensées, 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 |
| 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. |
| 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." Producer: Isabel Sargent. 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. 
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Dame Ellen Macarthur | 20091009 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. |
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| 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. |
| Dame Fanny Waterman | 20100709 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman. |
| 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. |
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| Dame Joan Bakewell | 20090814 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. |
| 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.'. |
| 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. 
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| Dame Minouche Shafik | | | 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 | 20180225 | | 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. , economist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| 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, Director of the Royal Ballet, is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| Dame Stephanie Shirley | 20100528 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley. |
| 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'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. Kirsty Young interviews architect Dame Zaha Hadid. 
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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. |
| 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. 
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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. 
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| Danielle de Niese | 20180916 | 20180921 (R4) | Danielle de Niese, opera singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Danielle de Niese | 20180916 | | Danielle de Niese, opera singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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
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| Danielle De Niese | 20180916 | 20180921 (R4) | Danielle de Niese, opera singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. , opera singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to 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. |
| David Baddiel | 20180527 | 20180601 (R4) | , comedian and writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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 |
| David Beckham | 20170129 | 20170203 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to former professional footballer David Beckham. 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. 
is Kirsty Young's guest as Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th Anniversary. |
| David Byrne | 20180318 | 20180323 (R4) | , musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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
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| David Davis | 20081116 | 20081121 | 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. |
| 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. |
| David Mitchell | 20090724 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian David Mitchell. |
| David Nott | 20160605 | 20160610 (R4) | , 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 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. 
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| David Tennant | 20100101 | | 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. |
| Davina Mccall | 20161211 | 20161216 (R4) | , TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Sarah Taylor. Davina McCall, TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Davina McCall 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. 
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. |
| 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 talks to composer Debbie Wiseman. 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | | , 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Doug Allan | 20140720 | 20140725 | , wildlife cameraman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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! |
| 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.". 
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| Dr Dame Sue Ion | 20160306 | 20160311 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the nuclear engineer and scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. 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. 
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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.". |
| 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. |
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| 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 Robert Langer | 20161016 | 20161021 (R4) | 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. Dr Robert Langer, scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
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| Dr Sue Black | 20180520 | 20180525 (R4) | , computer scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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 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 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
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| 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.'. |
| 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 |
| Ed Sheeran | 20170507 | | , 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. Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Ed Sheeran | 20170512 | | , 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. Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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. Ceramic artist Edmund de Waal is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Edna Adan Ismail | 20171022 | | 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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| Elif Shafak | 20170528 | | , writer, 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, 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. |
| Emma Bridgewater | 20161127 | 20161202 (R4) | , pottery designer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 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. 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. 
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. |
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| 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. |
| Emma Thompson | 20100402 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress and writer Emma Thompson. |
| 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 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. |
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| 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.". |
| 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. |
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| Francesca Simon | 20111111 | | Children's author Francesca Simon is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | 20100321 | 20100326 | 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.'. |
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | 20100326 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. |
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| 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".". |
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| 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. 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. |
| 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) | , choirmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Paula McGinley. Gareth Malone, choirmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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. 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.". 
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 | | , chess grandmaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 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
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| 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 DistelUnknown: 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 RobertsonUnknown: 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 RobertsonUnknown: 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 SachsUnknown: 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 DoonicanUnknown: 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. RossProduced 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 BaxterUnknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: Stanley Baxter |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700202] | | | Stanley Baxter , actor and impressionist, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Stanley BaxterUnknown: 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 GodfreyUnknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700209] | | | Isidore Godfrey , conductor with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Conductor: Isidore GodfreyUnknown: 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 GillardUnknown: Roy Plomi. Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700216] | | | Frank Gillard , former Managing Director of BBC Radio, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Frank GillardUnknown: 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 PlomleyProduced By: Ronald Cook |
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| 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 BaillieUnknown: 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 ChamberlainUnknown: Roy Plomley Unknown: Richard Chamberlain Unknown: Ralph Touchett |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700316] | | | Richard Chamberlain , actor, With ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: Richard ChamberlainUnknown: 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 HashmanUnknown: 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 PlomleyUnknown: 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 RussellUnknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700406] | | | Sheridan Russell , cellist and social worker, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Sheridan RussellUnknown: 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 GuylerUnknown: 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 GuylerUnknown: 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 LockhartUnknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700420] | | | -James Lockhart , Director of Music, Welsh National Opera Company, with ROY PLOMLEY Contributors Unknown: James LockhartUnknown: 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 BeerUnknown: 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 CignaUnknown: 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 Unknown: Carol Channing |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700511] | | | Carol Channing , Broadway musical comedy star, with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Carol ChanningUnknown: 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 UsherUnknown: 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 UsherUnknown: 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 StewartUnknown: 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 MichellUnknown: 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 DickensUnknown: 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 PlomleyProduced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700615] | | | Barbara Windsor with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: Barbara WindsorUnknown: 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 HaendelUnknown: 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 SassoonUnknown: 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-JohnstonUnknown: 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 CartlandUnknown: 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 PiperUnknown: 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 PiperUnknown: 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 HammondUnknown: 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 PlomleyProduced 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 DavisUnknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700810] | | | David Davis , broadcaster with ROY PLOMLEY 12.55 Weather; programme news Contributors Unknown: David DavisUnknown: 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 LeinsdorfUnknown: Roy Plomley |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19700817] | | | Erich Leinsdorf , conductor with ROY PLOMLEY % 12.55 Weather; programmenews Contributors Conductor: Erich LeinsdorfUnknown: 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 EmeryUnknown: Roy Plomley Produced By: Ronald Cook Unknown: Dick Emery 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 PollockUnknown: 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 WattsUnknown: 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 WattsUnknown: 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 HerbertUnknown: 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 HerbertUnknown: 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 CarpenterUnknown: 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 TubbUnknown: 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 RedgraveUnknown: 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 BarabasUnknown: 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 WhittingtonUnknown: 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 TauskyUnknown: 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 PowellUnknown: 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 HughesUnknown: 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 Unknown: Diana Rigg |
| 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 HerbertUnknown: 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 LoweUnknown: 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 MaugerUnknown: 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 MaugerProduced 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 PooleUnknown: 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=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] | | | Stereo |
| 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 GoodmanProducer: 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 HallUnknown: 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 HallUnknown: 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 EnoProducer: 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 DahrendorfProducer: 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 AshdownProducer: 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 EyreUnknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910224] | | | Talks: Richard Eyre Unknown: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910301] | | | |
| 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 FormanProducer: 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 CaineProducer: 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 LawleyProducer: 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 SacksProducer: 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 PorterProducer: 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 RogersUnknown: 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 SimpsonProducer: 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 SmithProducer: 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 WhiteProducer: 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 WalcottProducer: 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 HegartyTalks: 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 HegartyTalks: 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 ToddProducer: 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 ThawUnknown: 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 AnnanUnknown: 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 KeaneProducer: 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 MilesProducer: 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 LawleyProducer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910818] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19910823] | | | Lawyer Lord Goodman talks to Sue Lawley. Stereo Contributors Talks: Lord GoodmanUnknown: 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 BleasdaleProducer: 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 HutchinsonProducer: 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 RubensProducer: 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 BanhamProducer: 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 TennstedtProducer: 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 BaileyProducer: 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 KhanProducer: 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 SchlesingerProducer: 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-CollTalks: 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-CollTalks: 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 LovelockProducer: 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 DibnahProducer: 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 TownsendProducer: 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 MoleUnknown: 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 KayeProducer: 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 LewisProducer: 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] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930122] | | | Talks: Dervla Murphy |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930124] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930124] | | | Talks: Evelyn Glennie Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930129] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930129] | | | Talks: Evelyn Glennie |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930131] | | | |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930131] | | | Talks: Dr Anthony Storr Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Genome: [r4 Bd=19930205] | | | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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] |
| 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. 
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| Gillian Reynolds | 20180603 | | Gillian Reynolds, radio critic, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
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| Gloria Steinem | 20160320 | 20160325 (R4) | 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. 
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| 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. |
| 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 | potter Grayson Perry Kirsty Young invites potter Grayson Perry to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Greg Dyke | 20070520 | 20070525 | 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'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 talks to film-maker, writer and producer Gurinder Chadha. 
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| Guy Garvey | 20140803 | 20140808 | , 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". 
Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert island Discs. Kirsty Young talks to Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow. |
| Guy Singh-watson | 20180701 | 20180706 (R4) | Guy Singh-Watson, farmer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. , farmer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
| 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. |
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| 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.". |
| 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. 
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| Harvey Goldsmith | 20090710 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Helen Browning, farmer and CEO of the Soil Association, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
, farmer and CEO of the Soil Association, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Henry Blofeld | 20031130 | 20031207 | Sue Lawley's castaway is cricket commentator Henry Blofeld |
| 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 | | Kirsty Young interviews Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon and writer. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Henry Marsh | 20180923 | 20180928 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon and writer. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Henry Marsh | 20180923 | 20180928 (R4) | Kirsty Young interviews Henry Marsh, neurosurgeon and writer. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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 Guests choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island. |
| Heston Blumenthal | 20061029 | 20061103 | 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. 1. 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 Publisher 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. |
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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'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. 
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| Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall * | 20090726 | 20090731 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Famous for making pâté 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 Café 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. |
| Hugh Laurie | 20130623 | 20130628 | 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. , actor and musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
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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. |
| Ian Bostridge | 20081026 | 20081031 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 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 interviews the poet Imtiaz Dharker. 
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| Inga Beale | 20160515 | 20160520 (R4) | 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. 
Kirsty Young interviews Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd's of London. |
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| 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 |
| 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 | | , comedian and actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 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
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| Jackie Kay | 20161023 | 20161028 (R4) | 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. 
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| Jackie Mason | 20120311 | 20120316 | American comedian Jackie Mason is the latest castaway interviewed by Kirsty Young 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. |
| Jackie Mason | 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. |
| Jacqueline Gold | 20181028 | | Jacqueline Gold, business woman, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Jacqueline Gold | 20181028 | 20181102 (R4) | 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. |
| James Corden | 20120217 | | , 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 James Corden is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
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| James Ellroy | 20100117 | 20100122 | Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the 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. 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 |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Jan Pienkowski | 20091023 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. |
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| 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 , 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. |
| Janet Street-porter | 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. |
| 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] |
| 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 | , 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 | | , writer and director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Jed Mercurio | 20170623 | | , 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. Jed Mercurio, writer and director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| Jerry Springer | 20091106 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Jerry Springer. |
| Jilly Cooper | 20160731 | 20160805 (R4) | 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) | , comedian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
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. 
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| Jimmy Mulville | 20100801 | 20100806 | 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. |
| Jimmy Mulville | 20100806 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedy producer, writer and actor Jimmy Mulville. |
| Jimmy Tarbuck | 20040111 | 20040116 | Sue Lawley invites the entertainer Jimmy Tarbuck to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| 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 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. 
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| 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 |
| 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 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. 
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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. 
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| John Copley | 20100108 | | 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 | | | 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
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| John Gray | 20180311 | 20180316 (R4) | Philosopher and writer John Gray is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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. |
| 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 | | , tennis player, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| John Mcenroe | 20170721 | | , 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) | , broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. 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
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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. |
| John Timpson | 20160327 | 20160401 (R4) | 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. 
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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. |
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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. 
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| Jonathan Agnew | 20130217 | 20130222 | 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 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. |
| 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) | 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. Joyce DiDonato is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
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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. |
| 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. |
| Julia Donaldson | 20091120 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia Donaldson. |
| 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] |
| 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." |
| Julian Fellowes | 20111223 | | Scriptwriter Julian Fellowes is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| June Brown | 20170212 | 20170217 (R4) | Kirsty Young talks to actress June Brown.
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. 
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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.'. |
| June Spencer | 20100305 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. |
| 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. |
| 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 | | , writer and producer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| 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
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| 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. Keith Richards, guitarist, song writer and member of the Rolling Stones is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
, guitarist, song writer and member of the Rolling Stones is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Kelsey Grammer | 20171210 | | , star of Frasier, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 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
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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. |
| Kwame Kwei-armah | 20110515 | 20110520 | The actor, playwright and director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs. 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) | 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. 
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| 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. |
| 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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| Lawrence Dallaglio | 20110220 | 20110225
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 | 20110225 | | joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| 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) | , writer, poet and playwright, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 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. Kirsty Young talks to writer, poet and playwright Lemn Sissay. 
Lemn Sissay, 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. 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) | 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 join the family in Britain. When Levi was 10, he left his much loved grandmother behind, never to see her again. Unable to read or write when he started school, he caught up quickly. He became a Rastafarian as a teenager. Following school, he became an apprentice engineer but left that to pursue a career in music. In his late twenties, he went to prison for five years. His time inside would prove to be a turning point for him. Music continued to play an important part in his life and he was nominated for a Best Reggae Act MOBO award in 1998. A father of eight, he lives in Brixton, London. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Levi Roots, entrepreneur, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Lewis Gilbert | 20100620 | 20100625 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the film director Lewis Gilbert. His career started in the 1920s when he was a child actor in silent movies. Over the next seven decades, he went on to direct Hollywood blockbusters as well as landmark British films. His directing credits include Reach for the Skies, Alfie, Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine - as well as three Bond films. Depite his numerous successes, though, he remains haunted by the film he didn't make: he spent years working with Lionel Bart and planning how Oliver! might look... only for the project to slip through his fingers. Producer: Leanne Buckle 
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| Lily Allen | 20140629 | 20140704 | 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the singer-songwriter Lily Allen. Less than a decade ago she dipped her toe in musical waters by releasing her demos on social media, this summer she's one of the headline acts at Glastonbury. It's 29 years since she first appeared at the festival; back then she was a new-born being carried through the crowd in swaddling. Indeed, she was as good as baptised at the font of celebrity culture - her dad, Keith, is an actor and writer, her mum, Alison, is an award-winning film producer - for a time her step-dad was Harry Enfield. So, it seems almost inevitable that she's ended up at the centre of a media-saturated life. Except that in all likelihood she would have been propelled there entirely by her own endeavours: her lyrics are witty and wise-ass and capture concisely what it is to be a savvy, young woman today. She says, "the only thing I can do really is write lyrics and the only way I know how to do that is by being honest and doing it with integrity because otherwise there's no point". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Lisa Jardine | 20150607 | 20150612 (R4) | Professor Lisa Jardine, academic, biographer and public thinker, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Historian, biographer, public thinker, mathematician - her proclivities are wide ranging and well regarded with prize winning books on subjects as diverse as Sir Christopher Wren, Seventeenth century Holland, Erasmus and women in the time of Shakespeare. Her current day job is leading the Department of Renaissance Studies at University College London, she's also a prolific writer and broadcaster. If that all seems a little ivory tower for your tastes think again; as Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for many years she was at the sharp end of the complex conundrums and high emotion that surround the artificial creation of life, leading the world in developing the legal framework that governs IVF treatment. Her rigour and originality, then, are greatly admired and both seem to have been in evidence since the beginning - her schoolgirl contemporaries had pictures of Elvis by their beds. Lisa had other ideas, as a teenager she gazed lovingly at a photo of a brilliant mathematician. She says: "I only do things I love, and I love everything I do..." Producer: Sarah Taylor. Professor Lisa Jardine, academic and biographer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. 
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| Liz Lochhead | 20170514 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and poet Liz Lochhead. She was the Makar, the Scottish national poet, between 2011 and 2016. Liz was born in Motherwell, not far from Glasgow, in 1947. She was always drawing at school and so decided to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where she didn't enjoy the drawing, but did start writing. After winning a poetry competition, she started performing her poems at readings in Scotland. She published her first pamphlet of poetry, Memo for Spring, in 1972, after a publisher heard her at a reading. After her second volume of poetry was published in 1978 and she won the first Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange Fellowship which took her to Toronto for a year, she was able to give up her job as an art teacher and start writing full time. From the early 1980s, she started writing plays as well as poetry, and has also adapted classic Greek and French plays for the stage. She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Liz Lochhead is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Liz Lochhead | 20170519 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and poet Liz Lochhead. She was the Makar, the Scottish national poet, between 2011 and 2016. Liz was born in Motherwell, not far from Glasgow, in 1947. She was always drawing at school and so decided to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where she didn't enjoy the drawing, but did start writing. After winning a poetry competition, she started performing her poems at readings in Scotland. She published her first pamphlet of poetry, Memo for Spring, in 1972, after a publisher heard her at a reading. After her second volume of poetry was published in 1978 and she won the first Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange Fellowship which took her to Toronto for a year, she was able to give up her job as an art teacher and start writing full time. From the early 1980s, she started writing plays as well as poetry, and has also adapted classic Greek and French plays for the stage. She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2015. Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Lord Brian Rix | 20090301 | 20090306 | Kirsty Young invites Lord Brian Rix, actor and President of Mencap, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Lord Brian Rix to choose eight records. |
| Lord Brian Rix | 20090306 | | Kirsty Young invites Lord Brian Rix to choose eight records. |
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| Lord Coe | 20091218 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising committee. |
| Lord Coe * * | 20091213 | 20091218 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe. It is more than a quarter of a century since his rivalry with fellow middle-distance runner Steve Ovett enraptured the nation. After retiring from the racetrack, he enjoyed a career in politics. Now, though, his focus is on the Olympics once again - not on individual medals this time, but ensuring the 2012 games in London are a success. Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising committee. |
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| Lord David Cobbold | 20100808 | 20100813 | Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lord David Cobbold. He was just 32 years old when he took over the ancestral pile Knebworth House and he succeeded in turning a crumbling corner of the establishment into one of the best rock concert venues in the world. Over the past forty years, everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul Mccartney to Robbie Williams has played there. The concerts have not only allowed him to keep the house in private hands, but have also given him a front-row seat to some of the most celebrated performances in rock history. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord David Cobbold, founder of the Knebworth rock festivals. He was just 32 years old when he took over the ancestral pile Knebworth House and he succeeded in turning a crumbling corner of the establishment into one of the best rock concert venues in the world. Over the past forty years, everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul McCartney to Robbie Williams has played there. The concerts have not only allowed him to keep the house in private hands, but have also given him a front-row seat to some of the most celebrated performances in rock history. |
| Lord David Cobbold | 20100813 | | Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lord David Cobbold. He was just 32 years old when he took over the ancestral pile Knebworth House and he succeeded in turning a crumbling corner of the establishment into one of the best rock concert venues in the world. Over the past forty years, everyone from Led Zeppelin to Paul McCartney to Robbie Williams has played there. The concerts have not only allowed him to keep the house in private hands, but have also given him a front-row seat to some of the most celebrated performances in rock history. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord David Cobbold, founder of the Knebworth rock festivals. |
| Lord Healey | 20090614 | 20090619 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Labour peer and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. As a politician he was known for his sharp intellect and biting oratory and now, as he approaches his 92nd birthday, those skills are still very much in evidence. He talks of his regret that his lack of ambition meant that he did not push himself further in politics but, he says, it is better for people to wonder why he wasn't prime minister than to wonder why he was. Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Healey. |
| Lord Indarjit Singh | 20151113 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and religious leader, Lord Indarjit Singh. Creator of The Sikh Messenger newspaper and co-founder of the Inter Faith Network he also has the distinction of being the first member of the House of Lords to wear a turban. He was appointed as a crossbench life peer in 2011. He has contributed to Radio 4's Thought for the Day from a Sikh perspective for more than thirty years and arrived in Britain in 1933. He began his career as a mining engineer and in later life has been involved in inter-faith community work. In the New Year Honours 2009 he was awarded the CBE for services to inter-faith and community relations. Producer: Sarah Taylor.
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| Lord Prescott | 20120219 | 20120224 | The former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. In this frank interview, he describes life in the highly political home where he grew up, the impact that failing the school 11+ exam had on him and the gradual kindling of his own ambitions. He speaks of his debt to his wife Pauline and how for many years of their marriage he underestimated her. He describes, too, the inferiority complex which dogged him for much of his adult life: "All the attacks on me because of my grammar and kind of background, aggressive style - it used to ruff up a few feathers and whilst I would never let it show, certainly deep inside me I felt a bit inferior." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Lord Prescott | 20120224 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. In this frank interview, he describes life in the highly political home where he grew up, the impact that failing the school 11+ exam had on him and the gradual kindling of his own ambitions. He speaks of his debt to his wife Pauline and how for many years of their marriage he underestimated her. He describes, too, the inferiority complex which dogged him for much of his adult life: "All the attacks on me because of my grammar and kind of background, aggressive style - it used to ruff up a few feathers and whilst I would never let it show, certainly deep inside me I felt a bit inferior." Producer: Leanne Buckle. The former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Lord Richards Of Herstmonceux | 20140309 | 20140314 | Kirsty Young talks to Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, former Chief of the Defence Staff. 
Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, former Chief of the Defence Staff, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. He was a soldier for 42 years, rising through the ranks to the very top becoming the principal military advisor to government. Shrewd, swashbuckling and outspoken, he is now retired from one of the most successful military careers of modern times: so illustrious he's been knighted twice. The campaigns he led in East Timor, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan are well documented and most recently his counsel against military intervention in both Libya and Syria helped guide the Government through the most complex of international strategic defence decision-making. He is possibly less well known for his private passions - tennis, skiing, sailing and the action man credentials must surely be further boosted by the fact that he once spent an evening as Joan Collin's bodyguard. He's also partial to a spot of karaoke. Born in Egypt into a military family he grew up with some understanding of the very particular strain that comes with a life in the forces. Just as well because in 35 years of marriage he and his wife have moved home 29 times. He says: "I see myself as a moral soldier. I do not associate the military with wars and bloodshed in the narrow sense. I associate the military with doing good, bringing down tyrants, with releasing people's ambitions for their children." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Lord Victor Adebowale | 20111030 | 20111104 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the crossbench peer and social entrepreneur Lord Victor Adebowale. For the past decade, when not in the House of Lords, he has devoted his time to overseeing services for people who are homeless, suffer from drug or alcohol addiction and have mental health issues or learning disabilities. To many, they are the most disadvantaged people in society, but he says that's not a term he finds useful: "I find it very difficult when people use words like 'bottom of the pile' and 'disadvantaged' - you'd be amazed that the veneer that separates people who don't think they're at the bottom of the pile from people who are is quite thin." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Lord Victor Adebowale is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. For the past decade, when not in the House of Lords, he has devoted his time to overseeing services for people who are homeless, suffer from drug or alcohol addiction and have mental health issues or learning disabilities. To many, they are the most disadvantaged people in society, but he says that's not a term he finds useful: "I find it very difficult when people use words like 'bottom of the pile' and 'disadvantaged' - you'd be amazed that the veneer that separates people who don't think they're at the bottom of the pile from people who are is quite thin." |
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| Lynn Barber | 20100725 | 20100730 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the interviewer Lynn Barber. A master of the profile interview, her razor-sharp observations have earned her the nickname the Demon Barber and won her a stack of awards. Although critics say her articles are hatchet jobs, she disagrees: "I think that people are well served by quite blunt or quite rude questions because it forces them to fight back and come back strongly," she says. Producer: Leanne Buckle. A master of the profile interview, her razor-sharp observations have earned her the nickname the Demon Barber and won her a stack of awards. Although critics say her articles are hatchet jobs, she disagrees: "I think that people are well served by quite blunt or quite rude questions because it forces them to fight back and come back strongly," she says. |
| Lynn Barber | 20100730 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the interviewer Lynn Barber. |
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| Maggie Aderin-pocock | 20100307 | 20100312 | class="blq-clearfix"> Kirsty Young's castaway is space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock. She has, she says, a special relationship with the moon, one that started when she first saw The Clangers as a small child. As a teenager she made her own telescope so she could study the moon more closely. Now she makes highly technical optical equipment for satellites, but says she still harbours desires to go into space - her dream job is building a telescope on the moon. She says: 'From the age of three, I wanted to get into space and I still do. It's been the driving force of my life really, that desire to get out there one day.'. |
| Maggie Aderin-pocock | 20100312 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock. |
| Mairi Hedderwick | 20140302 | 20140307 | Kirsty Young talks to author and illustrator Mairi Hedderwick. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author and illustrator Mairi Hedderwick. Her most famous creation is a little red-haired character called Katie Morag who - in wellies and a kilt - has skipped her way through fourteen books and a 26-part TV series. Katie lives on the imaginary Isle of Struay with her parents, siblings, cousins, granny and prize-winning sheep Alecina. Like her creator she relishes the rhythms and freedoms particular to life on a wee Scottish island. But that's where the similarities end - the author was born and brought up an only child on the mainland of the lowlands. She lost her father when she was just twelve and says she was never part of a close-knit family. As a grown-up, all she wanted was to quit the rat race and be an island crofter, but after a decade she left her dream behind in favour of a more stable income and a secondary school for her children. She says, "I have a notion that children's writers explore unresolved questions in their own childhoods. I certainly do." Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. |
| Malcolm Gladwell | 20140810 | 20140815 | The writer Malcolm Gladwell is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Always concise, frequently counterintuitive and unexpectedly beguiling, his work orders the world in a way that gives fresh insights into human behaviour. He believes that a knowledge of people's backgrounds is necessary to understanding their success; his own achievements may presumably then be attributed, not just to his keen mind and polished prose, but also to his parents - an English mathematician and a Jamaican psychotherapist. He says, "I am the bird attached to the top of a very large beast, pecking away and eating the gnats.... I am someone who draws inspiration from the brilliance of others and repackages it... I am a populariser, a simplifier and a synthesizer." Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
Malcolm Gladwell, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. To read his work is to experience the sense that after years of bumbling about short-sightedly in the human experience one has suddenly put on a pair of perfectly intellectually focused spectacles. Always concise, frequently counterintuitive and unexpectedly beguiling his work orders the world in such a way as to make previously opaque patterns of human behaviour vividly illuminating. He believes that only by understanding people's backgrounds can we unravel the logic behind their success; his own achievements can presumably then be attributed not just to his keen mind and polished prose but also to the concerned cultivation of his parents - an English mathematician and a Jamaican psychotherapist. |
| Malorie Blackman | 20131117 | 20131122 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Malorie Blackman. A prolific and multi-award winning author she has powered her way to success not just through talent but determination and perseverance. From the careers mistress who told her, "black people don't become teachers," to the 82 rejection letters she received before she was published, significant parts of her life seem to have been spent proving people wrong. A technology wiz, her first career was in computing. As a writer her books have tackled challenging themes: bullying, teenage pregnancy, racism and terrorism. Currently Children's Laureate, her own formative years were spent in South London where as a little girl she went from thinking everyone was her friend to feeling, as a teenager, that the world was her enemy. She says, "Good stories made me reassess the world and people as I thought I knew them. Great stories made me reassess myself." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to author and children's laureate Malorie Blackman. |
| Marco Pierre White | 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 WhiteProducer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Marcus Du Sautoy | 20081212 | 20081207 | Kirsty Young invites professor of mathematics and broadcaster Marcus Du Sautoy to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Prof Marcus Du Sautoy to choose eight records. |
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20120608 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Margaret Rhodes. As the first cousin to the Queen, she has a unique insight into the life of the royal family. She used to spend her summer holidays at Balmoral with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret while, during the war, she worked for MI6 and lodged at Buckingham Palace. She attended the Queen's wedding and coronation and, in later life, worked as an assistant to the Queen Mother. Remembering the Queen's coronation, she says: "We had only just recovered from six or seven years of deprivation and blackouts and rationing - it was like the sun suddenly coming out behind a lot of very dark clouds and I think everybody felt that with a new young Queen, a whole new era was opening up. It was somehow exciting." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young interviews Margaret Rhodes, former MI6 worker and first cousin to the Queen. |
| Marian Keyes | 20170312 | 20170317 (R4) | , writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Marian Keyes. Her twelve novels to date have sold 35 million copies and are published in 33 languages. Some of her novels have been adapted for the screen. She has also published three volumes of journalism. Marian was born the eldest of five children in Ireland in 1963. While she was academically successful at school, she says she wasn't taught to think for herself, which left her ill prepared for university where she studied law. After completing her degree, but failing to get apprenticed to a law firm in Dublin, she moved to London. She spent her twenties working as a waitress, and began drinking heavily. She went into rehab for her alcoholism when she was 30. Her fortunes changed once she was sober: she sent some short stories she had written the previous year off to a publisher and had her debut novel published in 1995. Marian has described each of her books as "a comedy about something serious" and says they are a reflection of who she is: "I'm very bleak, really melancholic. But I've always used humour as a survival mechanism. I write for me and I need to feel hopeful about the human condition. So no way I'm going to write a downbeat ending. And it isn't entirely ludicrous to suggest that sometimes things might work out for the best." Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
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| Marianne Elliott | 20180729 | | Marianne Elliott, theatre director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Marianne Elliott | 20180729 | 20180803 (R4) | Marianne Elliott, theatre director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Marin Alsop | 20140928 | 20141003 | Kirsty Young talks to conductor Marin Alsop. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the conductor, Marin Alsop. Music Director of both The Baltimore Symphony and The Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, she is a maestro with a mission: music, she believes, is a powerful vehicle for social change. She had the good fortune to be brought up in "a household that exuded possibility" and was filled with music - both her parents played professionally. She took up the piano aged two, swapped to the violin at 6 and then aged 9, saw Leonard Bernstein at work and made the decision that conducting would be her career. Much later she would go on to be mentored by the man who inspired her. It bores her when interviewers ask why there aren't more women conductors - nonetheless her capacity to maximise the few opportunities she was given as a young woman making her way in an exclusively mans' world gives one a flavour of her indomitability. Her day-to-day job after all is working out how to convince 100 experts to do what she wants. She says, "maybe it's being an only child: you want to bring people together and create this big family feeling, I don't know what it is but I always gravitated towards organising." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Marjorie Wallace | 20151101 | 20151106 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the mental health campaigner and Chief Executive of SANE, Marjorie Wallace. After leaving University College London with a psychology and philosophy degree, her first job in the media was working on The Frost Programme with David Frost. She went on to produce religious programmes and became a current affairs reporter and director for the BBC. She joined the Sunday Times Insight team as an investigative journalist and wrote a series of articles highlighting the financial and emotional plight of young Thalidomide victims. Her articles on mental illness - The Forgotten Illness - elicited a huge public response and in 1986 she founded the mental health charity SANE. She has received numerous awards for her journalism and books and has twice won the Campaigning Journalist of the Year award. In December 2008 she was awarded the CBE for services to mental health. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kirsty Young talks to mental health campaigner and journalist Marjorie Wallace. 
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| Mark Gatiss | 20111023 | 20111028 | Writer and actor Mark Gatiss is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and actor Mark Gatiss. His childhood passions have fuelled his adult creative life. As a boy he says he was drawn towards the macabre and gothic - while his teachers remarked that his school essays resembled scripts for Hammer horror films. He has written for - and acted in - Dr Who, was one of the creators of The League of Gentlemen and his re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes for a contemporary TV audience was a huge success. He says: "When I was a kid, anything supernatural drew me, I would try and find it in anything - Gardeners' Question Time - I would look for something." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young interviews writer and actor Mark Gatiss. |
| Mark Gatiss | 20111028 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and actor Mark Gatiss. His childhood passions have fuelled his adult creative life. As a boy he says he was drawn towards the macabre and gothic - while his teachers remarked that his school essays resembled scripts for Hammer horror films. He has written for - and acted in - Dr Who, was one of the creators of The League of Gentlemen and his re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes for a contemporary TV audience was a huge success. He says: "When I was a kid, anything supernatural drew me, I would try and find it in anything - Gardeners' Question Time - I would look for something." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Kirsty Young interviews writer and actor Mark Gatiss. |
| Mark Rylance | 20150215 | 20150220 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Mark Rylance. Born in Kent and brought up in America where his father was a teacher, Mark played Hamlet for the first time while he was still at school. Since then he has become particularly well known for his acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean stage roles. He won an Olivier and a Tony award for his portrayal of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron in Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem' onstage in both Britain and the United States. He has also appeared in a number of film roles, was the first artistic director of The Globe Theatre - a post he held for a decade - and his portrayal of Thomas Cromwell in the BBC Television adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has now brought him to a wider audience. Producer: Isabel Sargent. 
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| Martha Lane Fox | 20040104 | 20040109 | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the dot-com millionaire and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. She says that as a child she was confident and bossy - tormenting her younger brother and, in games of teachers and pupils, always marking him lower than her line of teddy bears. Her drive and ambition were recognised at school and college - her brother claims her nickname was "Fast Lane Foxy". After studying modern and classical history at OXFORD University she became a management consultant at a small company and met Brent Hoberman - whose brainchild lastminute.com was. Initially, Lane Fox rubbished the idea, but eventually Brent convinced her and she joined him, appropriately enough, at the last minute. The pair launched lastminute.com in 1998 - it started out as an on-line bucket shop - selling the holidays that small travel agents couldn't get rid of - and branched out into entertainment and gifts. On March 14, 2000, days before the markets peaked, lastminute.com was floated on the stock exchange - and over the following weeks prices collapsed. Martha Lane Fox became the face, the figurehead and eventually the fall-girl for the dot-com bubble. In November 2003, after lastminute.com announced a profit for the first time, Lane Fox announced she was resigning as managing director. |
| Martin Carthy | 20130113 | 20130118 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Martin Carthy. A highly influential figure in the world of traditional music, about fifty years ago he was at the forefront of the English folk revival - inspiring not just his fellow countrymen, but Bob Dylan and Paul Simon too. Now he's part of a folk dynasty. His wife is the celebrated singer Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza is as renowned for her fiddle playing, as she is her voice. Martin, on the other hand, was brought up in an atmosphere that encouraged him to rise above his station - there was music in his Anglo-Irish background, but it wasn't encouraged and rarely if ever talked about. He says, "In my opinion there is no such thing as bad music. There may be bad players or bad singers but I don't like the idea of inferior music". The producer was Isabel Sargent. 
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| Martin Clunes | 20110918 | 20110923 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Clunes. He's graduated from being one of the "Men Behaving Badly" to a stint at The National theatre and a second career as an enthusiastic documentary presenter. It's not a career he takes too seriously though, he says: "Of course it takes some work, and there is a skill and a craft to it, but we are all monkeys in the zoo - you can go and look at the Judi Dench monkey or you can look at the Martin Clunes monkey or the Ricky Gervais monkey if you want a bit of this or a bit of that and people stroll past us and dwell or not." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor and presenter Martin Clunes joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. He's graduated from being one of the "Men Behaving Badly" to a stint at The National theatre and a second career as an enthusiastic documentary presenter. It's not a career he takes too seriously though, he says: "Of course it takes some work, and there is a skill and a craft to it, but we are all monkeys in the zoo - you can go and look at the Judi Dench monkey or you can look at the Martin Clunes monkey or the Ricky Gervais monkey if you want a bit of this or a bit of that and people stroll past us and dwell or not." |
| Martin Clunes | 20110923 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Clunes. He's graduated from being one of the "Men Behaving Badly" to a stint at The National theatre and a second career as an enthusiastic documentary presenter. It's not a career he takes too seriously though, he says: "Of course it takes some work, and there is a skill and a craft to it, but we are all monkeys in the zoo - you can go and look at the Judi Dench monkey or you can look at the Martin Clunes monkey or the Ricky Gervais monkey if you want a bit of this or a bit of that and people stroll past us and dwell or not." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor and presenter Martin Clunes joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
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| Martin Shaw | 20090626 | | Kirsty Young invites actor Martin Shaw to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Martin Shaw * | 20090621 | 20090626 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw. He has been one of Britain's most popular stage and television actors of the past forty years and has taken on more than a hundred different roles. Yet Martin has spent half a lifetime moving out of the shadow of one of his earliest parts: Ray Doyle in The Professionals. Kirsty Young invites actor Martin Shaw to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Martin Sheen | 20110403 | 20110408 | Actor Martin Sheen joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen. In recent years he has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely successful political drama The West Wing. He's made more than a 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his children - Emilio Estevez. But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he says by faith and conscience above politics. Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Martin Sheen | 20110408 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen. In recent years he has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely successful political drama The West Wing. He's made more than a 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his children - Emilio Estevez. But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he says by faith and conscience above politics. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor Martin Sheen joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Martin Sorrell | 20111204 | 20111209 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman Sir Martin Sorrell. He's been called "the world's most influential ad man," and is the founder and chief executive of the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP. He was 40 when he left Saatchi and Saatchi to be his own boss, he says: "When I started off, what I wanted to do was to build a company and manage it - I wanted to be an entrepreneur and be a manager." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Sir Martin Sorrell is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Martin Sorrell | 20111209 | | Sir Martin Sorrell is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Martina Cole | 20180624 | 20180629 (R4) | Martina Cole, novelist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Martina Cole is a British crime writer, known to her fans as the Queen of Crime. Martina has written 24 novels, 15 of which have topped the original fiction sales charts - more than any other author. She has sold more than 16 million books around the world, and her work has been translated into 29 languages. She also works in prisons, leading reading schemes and writing workshops for prisoners. Martina grew up in Essex, the youngest of five children born to Irish parents. She was expelled from her convent school at 15 for reading a book by Harold Robbins. She married at 16, divorced at 17 and then had a baby at the age of 18. She wrote stories and scripts in her spare time to amuse herself, whilst taking on a series of low-paid jobs, including cleaning, waitressing, stacking shelves and leafletting. At the age of 31, she re-discovered one of her early attempts at a novel, and decided to send it to an agent. She chose Darley Anderson from the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook because she liked the sound of the name. He quickly contacted her and told her she would be a star. He was right: she received an advance of £150,000, then a record for a first time novelist. She has written a best-selling crime novel almost every year ever since. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Martina Cole | 20180624 | 20180629 (R4) | Martina Cole, novelist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Martina Cole is a British crime writer, known to her fans as the Queen of Crime. Martina has written 24 novels, 15 of which have topped the original fiction sales charts - more than any other author. She has sold more than 16 million books around the world, and her work has been translated into 29 languages. She also works in prisons, leading reading schemes and writing workshops for prisoners. Martina grew up in Essex, the youngest of five children born to Irish parents. She was expelled from her convent school at 15 for reading a book by Harold Robbins. She married at 16, divorced at 17 and then had a baby at the age of 18. She wrote stories and scripts in her spare time to amuse herself, whilst taking on a series of low-paid jobs, including cleaning, waitressing, stacking shelves and leafletting. At the age of 31, she re-discovered one of her early attempts at a novel, and decided to send it to an agent. She chose Darley Anderson from the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook because she liked the sound of the name. He quickly contacted her and told her she would be a star. He was right: she received an advance of £150,000, then a record for a first time novelist. She has written a best-selling crime novel almost every year ever since. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Martina Navratilova | 20120708 | 20120713 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the legendary tennis player, Martina Navratilova. In an extraordinary career she's won 59 Grand Slam titles - her last just a few weeks short of her fiftieth birthday. Her life off the court has been equally eventful - she grew up in communist Czechoslovakia and, as a teenager, threw rocks as Soviet tanks rolled in; tennis offered a way to see the world and she defected to the US when she was 18 years old. After thirty years at the top of her profession she retired - and says she finally found time for the rest of her life: "Tennis really was a total commitment, you didn't have much time for anything else. So, when I quit, I was going through something emotionally that most people go through when they're 18, 20 years old. Really having the time for personal relationships, developing friendships and taking the time with everybody. I think I've caught up by now." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is interviewed by Kirsty Young |
| Mary Beard | 20100131 | 20100205 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard. A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular books, blog, articles and reviews have led to her being called 'Britain's best-known classicist'. But while her research is steeped in the ancient world, her commentary is all about the here and now. The classical world speaks to us, she says, and makes us see our own world differently. Kirsty Young's castaway is the Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular books, blog, articles and reviews have led to her being called 'Britain's best-known classicist'. But while her research is steeped in the ancient world, her commentary is all about the here and now. The classical world speaks to us, she says, and makes us see our own world differently. Record: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bob Dylan Book: Treasures of the British Museum - Marjorie Caygill Luxury: The Elgin Marbles. 
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| Mary Beard | 20100205 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Cambridge Professor of Classics, Mary Beard. |
| Mary Berry | 20120729 | 20120803 | is one of the UK's best-known and respected cookery writers. More than six million copies of her books have now been sold - not bad for a girl who failed her school certificate in English. On television, it is her role as a judge on The Great British Bake-off that has brought her to the attention of a new generation. It was in domestic science lessons that she discovered her love of cooking and she is in no doubt of the importance of teaching cookery in school "When everybody leaves school, whether they are a boy or a girl, what do they have to do in the home? They have to produce a meal. They haven't been taught to do it. I think it should be essential." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Cook and broadcaster Mary Berry is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Mary Berry is one of the UK's best-known and respected cookery writers. More than six million copies of her books have now been sold - not bad for a girl who failed her school certificate in English. |
| Mary Portas | 20100110 | 20100115 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the retail expert Mary Portas. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Portas. She's made an art-form out of turning heads, and her galleries have been the enormous plate-glass windows of Harrods, Topshop and Harvey Nichols. These days she brings retail therapy to small traders, helping them to hold their own against the high street's big names. Record: Casta Diva from Norma Book: The works of Rumi, Persian poet and philosopher Luxury: 'A set of different fragrances from the people I love'. 
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| Mary Portas | 20100115 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the retail expert Mary Portas. |
| Mary Portas * * | 20100110 | 20100115 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Portas. She's made an art-form out of turning heads, and her galleries have been the enormous plate-glass windows of Harrods, Topshop and Harvey Nichols. These days she brings retail therapy to small traders, helping them to hold their own against the high street's big names. Kirsty Young's castaway is the retail expert Mary Portas. |
| Mary Robinson | 20130728 | 20130802 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and ex-UN Commissioner for Human Rights. Her professional life has been defined by public service at the very highest level and she appears the epitome of the cool-headed pragmatist. And yet she is also something of an enigma: a committed Catholic who fought hard to legalise contraception and divorce; an elected head of state with both a noble bearing and a common touch. As a lawyer she lead from the front championing controversial causes at home in Ireland and fiercely defending human rights at the UN. She also has a habit of making history - she was Ireland's first female president and the first Irish Head of state to meet Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. She says of her life and work "over the years I have given many talks and taken part in many discussions on leadership: women's leadership, political leadership, business leadership, grass roots leadership. But the element of leadership that really fascinates me is moral leadership." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Matt Lucas | 20061126 | 20061201 | Kirsty Young invites comedian Matt Lucas to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites comedian Matt Lucas to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] |
| Matt Smith | | | Matt Smith is best known as the eleventh Timelord in the BBC One series, Doctor Who. At 26, he became the youngest actor to take the part. His future looked set to be in football: he played at youth level for Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City until a serious back condition ended his highly promising career prematurely. His drama teacher encouraged him to take up acting and he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at the University of East Anglia. He played Lockwood in the National Theatre's touring production of The History Boys and was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award for his performance in Polly Stenham's That Face. He also appeared as a political researcher in the BBC Two parliamentary drama, Party Animals. Despite being a surprise choice to play The Doctor in 2009, he became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA television award for his performance in this role, and has won two National Television Awards. When he left Doctor Who at the end of 2013, he appeared on stage as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: The Musical. In 2016 he took the part of HRH Prince Philip Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh, in the Netflix series The Crown, and received great acclaim, leaving the role at the end of the second series in late 2017. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Matt Smith | 20180304 | 20180309 (R4) | , actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Matt Smith is best known as the eleventh Timelord in the BBC One series, Doctor Who. At 26, he became the youngest actor to take the part. His future looked set to be in football: he played at youth level for Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City until a serious back condition ended his highly promising career prematurely. His drama teacher encouraged him to take up acting and he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at the University of East Anglia. He played Lockwood in the National Theatre's touring production of The History Boys and was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award for his performance in Polly Stenham's That Face. He also appeared as a political researcher in the BBC Two parliamentary drama, Party Animals. Despite being a surprise choice to play The Doctor in 2009, he became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA television award for his performance in this role, and has won two National Television Awards. When he left Doctor Who at the end of 2013, he appeared on stage as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: The Musical. In 2016 he took the part of HRH Prince Philip Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh, in the Netflix series The Crown, and received great acclaim, leaving the role at the end of the second series in late 2017. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. , actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Matt Smith is best known as the eleventh Timelord in the BBC One series, Doctor Who. At 26, he became the youngest actor to take the part. His future looked set to be in football: he played at youth level for Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City until a serious back condition ended his highly promising career prematurely. His drama teacher encouraged him to take up acting and he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at the University of East Anglia. He played Lockwood in the National Theatre's touring production of The History Boys and was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award for his performance in Polly Stenham's That Face. He also appeared as a political researcher in the BBC Two parliamentary drama, Party Animals. Despite being a surprise choice to play The Doctor in 2009, he became the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA television award for his performance in this role, and has won two National Television Awards. When he left Doctor Who at the end of 2013, he appeared on stage as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: The Musical. In 2016 he took the part of HRH Prince Philip Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh, in the Netflix series The Crown, and received great acclaim, leaving the role at the end of the second series in late 2017. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Matthew Barzun | 20160703 | 20160708 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun. Born in New York City as the second of four children to Roger Barzun, a lawyer, and his wife Serita Winthrop, he was brought up in the small Massachusetts town of Lincoln. He followed in the family tradition and read History and Literature of America at Harvard University, taking a break for a year to work as a teaching assistant in Cape Town. After graduating he worked for an internet start-up company in San Francisco, where he became chief strategy officer. He left in 2004 after getting involved with fundraising for John Kerry's failed presidential campaign. He was in the audience for Barak Obama's, 'there are no red or blue States, just a United States' speech in 2004 and subsequently went to work for him, fundraising for Obama's 2008 bid for the White House. When President Obama won, he appointed Matthew as Ambassador to Sweden only to recall him to take up the role of National Finance Chair for the 2012 re-election campaign. Matthew is credited with developing a 'low dollar' model of funding, where many pay a few dollars for tickets to political events. In July 2013, he was nominated as the new Ambassador to the UK by President Obama, a post he took up in August 2013 and which ends in January 2017. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Matthew Bourne | 20041119 | | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the choreographer Matthew Bourne. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. Sue Lawley's guest this week is the choreographer Matthew Bourne. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. |
| Michael Bubl㩠| 20161030 | 20161104 (R4) | , singer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer, Michael Bublé. Born in Burnaby, British Columbia, as a young boy he spent hours listening to his grandfather's record collection which featured the stars of the Great American songbook - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Ella Fitzgerald. At sixteen he was singing at venues often in exchange for the free plumbing services his grandad offered to get him on stage. But it took ten years of plugging away at restaurants, clubs, and corporate gigs before he met David Foster, a music producer at Warner Brothers. His released his first eponymous debut album in 2003. Since then he has won four Grammy Awards and sold 55 million records. He is married to Argentinian actress Luisana Lopilato and they have two young sons. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Michael Deeley | 20081214 | 20081219 | Kirsty Young invites the film producer Michael Deeley to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Michael Deeley | 20081219 | | Kirsty Young invites the film producer Michael Deeley to choose eight records. |
| Michael Eavis | 20081130 | 20081205 | Kirsty Young invites the founder of Glastonbury Michael Eavis to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the founder of Glastonbury Michael Eavis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Michael Heath | 20160807 | 20160812 (R4) | , cartoonist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Michael Heath, cartoonist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Sarah Taylor. 
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| Michael Howard | 20040704 | 20040709 | Sue Lawley talks to the Leader of the Opposition Michael Howard. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. He was raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Llanelli, South Wales, where his parents ran ladies' fashion shops. In the Labour supporting, rugby playing valleys, the teenage Michael preferred football and his leanings were towards the Conservatives. He propelled himself to Peterhouse College, Cambridge – and was part of the Cambridge MAFIA that included Kenneth Clarke, Leon Brittan, Norman Lamont and Norman Fowler. But while his contemporaries all entered parliament within a few years of graduating, Michael Howard's journey to Westminster took considerably longer. He first stood as a Conservative candidate in 1966 when he was just 24 years old. He tried again, unsuccessfully, in 1970, but it was not until 1983 – after putting his name forward for dozens of safe seats – that he was chosen as the party's candidate for Folkestone and Hythe and secured a seat in the House of Commons. He says that by the time he was successful, he wondered whether he was too old to make his mark there. But he rose quickly through the ministerial ranks and had secured a place in cabinet before he was 50. He was John Major's Home Secretary for four years – a controversial period that culminated in his former deputy, Ann Widdecombe, saying there was 'something of the night' in his personality. When he stood to be leader of the party in 1997 he came fifth out of five candidates. But eight months ago he was elected, unopposed, the new leader of the party. He told Sue Lawley: 'I was astonished. It was not something I ever thought would happen and if we'd been sitting here a year ago and you'd told me that I'd be sitting here today as leader of the Conservative Party, I have said that you were prone to fantasies' 1. All You Need is Love Performer Beatles Composer Lennon/McCartney Publisher EMI CD Title The Beatles/1967-1970 Track 7 Label Apple Rec No: CDPCSP 718 2. Cwm Rhondda Performer Morriston Orpheus Choir Composer J Hughes-W Williams-P Williams Publisher Grasmere music CD Title Always on My Mind Track 14 Label Grasmere Rec No: GRCD 59 3. Long Tall Sally Performer Little Richard Composer Johnson, Penniman, Blackwell Publisher Speciality Records CD Title Little Richard - 22 Classic Cuts Track 1 Label ACE Rec No: CDCH 195 4. Blue Monk Performer Thelonious Monk Quartet Composer Thelonious Monk Publisher Fantasy CD Title Thelonious in Action Track 5 Label Riverside Rec No: OJCCD 103-2 5. You'll Never Walk Alone Performer Gerry and the Pacemakers Composer Rogers and Hammerstein Publisher See for Miles CD Title Gerry and the Pacemakers:The E.P. collection Track 6 Label See for Miles Rec No: SEECD 95 6. 2nd movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C Performer Alfred Brendel with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner Composer Mozart Publisher Philips CD Title Mozart: Piano Concertos K.450 and K.467 Label Philips Rec No: 400 018-2 7. A White Shade of Pale Performer Procol Harum Composer Brooker/Reid Publisher Onward Music CD Title Procol Harum/30th anniversary anthology Label Westside Rec No: WESX 301 8. (Everything I do) I Do It for You Performer Bryan Adams Composer Bryan Adams Publisher A and M records CD Title (Everything I do) I Do It for You Label A and M Rec No: AMCD 789 Record: (Everything I do) I do it forYou Book: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A Caro Luxury: A hot shower and some soap. Sue Lawley talks to the Leader of the Opposition Michael Howard. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Michael Johnson | 20111016 | 20111021 | Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the athlete Michael Johnson. He is the only person ever to hold world records in the 200 and 400 metres at the same time and, by the time he hung up his legendary gold trainers, his haul of medals included five Olympic golds. His upright running style earned him the nickname 'the duck'. He says: "They called me a really fast duck! I was ranked number one in the world - I'm so far ahead of the other people, why am I the one that's wrong?" Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Michael Johnson | 20111021 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the athlete Michael Johnson. He is the only person ever to hold world records in the 200 and 400 metres at the same time and, by the time he hung up his legendary gold trainers, his haul of medals included five Olympic golds. His upright running style earned him the nickname 'the duck'. He says: "They called me a really fast duck! I was ranked number one in the world - I'm so far ahead of the other people, why am I the one that's wrong?" Producer: Leanne Buckle. Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
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| Michael Mansfield | 20101017 | 20101022 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield. He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the high profile cases he's been involved in. He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in which a difference can be made.". Barrister Michael Mansfield joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: The Goons - What's the Time, Eccles? Book: The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine as his Bible: and The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Luxury: A drum kit. He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in which a difference can be made.". |
| Michael Mansfield | 20101022 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield. He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the high profile cases he's been involved in. He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in which a difference can be made." Record: The Goons - What's the Time, Eccles? Book: The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine as his Bible: and The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Luxury: A drum kit. Barrister Michael Mansfield joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Michael Mcintyre | 20110717 | 20110722 | Comedian and Britain's Got Talent judge, Michael McIntyre, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Comedian Michael McIntyre joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. interviewed by Kirsty Young's for Desert Island Discs. In less than five years he's gone from being an unknown stand-up with debts of more than £30,000 to become one of the most successful comedians in the business - with awards, chart-topping DVDs and sell-out arena shows under his belt. He says: "I was on the circuit for years, I did get more and more in debt - it really did drag on and I just couldn't get a break. But when my chance came, I'd envisaged it so many times, I wasn't even nervous. I knew I could do it." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Michael Mcintyre | 20110722 | | interviewed by Kirsty Young's for Desert Island Discs. In less than five years he's gone from being an unknown stand-up with debts of more than £30,000 to become one of the most successful comedians in the business - with awards, chart-topping DVDs and sell-out arena shows under his belt. He says: "I was on the circuit for years, I did get more and more in debt - it really did drag on and I just couldn't get a break. But when my chance came, I'd envisaged it so many times, I wasn't even nervous. I knew I could do it." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Comedian Michael McIntyre joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
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| Micky Flanagan | 20171119 | | , comedian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Micky Flanagan found mainstream success as a comedian in 2007 with his autobiographical 'What Chance Change?' show at the Edinburgh fringe, where he was nominated as best newcomer. Raised in the East End of London, he left school at 15 with no qualifications and followed his dad into work as a fish porter at Billingsgate fish market. When he quit that job, he spent a summer working in a kitchen in New York, and then returned to London to spend much of the 1980s working in the furniture trade. When his business collapsed he worked as a window cleaner and decorator. He played truant through much of his secondary school career, but in his mid-twenties he studied for a GCSE in English, and later gained a place at City University, London, graduating with Social Sciences degree. He trained to become a teacher, and then discovered comedy through night classes. Sell-out UK tours and appearances on 'Mock the Week' and 'Would I Lie to You' followed, and he's made two TV series for Sky - 'Detour De France' and 'Micky Flanagan: Thinking Aloud'. He's just finished his third tour of the UK and Ireland with his show 'An' Another Fing ' Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Miranda Hart | 20131222 | 20131227 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Miranda Hart. She writes and stars in the hit sitcom "Miranda" and has congaed her way to the top of TV comedy by exploiting the universal truth that awkwardness lies at the heart of the human condition. Slapstick and misunderstanding underpin her work along with the impression that she's just a really, jolly, lovely 'girl': her father was a naval commander and her mother has devoted much of her life to tending a glorious garden. Making her mark has been something of a slog. After her first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe it was another 11 years before she could give up her job as a P.A. - for a good while she was photocopying scripts rather than performing them. She says: "I started writing comedy because it was more fun inside my head than the real world, but that's no longer true." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Miriam Margolyes | 20080928 | 20081003 | Kirsty Young invites the actress Miriam Margolyes to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
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| Molly Parkin | 20110508 | 20110513 | The Grande Dame of bohemian living, Molly Parkin, joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island discs. Molly Parkin joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the doyenne of bohemian living, Molly Parkin. She left the Welsh valleys to train as a fine artist in London and was a successful painter then teacher before becoming a fashion writer and novelist. She is as well known, though, for her lifestyle as her work. She adopted a hedonistic approach to life - smoking and drinking through the night and picking up numerous lovers along the way. Now aged 79 she prefers to live alone and says she has found a calmer way of living. "I have been blessed, and made it my business, to surround myself with larger than life characters," she says, "love, on a very profound level comes unexpectedly and brilliantly." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Molly Parkin | 20110513 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the doyenne of bohemian living, Molly Parkin. She left the Welsh valleys to train as a fine artist in London and was a successful painter then teacher before becoming a fashion writer and novelist. She is as well known, though, for her lifestyle as her work. She adopted a hedonistic approach to life - smoking and drinking through the night and picking up numerous lovers along the way. Now aged 79 she prefers to live alone and says she has found a calmer way of living. "I have been blessed, and made it my business, to surround myself with larger than life characters," she says, "love, on a very profound level comes unexpectedly and brilliantly." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Molly Parkin joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island discs. |
| Mona Siddiqui | 20121021 | 20121026 | , academic and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the academic and commentator, Mona Siddiqui. Born in Karachi and brought up in Huddersfield, she's a rarity - a female Muslim theologian. As Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at Edinburgh University her analysis regularly sheds light on controversial issues affecting the Muslim faith. Her calm and reasoned standpoint can be heard regularly on the Today programme's Thought for the Day. Brought up in a house stuffed full of books, her academic promise revealed itself early on and despite dallying with the idea of journalism as a career, she finally followed the path her mother wanted for her - academia. She says, "I like to be in places where I feel my voice can be heard and I can say things of some value." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Mona Siddiqui, academic and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Morrissey | 20091129 | 20091204 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Morrissey. As the lead singer of The Smiths he captivated a generation of angst-ridden teenagers and, a quarter of a century later, he remains the outsider's outsider. As a child, he was enthralled by the emotion and beauty in pop music. He discovered the joy of public performance when, as a six-year-old boy, he stood on a table and started singing. But from an early age he felt he had to avoid everything conventional life had to offer. 'I just didn't want the norm in any way, he says, 'and I didn't get it. And I'm very glad.'. |
| Morrissey | 20091204 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey. |
| Murray Walker | 20140316 | 20140321 | Kirsty Young talks to motor racing commentator Murray Walker. 
Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Murray Walker His commentating career began in 1948 and he finally hung the lip mic at the end of 2001. His trousers-on-fire style of delivery brought excitement, emotion and fanatical obsession to Formula 1 - for many motor racing fans he was motorsport. He was a petrol-head before the term had even been coined; his father, one of the top motorbike racing champions of his day, ignited his son's life-long love of big noisy engines. He's talked British fans through so many of the sport's greatest victories - Damon Hill crossing the finish line to win the World Title brought an audible lump to his throat. But also, inevitably, there have been great tragedies too - his live commentary on Ayrton Senna's fatal crash in 1994 was possibly his most professionally demanding. He says, "I have always believed that Formula One, with its highs and lows, is the ultimate distillation of life." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Nadiya Hussain | 20160814 | 20160819 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the baker and winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2015, Nadiya Hussain. One of six children born to Bangladeshi parents in Luton, it was her father - a restaurateur - who encouraged her to cook. Having grown up in a culture where dessert wasn't common, her love of baking was awakened by her Year Ten home economics teacher. She had an arranged marriage to Abdal in her early twenties and stayed at home to bring up their three children until her husband encouraged her to apply for the Bake Off. She was selected and over 15 million viewers watched her beat her fellow finalists Tamal and Ian. Since winning Bake Off, Nadiya has been writing a column for the Times Magazine and has published her first cook book. She also has further books and a TV programme in the pipeline. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Naomi Klein | 20171126 | | , writer and activist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. The writer and activist Naomi Klein reached an international audience with her first book, the best-selling No Logo, a rallying cry against the power of corporate brands and the replacement of traditional manufacturing jobs with sweatshop labour. Since then, she's turned her intellectual ire on to even bigger terrain - the political and economic systems underpinning capitalism and climate change. The way to save the planet, she says, requires a radical rethink which will address what she calls the "unresolved tensions" between big business and over-consumption. It's no surprise then that her fierce broadsides against the free market ideology have attracted plaudits and opprobrium in equal measure. But, coming from a family steeped in political activism, such polarized reactions come with the territory. Her grandparents were fervent Marxists and she was born in Canada to American activist parents who fled the US in protest against the Vietnam War. Her mother is a feminist filmmaker while her doctor father was heavily involved with the natural birth movement. Growing up in the 1980s, she was a committed shopper and self-confessed "teeny bopper." But at 19 she experienced a dramatic political awakening - after that, she says, "you had to call yourself a feminist." Presenter Kirsty Young
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| Nick Clegg | 20101024 | 20101029 | Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. Of his career, he says: "Joining the Liberal Party was a no brainer for me - when you're a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying 'Am I going to get to power?' you get propelled forward by idealism". Yet this week more than any other, critics have questioned whether his interest in power has meant his ideals have had to take a back seat. In this candid conversation, he describes the behind-the-scenes negotiations that underpinned the coalition and he shares the personal trauma when, after his wife and baby son had both been dangerously ill, he wondered whether a political career would place too heavy a burden on his family. Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Nick Clegg | 20101029 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. Of his career, he says: "Joining the Liberal Party was a no brainer for me - when you're a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying 'Am I going to get to power?' you get propelled forward by idealism". Yet this week more than any other, critics have questioned whether his interest in power has meant his ideals have had to take a back seat. In this candid conversation, he describes the behind-the-scenes negotiations that underpinned the coalition and he shares the personal trauma when, after his wife and baby son had both been dangerously ill, he wondered whether a political career would place too heavy a burden on his family. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Nick Park | 20101219 | 20101224 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park. His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international. The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Oscar winning film-maker Nick Park joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Record: I Forgot that Love Existed - Van Morrison Book: A Collins Bird book Luxury: My own 'Amazing pair of binoculars'. His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international. The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that." |
| Nick Park | 20101224 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park. His most famous creations are Wallace and Gromit: Gromit the silent but wise dog; Wallace, his well meaning owner with notably less brain-power. They now hold the same place in the nation's heart at Christmas that Morcambe and Wise once occupied. They are old-fashioned and quintessentially British - as familiar as bread and butter, or hoping the rain holds off - but their appeal is international. The world they inhabit is one of Jacobs cream crackers and tea-strainers - so it's little surprise that in real life too Nick Park's own creature comforts are modest: "The thing is, I have everything I want really. I've got my little house, I've got a campervan, I love the British countryside, I'm not after yachts or things like that." Record: I Forgot that Love Existed - Van Morrison Book: A Collins Bird book Luxury: My own 'Amazing pair of binoculars' Producer: Leanne Buckle. Oscar winning film-maker Nick Park joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
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| Nicky Haslam | 20090807 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior designer Nicky Haslam. |
| Nicky Haslam * * | 20090802 | 20090807 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior decorator, socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam. His life defies easy description. In America in the 1960s, he was part of Andy Warhol's circle of friends. He got to know Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Cyd Charisse and President Kennedy; and after all that, he became a cowboy. When he returned to Britain he brought the sleek style of the States with him. When he is designing a room, he says, first he lets the room speak to him, then his client - then he gets the last word on how it should look. Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior designer Nicky Haslam. |
| Nicola Adams | 20161120 | 20161125 (R4) | , boxer and two times Olympic Gold Medallist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Nicola Adams, boxer and Olympian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is Nicola Adams. She made history when she won the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's boxing at London 2012, retaining it in Rio 2016. She is the first woman fighter to hold European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic titles. Having watched classic Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard fights on TV as she was growing up, she entered the ring for the first time at a working men's club when she was only 13. When she was 14, her mother contracted meningitis and for several months Nicola looked after herself and her younger brother. She turned to acting in order to help fund her boxing training, appearing as an extra in Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She first represented her country when she was 18. In 2009 it was announced that women's boxing would feature for the first time at the London Olympics, although before her selection for Team GB she fell down stairs and had to recover from a fracture in one of her vertebra. In 2012 she topped The Independent newspaper's Pink List of the most powerful LGBT people in public life, was made an MBE for services to boxing in 2013 and received a 'Paving The Way' award at the 2016 Mobo awards. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
, boxer and Olympian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Nicola Benedetti | 20140112 | 20140117 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the violinist, Nicola Benedetti. She had her first violin lesson at the age of four, and by the age of eight, she was leading the National Children's Orchestra of Scotland. By the grand old age of ten she was boarding at the Yehudi Menuhin School and receiving lessons from the great man himself. Her big break came when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition - the first Scot to win it. Lucrative recording contracts followed together with a hectic programme of concerts. Still only 26, she is now world-renowned as a soloist and chamber musician. Of Italian descent, her family wasn't particularly musical though the qualities of discipline, hard work and perseverance meant that fun and freedom came after music practice. Passionate about the importance of classical music in education, she walks the talk, committed to developing young musical talent through charity work and masterclasses and she received an MBE from Her Majesty the Queen for these services in 2013. She says, "when I teach seven year olds and they can play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, I say 'that's amazing! Well Done!' And then occasionally Mum would remind me "do you remember what you were playing at that age?" Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
Nicola Benedetti, violinist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. 
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| Nicole Farhi | 20160710 | 20160715 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi. Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in fashion was present from an early age. As a child, she used to design clothes for her paper dolls; as a teenager, she was taken to couture shows in Paris by her stylish aunts. Aged eighteen, she enrolled in fashion school in Paris and began selling her design sketches to earn a little pocket money, thus setting out on a career as a freelance designer. In the early 1970s, she met the British entrepreneur Stephen Marks who was just starting the retail chain French Connection where she became chief designer, and it was he who encouraged her to set up her eponymous label in 1982. Her fashion empire would eventually extend to New York, London and Tokyo before being sold in 2010, and Nicole herself left the business in 2012. Since retiring from fashion, Nicole Farhi has dedicated herself to her other passion - sculpture. She sculpts predominantly in clay and then casts her works in different materials including glass, bronze and concrete. She has been married to the playwright Sir David Hare since 1992. Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. Kirsty Young interviews sculptor and designer Nicole Farhi. 
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| Nigel Owens | 20170205 | 20170210 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the rugby union referee Nigel Owens. His steely authority and quick wit on the field have won him worldwide praise - he's widely regarded as one of the best referees in the business for the impact he makes on the flow and coherence of a game. In 2015 he became the second Welsh official since 1991 to referee a World Cup Final - in a memorable match between New Zealand and Australia. Born and raised in a small village in Carmarthenshire, he first picked up the whistle aged 16, when it became clear to both his teacher and himself that he wouldn't make much impact as a player. A former school technician and farm worker, he broke through onto the international refereeing circuit in 2005 and took charge of his first Test when Japan hosted Ireland in Osaka that summer. In 2007 he became one of the first high-profile sports professionals to come out as gay - a courageous move in a sport which often defines the word macho. He has spoken about this decision as being the biggest challenge he has ever faced - even more so than officiating an international match under intense scrutiny in front of 95,000 spectators and a global TV audience. The severe depression he experienced coming to terms with his sexuality culminated in an attempt to take his own life in his twenties. He now says the unwavering support he has received from the rugby authorities, the players and the fans has enabled him to be true to himself and carry on working in the game he loves. Producer: Paula McGinley. Kirsty Young talks to international rugby union referee Nigel Owens. 
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| Nile Rodgers | 20181014 | 20181019 (R4) | , musician, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. , musician, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Nile Rodgers | 20181014 | | Musician Nile Rodgers is interviewed by Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Nile Rodgers | 20181014 | 20181019 (R4) | Musician Nile Rodgers is interviewed by Lauren Laverne. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Nile Rodgers | 20181014 | | Nile Rodgers, musician, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Nile Rodgers | 20181014 | 20181019 (R4) | Nile Rodgers, musician, is interviewed by Lauren Laverne for Desert Island Discs. Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives. |
| Noah Stewart | 20121014 | 20121019 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the American opera singer, Noah Stewart. He's a hit in opera houses around the world and his solo CD has topped the classical charts. Yet for a long time the closest he managed to get to the stage was as a receptionist at Carnegie Hall. He won a scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York though while waiting for his big break, he waited tables and did voice overs for Sesame Street. Blessed not only with rich, clear tenor tones he also possesses the good looks of a Hollywood film star. Brought up by his single mother in Harlem, he still lives with her when he's not travelling the world and says of the neighbourhood he grew up in,... "for me it was hard to be there... because I just didn't see many successful black men around... there were just not many of us who made it out". Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. Kirsty Young interviews opera singer Noah Stewart. |
| Noel Gallagher | 20150719 | 20150724 (R4) | , musician, songwriter and former lead guitarist with Oasis, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Noel Gallagher. He was the principal songwriter of the band Oasis - his younger brother, Liam was the lead singer. Born to Irish parents, as a child he spent his summers visiting his mother's family in rural County Mayo, in sharp contrast to the Manchester council estate where they lived. He taught himself to play the guitar and loved music: he was road manager for the Inspiral Carpets before joining Liam in Oasis. Their debut album in 1994 marked the beginning of the band's rise to fame as part of the Britpop movement. In 1996 they played in front of 250,000 fans over two consecutive nights at Knebworth and following the Labour landslide in 1997, Noel attended what became known as the Cool Britannia party held in Downing Street by Tony Blair. Oasis won six BRIT Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards before disbanding in August 2009. He's since formed his own band - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. 
Noel Gallagher, musician, songwriter and former lead guitarist with Oasis, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Novelist alexander Mccall Smith | 20050619 | 20050624 | Sue Lawley invites the novelist Alexander McCall Smith to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the novelist Alexander McCall Smith to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Novelist Paulo Coelho | 20050703 | 20050708 | Sue Lawley invites the novelist Paulo Coelho to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the novelist Paulo Coelho to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Pam Ayres | 20180805 | 20180810 (R4) | Pam Ayres, poet and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Pam Ayres is a poet and broadcaster. Pam was born in the Vale of the White Horse and retains her characteristic Berkshire burr. She is the youngest of six children, and grew up in the company of her four brothers and a sister in a small council house. Although she was interested in writing from an early age, she failed her 11-plus exam and left school at 15 to join the Civil Service and later the Women's Royal Air Force, where she found opportunities to appear in amateur dramatics. She began to perform her comic verse in local folk clubs in the early 1970s and her first break came when she secured a spot on BBC Radio Oxford. In 1975, she won the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks and by the following year she had given up her day job. Pam has sold more than three million copies of her books, and has been called "the people's poet", thanks to her ability to write verse which resonates with a wide audience. Her best-loved poems include Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth, which was voted one of the UK's top ten comic verses in a BBC poll. Striking a very different note, her poem Woodland Burial has become a popular reading at funerals. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Pam Ayres | 20180805 | | Pam Ayres, poet and broadcaster, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Pam Ayres is a poet and broadcaster. Pam was born in the Vale of the White Horse and retains her characteristic Berkshire burr. She is the youngest of six children, and grew up in the company of her four brothers and a sister in a small council house. Although she was interested in writing from an early age, she failed her 11-plus exam and left school at 15 to join the Civil Service and later the Women's Royal Air Force, where she found opportunities to appear in amateur dramatics. She began to perform her comic verse in local folk clubs in the early 1970s and her first break came when she secured a spot on BBC Radio Oxford. In 1975, she won the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks and by the following year she had given up her day job. Pam has sold more than three million copies of her books, and has been called "the people's poet", thanks to her ability to write verse which resonates with a wide audience. Her best-loved poems include Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth, which was voted one of the UK's top ten comic verses in a BBC poll. Striking a very different note, her poem Woodland Burial has become a popular reading at funerals. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Pamela Rose | 20150531 | 20150605 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Pamela Rose. Now aged 97, she was a Bletchley Girl who spent her war years working in total secrecy, painstakingly indexing snippets of information that would prove vital to the the war effort. Alan Turing and his fellow cryptanalysts would eventually break the Enigma Code and it's said that this breakthrough shortened the war by two years. Born into a musical family, she first took to the stage at boarding school. Pamela's lifelong ambition to be an actress was interrupted by the war and the invitation to work at Bletchley. Despite finding the work in the indexing section of Hut 4 something of a disappointment at first, she and her fellow workers still managed to have fun and she met her husband Jim at a hop when he asked her to dance. They married after the war and it wasn't until nearly sixty years later and after Jim's death that she would finally achieve her dream of acting on the West End stage. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to castaway and former Bletchley girl Pamela Rose. 
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| Pat Albeck | 20150322 | 20150327 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Pat Albeck. Born in Hull, Pat went to art school there when she was 16. In 1950, she earned a place at The Royal College of Art to study textile design and moved to London. As Britain emerged from the austerity of the war years, Pat began her career designing bold and exciting fabrics for the fashionable dress design company of the time, Horrocks. In the 60 years that have followed, her designs have graced pottery, paper, furnishing fabrics as well as over 300 tea towels - a record which has brought her the unofficial title 'Queen of the Tea Towel'. Producer: Isabel Sargent. 
Kirsty Young interviews designer Pat Albeck. |
| Pat Barker | 20031114 | | Sue Lawley talks to Booker prize-winning novelist Pat Barker, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. |
| Patricia Greene | 20151227 | 20160101 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Patricia Greene. For nearly sixty years she has played the role of Jill in Radio 4's The Archers which celebrates its 65th anniversary on January 1st 2016. Over the decades the storylines have followed her character through one marriage, four children and since 2010, widowhood. Born in Derby in 1931, Paddy's love of acting began early on inspired by her father who was a keen amateur actor. As an only and independent child she was surrounded by the adult world and would often eavesdrop as she hid under the kitchen table. Her parents loved entertainment and would take her to the cinema every week to see Hollywood romances or comedies. After attending a grammar school she went to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 1951. She wanted to be a classical actress, but then a phone call from the Archers production office changed her career path and she joined the cast initially on a six week contract in 1957. Her character Jill went onto marry the farmer Phil Archer, and is still there with a recent storyline seeing her return to Brookfield, the family farm. Patricia has been married twice and was widowed in 1986. She was awarded an MBE in 2007. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Patsy Rodenburg | 20120304 | 20120309 | Patsy Rodenburg, renowned voice coach, is interviewed by Kirsty Young Kirsty Young's castaway is the renowned voice coach Patsy Rodenburg. Her work at the National Theatre and the RSC has spanned decades and her students include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. But her work takes her away from the stage too - she has coached politicians and helped offenders in prison. She says: "I did some work on Hamlet in a top security prison and the guy playing Claudius was a murderer and he spoke, 'Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven', and he just broke." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Patsy Rodenburg | 20120309 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the renowned voice coach Patsy Rodenburg. Her work at the National Theatre and the RSC has spanned decades and her students include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. But her work takes her away from the stage too - she has coached politicians and helped offenders in prison. She says: "I did some work on Hamlet in a top security prison and the guy playing Claudius was a murderer and he spoke, 'Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven', and he just broke." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Patsy Rodenburg, renowned voice coach, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. |
| Paul Dacre | 20040125 | 20040130 | One of Britain's most powerful men -- a man feared and wooed by the government in equal measure, he is the editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre. |
| Paul Greengrass | 20170917 | 20170922 | , film director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Paul Greengrass has directed three Jason Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role, and the 9/11 film United 93, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He won a Bafta for the film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, and he wrote and directed the acclaimed Bloody Sunday. His father was a merchant seaman and his mother a teacher and he grew up in Gravesend in Kent. Expelled from his first secondary school, at his next he made his first film at the age of 16. After learning the craft of documentary-making on World In Action at Granada TV, he turned to making feature films. In October 2017, Paul will receive the BFI fellowship, the British Film Institute's highest accolade. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Paul Greengrass has directed three Jason Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role, and the 9/11 film United 93, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He won a Bafta for the film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, and he wrote and directed the acclaimed Bloody Sunday. His father was a merchant seaman and his mother a teacher and he grew up in Gravesend in Kent. Expelled from his first secondary school, at his next he made his first film at the age of 16. After learning the craft of documentary-making on World In Action at Granada TV, he turned to making feature films. In October 2017, Paul will receive the BFI fellowship, the British Film Institute's highest accolade. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Photo: Amanda Benson. |
| Paul Greengrass | 20170922 | | , film director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Paul Greengrass has directed three Jason Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role, and the 9/11 film United 93, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He won a Bafta for the film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, and he wrote and directed the acclaimed Bloody Sunday. His father was a merchant seaman and his mother a teacher and he grew up in Gravesend in Kent. Expelled from his first secondary school, at his next he made his first film at the age of 16. After learning the craft of documentary-making on World In Action at Granada TV, he turned to making feature films. In October 2017, Paul will receive the BFI fellowship, the British Film Institute's highest accolade. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale Photo: Amanda Benson. Paul Greengrass, film director, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Paul Greengrass has directed three Jason Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role, and the 9/11 film United 93, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He won a Bafta for the film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, and he wrote and directed the acclaimed Bloody Sunday. His father was a merchant seaman and his mother a teacher and he grew up in Gravesend in Kent. Expelled from his first secondary school, at his next he made his first film at the age of 16. After learning the craft of documentary-making on World In Action at Granada TV, he turned to making feature films. In October 2017, Paul will receive the BFI fellowship, the British Film Institute's highest accolade. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Paul Hollywood | 20150329 | 20150403 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Paul Hollywood. One of the UK's leading artisan bakers, he's a judge, together with Mary Berry, on BBC One's the Great British Bake Off. The programme enjoyed viewing figures of 15.6m for the 2014 final and has won two BAFTAS. Born and brought up in Wallasey in the Wirral, Paul studied sculpture at art school before joining his father's bakery business. He went on to work at the Chester Grosvenor, Cliveden and was head baker at The Dorchester. Following his success at some of the UK's top hotels, he travelled extensively through Cyprus, Egypt and Jordan discovering ancient techniques for baking bread. It was in Cyprus that he first appeared on camera. On his return to the UK he began his TV career co-presenting two series with the chef James Martin. Paul has judged five series of The Great British Bake Off and celebrity versions for Sport Relief and Comic Relief - all alongside Mary Berry. He has published several best-selling books on baking and is a regular contributor to food magazines and writes a column for The Daily Telegraph. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to Paul Hollywood, baker and co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off 
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| Paul Johnson | 20120115 | 20120120 | Historian and writer Paul Johnson is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Paul Johnson. He writes, he says, out of a desire to 'put things right' and more than fifty books and thousands of articles have flowed from his pen. His opinions have provoked, offended and enraged plenty of people over the years and sweeping works about modernity, morality, art and philosophy, sit alongside fiercely opinionated biographies and essays. He says: "I like to be, in general, in agreement with what most people think, but I also like to be a little bit independent and individual and, thank God, I've been allowed to do that all my writing life." Producer: Leanne Buckle. |
| Paul Johnson | 20120120 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Paul Johnson. He writes, he says, out of a desire to 'put things right' and more than fifty books and thousands of articles have flowed from his pen. His opinions have provoked, offended and enraged plenty of people over the years and sweeping works about modernity, morality, art and philosophy, sit alongside fiercely opinionated biographies and essays. He says: "I like to be, in general, in agreement with what most people think, but I also like to be a little bit independent and individual and, thank God, I've been allowed to do that all my writing life." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Historian and writer Paul Johnson is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
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| Peace Campaigner Satish Kumar | 20050529 | 20050603 | Sue Lawley invites the peace campaigner Satish Kumar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Pen Hadow | 20040516 | 20040521 | Sue Lawley talks to the explorer Pen Hadow. Sue Lawley talks to the explorer Pen Hadow, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening |
| Penelope Wilton | 20080330 | 20080404 | Kirsty Young invites actress Penelope Wilton to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Peter Ackroyd | 20120520 | 20120525 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and biographer, Peter Ackroyd. As a child he used to walk the streets of London with his grandmother - an experience that, he believes, fostered his own love for the city. He was appointed literary editor of The Spectator when he was just 23 and has gone on to write dozens of books since. He has written a biography of London, as well as books about people he calls 'cockney visionaries' such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and, now, Charlie Chaplin. Yet, of the work he's produced so far, he says: "Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. So that final book is the one which gives me a sense of achievement." Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. Kirsty Young interviews novelist Peter Ackroyd. |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | 20050130 | 20050204 | Sue Lawley invites the composer Peter Maxwell Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Sue Lawley invites the composer Peter Maxwell Davies 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 Peter Maxwell Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
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| Peter Sallis * | 20090517 | 20090522 | Kirsty Young invites actor Peter Sallis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. As the unassuming Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and the equally mild-mannered Wallace in Wallace and Gromit, Sallis brings to life a sepia-tinted Britain that barely seems to exist any more. Now aged 88 and with failing eyesight, no-one, he says, is more surprised at his success than himself. 'I've been lucky enough to keep going and I realise now, though it's taken me nearly 100 years, that my voice is distinctive. I'm very lucky indeed.'. |
| Philip Treacy | 20180708 | 20180713 (R4) | Philip Treacy, milliner, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Philip Treacy is one of the most prolific and acclaimed hat designers working in the UK. His work was very much in evidence at this year's Royal Wedding and at Royal Ascot. Meghan Markle wore one of his designs for her first official public engagement as the Duchess of Sussex. Other notable clients include Madonna, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, who has showcased his creations on and off stage, and Lady Gaga, for whom he made a black telephone hat. Originally from Ahascragh, a small village in County Galway, Ireland, Philip learned to sew when he was six years old. He grew up opposite a church and he recalls how, as a young boy, he would go to all the weddings, uninvited, to look at the clothes and in particular the wedding dresses. He went on to study fashion at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and then won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1990 with first class honours. He enjoyed a meteoric rise to success when fashion stylist Isabella Blow saw his student hat collection. She introduced him to Karl Lagerfeld, who quickly invited him to design hats for Chanel Couture when he was still in his early twenties. He has won the title of British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards on five occasions, and was awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry in 2007. Producer: Sarah Taylor. |
| Philip Treacy | 20180708 | 20180713 (R4) | Philip Treacy, milliner, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Philip Treacy is one of the most prolific and acclaimed hat designers working in the UK. His work was very much in evidence at this year's Royal Wedding and at Royal Ascot. Meghan Markle wore one of his designs for her first official public engagement as the Duchess of Sussex. Other notable clients include Madonna, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, who has showcased his creations on and off stage, and Lady Gaga, for whom he made a black telephone hat. Originally from Ahascragh, a small village in County Galway, Ireland, Philip learned to sew when he was six years old. He grew up opposite a church and he recalls how, as a young boy, he would go to all the weddings, uninvited, to look at the clothes and in particular the wedding dresses. He went on to study fashion at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and then won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1990 with first class honours. He enjoyed a meteoric rise to success when fashion stylist Isabella Blow saw his student hat collection. She introduced him to Karl Lagerfeld, who quickly invited him to design hats for Chanel Couture when he was still in his early twenties. He has won the title of British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards on five occasions, and was awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry in 2007. Presenter Kirsty Young
Producer Sarah Taylor. |
| Philip Treacy | 20180708 | | Philip Treacy, milliner, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Philip Treacy is one of the most prolific and acclaimed hat designers working in the UK. His work was very much in evidence at this year's Royal Wedding and at Royal Ascot. Meghan Markle wore one of his designs for her first official public engagement as the Duchess of Sussex. Other notable clients include Madonna, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, who has showcased his creations on and off stage, and Lady Gaga, for whom he made a black telephone hat. Originally from Ahascragh, a small village in County Galway, Ireland, Philip learned to sew when he was six years old. He grew up opposite a church and he recalls how, as a young boy, he would go to all the weddings, uninvited, to look at the clothes and in particular the wedding dresses. He went on to study fashion at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and then won a place on the MA fashion design course at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1990 with first class honours. He enjoyed a meteoric rise to success when fashion stylist Isabella Blow saw his student hat collection. She introduced him to Karl Lagerfeld, who quickly invited him to design hats for Chanel Couture when he was still in his early twenties. He has won the title of British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards on five occasions, and was awarded an honorary OBE for services to the British fashion industry in 2007. Presenter Kirsty Young
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| Photographer Mario Testino | 20051023 | 20051028 | Sue Lawley invites the photographer Mario Testino to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the photographer Mario Testino to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Piers Morgan | 20090607 | 20090612 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. He spent more than a decade as a Fleet Street editor and pioneered a style of journalism that devoured the day-to-day lives of celebrities. Now, he has become something of a celebrity himself, fronting a TV interview programme and sitting as a judge on both America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent. He is, according to one friend, 'the ultimate proof that self-confidence and self-belief can become a self-fulfilling prophecy'. |
| Piers Morgan | 20090612 | | Kirsty Young invites journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan to choose eight records. |
| Pinky Lilani | 20170108 | 20170113 (R4) | , who was awarded a CBE in 2015 for services to women in business, is the founder of the annual Asian Women of Achievement Awards and the Women of the Future Awards. She also runs her own company, which uses Indian food as a means of team-building, and has published two cook books. Pinky was born in Calcutta, now Kolkata, where her parents were affluent and very sociable. They employed one of the best cooks in the city, so Pinky grew up surrounded by people and food. While she enjoyed eating, she had no experience of cooking. When she moved to London with her husband, who she married three weeks after their first meeting, she was unable to cook. After many culinary disasters, she returned to India and the kitchen in her family home, where the household cook shared his expertise. Back in the UK, she started teaching evening cookery classes which in turn led to a role consulting for one of Britain's best-known food companies, who manufacture Asian staples including chutneys, breads and curry pastes. In 2001, she published her first cookery book and set up in business to satisfy the two great loves of her life: food and people. In 1999, she founded the Asian Women of Achievement Awards and seven years later she added the Women of the Future Awards to her portfolio. Both of these have continued to be held annually, drawing high-profile support from, among others, Theresa May, Cherie Blair, the Duchess of York and the Countess of Wessex. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Pinky Lilani, businesswoman, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs 
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| Politician Shirley Williams | 20060129 | 20060203 | Sue Lawley invites the politician Shirley Williams to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Afternoon Morning Evening Sue Lawley invites the politician Shirley Williams to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Principal Ballerina Darcey Bussell | 20060514 | 20060519 | Sue Lawley invites Principal Ballerina Darcey Bussell to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Sue Lawley invites Principal Ballerina Darcey Bussell to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Prof David Phillips | 20110506 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor David Phillips. His love of science has taken him on an extraordinary journey. At the height of the Cold War, he swapped a post in America for a place at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he partied with the Bolshoi and was interrogated by the KGB. He is also Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College, but, despite his eminence, he admits his students had a 'professor button' fitted onto their hi-tech lasers. It was, he explains, a knob he could twiddle while showing visitors around the lab, but it wasn't connected to the machinery and meant he didn't ruin his students' experiments. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Professor of Chemistry David Phillips joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs |
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| Prof Hugh Pennington | 20090717 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is bacteriologist Prof Hugh Pennington. |
| Prof Hugh Pennington * | 20090712 | 20090717 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Hugh Pennington. Professor Pennington has spent his life trying to understand diseases and how they spread. He has chaired two major enquiries into E. coli and his influence is felt everywhere from school kitchens to hospital wards. But he concedes that in his own home, efforts to ban the humble tea-towel from his kitchen have so far failed. Kirsty Young's castaway is bacteriologist Prof Hugh Pennington |
| Professor Angie Hobbs | 20150201 | 20150206 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield - a role which has brought her to the attention of a large audience. Brought up in Surrey, she was the youngest of three children. Her older sister died when Angie was just 11 years old. To begin with, she did not flourish at school, but went on to earn a place at Cambridge where she gained a first class degree in Classics and subsequently a doctorate. A career in academia has followed - after many years at the University of Warwick, she moved, in 2012, to the University of Sheffield. Producer: Isabel Sargent. Kirsty Young talks to Angie Hobbs, professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy. 
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| Professor Brian Cox | 20111230 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Brian Cox. In the press he's been called 'the pin-up professor' and his enormously popular TV series have been credited with creating the 'Brian Cox effect' - a surge in the number of would-be scientists applying to university. As a teenager he decided he wanted to be a rock star; he toured the world as a member of the band Dare and performed on Top of the Pops with his second group D:Ream. He says:"I hope, we're beginning to treat ideas almost like we treated rock and roll - I hope so, it would be wonderful, wouldn't it, if ideas were the new rock and roll?" Producer: Corinna Jones. Professor of physics Brian Cox is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Professor Carlo Rovelli | 20170702 | | , physicist, is interviewed for Desert Island Discs by Kirsty Young |
| Professor Carlo Rovelli | 20170707 | | , physicist, is interviewed for Desert Island Discs by Kirsty Young Kirsty Young's castaway is the theoretical physicist, Professor Carlo Rovelli. His book 'Seven Brief Lessons on Physics' became one of the fastest-selling science titles of all time, catapulting him from the world of academia into the global spotlight. Committed to bridging the gap between science and art and making complex scientific issues comprehensible for the lay person, he is currently Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille University. Born in Verona, and an only child, he was encouraged to learn, to be independent and dreamed of travelling through space. By the age of 12 his long-standing rebellious streak was visible and he would later interrupt his university career to travel. Now in his early sixties, his academic career has seen him work in Europe and America and among the scientific community he is best known as one of the founders of Loop Quantum Gravity theory. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Professor Carlos Frenk | 20180610 | 20180615 (R4) | Prof Carlos Frenk, cosmologist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young invites her castaway guests to share the soundtrack of their lives. Professor Carlos Frenk is a cosmologist and one of the originators of the Cold Dark Matter theory for the formation of galaxies and the structure of the universe. He has worked at Durham University since 1985, where he was appointed the inaugural Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics in 2001 and has been Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology since 2002. Born in Mexico in 1951, he is the son of a German Jewish immigrant father and a Mexican mother with Spanish roots. After completing his physics degree in Mexico, he came to Cambridge University in the mid-1970s to do a PhD in Astronomy. His first postgraduate job took him to the University of California where he worked on a computer simulation of the universe with three fellow cosmologists, disproving the idea that the universe contains hot dark matter and establishing the theory of cold dark matter instead. Professor Frenk's papers have received more than 100,000 citations, making him one of the most frequently cited authors in the field of space science and astronomy. He has won a number of prizes for his work, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was awarded a CBE in 2017. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Professor Colin Pillinger | 20091025 | 20091030 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Colin Pillinger. A world-class planetary scientist, his first job was for NASA, analysing the lunar samples brought back by Apollo 11. He is best known, though, for being the public face of Beagle 2, the daring mission to search for life on Mars. Although Beagle 2 was unsuccessful, he is adamant that the mission was not a failure. Now it is hoped that the technology developed for the mission to Mars can be used to diagnose TB faster than has ever been possible before. Kirsty Young's castaway is scientist Professor Colin Pillinger. |
| Professor Colin Pillinger | 20091030 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is scientist Professor Colin Pillinger. |
| Professor Dame Ann Dowling | 20160724 | 20160729 (R4) | , President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Professor Dame Ann Dowling is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and international expert on aircraft noise reduction, Professor Dame Ann Dowling. The first female president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of her passions is encouraging more young people, particularly women to choose engineering as a career. In 1998 she became the first female professor of Engineering at Cambridge University and went on to be the first female head of the Department. As a child she was fascinated with how things worked, taking her bike apart aged six, and even dismantling the electric lights in her dolls house. Later, an over enthusiastic session with her chemistry set caused the conservatory curtains to briefly catch fire. A passion for aeroplanes led her down the path of aeroacoustics and aircraft noise reduction alongside her hobby of flying airplanes. She was awarded the DBE for services to science in 2007 and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2016. 
is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Professor Dame Carol Black | 20160207 | 20160212 (R4) | , academic, policy advisor and Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Dame Carol Black. She is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and is a special adviser to the Department of Health and Public Health England. She is also Chair of the Board of the Nuffield Trust, the health policy think tank. She read History at Bristol University before beginning her medical career with encouragement from Dame Cecily Saunders, the founder of the hospice movement. She was Head of Rheumatology at London's Royal Free Hospital from 1989-1994, and was Medical Director of the hospital between 1995 and 2002. She's an international expert on scleroderma, a skin and tissue auto-immune disease, and is the second woman to become President of the Royal College of Physicians. She was made a Dame in 2005 for her services to Medicine. 
Professor Dame Carol Black, academic, policy advisor and Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs |
| Professor Dame Jane Francis | 20170924 | 20170929 | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Professor Dame Jane Francis is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She is no stranger to surviving in extreme conditions, because for much of her career her research has taken her to the Polar Regions. Travelling with her fossil hammer, her principal interests are in palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany. She specialises in the study of fossil plants, and how they shape our understanding of climates in the distant past, when Antarctica was much warmer. In 2002 she received the Polar Medal, for her outstanding contribution to British polar research, and in 2013 she became the first woman to head the British Antarctic Survey. Presenter: Kirsty Young
Producer: Sarah Taylor. Professor Dame Jane Francis is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She is no stranger to surviving in extreme conditions, because for much of her career her research has taken her to the Polar Regions. Travelling with her fossil hammer, her principal interests are in palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany. She specialises in the study of fossil plants, and how they shape our understanding of climates in the distant past, when Antarctica was much warmer. In 2002 she received the Polar Medal, for her outstanding contribution to British polar research, and in 2013 she became the first woman to head the British Antarctic Survey. |
| Professor Dame Jane Francis | 20170929 | | is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Professor Dame Jane Francis is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She is no stranger to surviving in extreme conditions, because for much of her career her research has taken her to the Polar Regions. Travelling with her fossil hammer, her principal interests are in palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany. She specialises in the study of fossil plants, and how they shape our understanding of climates in the distant past, when Antarctica was much warmer. In 2002 she received the Polar Medal, for her outstanding contribution to British polar research, and in 2013 she became the first woman to head the British Antarctic Survey. Professor Dame Jane Francis is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Professor Dame Jane Francis is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey. She is no stranger to surviving in extreme conditions, because for much of her career her research has taken her to the Polar Regions. Travelling with her fossil hammer, her principal interests are in palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany. She specialises in the study of fossil plants, and how they shape our understanding of climates in the distant past, when Antarctica was much warmer. In 2002 she received the Polar Medal, for her outstanding contribution to British polar research, and in 2013 she became the first woman to head the British Antarctic Survey. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Professor Dame Kay Davies | 20090215 | 20090220 | Kirsty Young invites Professor Dame Kay Davies, Director of Genetics at Oxford University, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Professor Dame Kay Davies | 20090220 | | Kirsty Young invites Professor Dame Kay Davies to choose eight records. |
| Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell | 20150104 | 20150109 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the scientist, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, who is best known for her work in the field of neuroscience and stroke research. She is now President and Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University. She claims that her decision to enrol at Queen Elizabeth College in London in the '70s was made not on the basis of their superior teaching on the function of living systems, but rather the institution's proximity to Kensington High Street. Anyway, she gained a first class degree and then bagged a PhD in just two years. Could it be that her interest in how we keep the human body alive and functioning began when, aged eight, she contracted primary tuberculosis and was so ill she spent 18 months at home? She says, "Like most academics my fate was sealed during my PhD, I fell in love with research and vowed I would do it until retirement. I was also sure that I would do my utmost to avoid any of those nasty administrative jobs." Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. 
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| Professor David Phillips | 20110501 | 20110506 | Emeritus Professor at Imperial College, University of London and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor David Phillips, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island discs. Kirsty Young's castaway is the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor David Phillips. His love of science has taken him on an extraordinary journey. At the height of the Cold War, he swapped a post in America for a place at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he partied with the Bolshoi and was interrogated by the KGB. He is also Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College, but, despite his eminence, he admits his students had a 'professor button' fitted onto their hi-tech lasers. It was, he explains, a knob he could twiddle while showing visitors around the lab, but it wasn't connected to the machinery and meant he didn't ruin his students' experiments. Producer: Leanne Buckle. Professor of Chemistry David Phillips joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Professor Hugh Montgomery | 20140223 | 20140228 | Kirsty Young talks to intensive care specialist Prof Hugh Montgomery. 
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Professor Hugh Montgomery. His area of academic specialism is intensive care medicine and he's also known for his pioneering genetic research into the ACE fitness gene - which determines our capacity for either strength or endurance. In themselves significant achievements. But he is also, a children's author, an ultra-marathon runner and the current holder of the world record for playing piano underwater. At the age of only 15 he was also part of the dive team that investigated the treasures of The Mary Rose. He says, "I've learnt that life can end randomly and pointlessly at any time. I don't want to be on my death bed and think 'damn! I wish I'd learnt to paint and write songs'". Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
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| Professor Jim Al-khalili | 20100214 | 20100219 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili. He's spent his adult life studying sub-atomic particles - and trying to explain them to the rest of us. He fell in love with physics when he was a teenager growing up in Iraq. With an Iraqi father and English mother, the Baghdad he spent his early years in was cosmopolitan and vibrant but, once Saddam Hussein came to power, his parents realised the family would have to flee, and he has lived and worked in Britain for the past 30 years. |
| Professor Jim Al-khalili | 20100219 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili. |
| Professor Louise Richardson | 20160529 | 20160603 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the political scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Professor Louise Richardson. She was born in Ireland, is one of seven children and has gone on to have an international career as an academic with a particular expertise in terrorism. She has been consulted by many politicians for her knowledge and insight. After many years as a Harvard Professor, she came to Britain to be the first female Vice-Chancellor of St. Andrews University. Since January 2016, she has been the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and is the first woman to hold the post. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kirsty Young interviews Professor Louise Richardson. 
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| Professor Monica Grady | 20150726 | 20150731 (R4) | Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University. Well-known in scientific circles, at NASA and the European Space Agency, she came to the attention of the general public with her enthusiastic celebration when, as part of the Rosetta project, the probe Philae became the first-ever spacecraft to land on a comet - 67P - in November 2014. The spacecraft had taken ten years to journey through space and a decade was spent on the preparations. She was born in 1958 in Leeds as the eldest of eight children. She studied chemistry and geology at Durham University and did her PhD on carbon in meteorites at Cambridge, where she worked closely with Professor Colin Pillinger on the Beagle 2 project to Mars. She first worked at the OU in 1983 before joining the Department of Mineralogy of the Natural History Museum, becoming Head of the Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Division. She is married to Professor Ian Wright who is one of the lead scientists on the Rosetta cometary mission and they have one son. She was awarded a CBE in 2012 for services to space sciences and asteroid (4731) was named "Monicagrady" in her honour. 
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| Professor Peter Piot | 20150125 | 20150130 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Peter Piot. As a microbiologist he is known for his research into viruses and into the public health aspects of sexually transmitted diseases, and, more recently, on the politics of AIDS and global health. Born in Leuven in Belgium, he studied medicine and in 1976, as a young researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, he was sent a blood sample of a Belgian nun living in what was then Zaire who had fallen ill with a mysterious disease. On investigation, Piot and his colleagues realised it was a virus they'd not seen before which they went on to identify as Ebola. He then travelled to Zaire to help quell the outbreak. Later, back in Antwerp, he developed an interest in sexually transmitted diseases and joined the World Health Organisation's Global Programme on HIV/AIDS in 1992. Appointed as Executive Director of the newly created Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in late 1994 his major successes were putting AIDS on the political agenda and achieving a reduction in the price of antiretroviral drugs. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Peter Piot, microbiologist and Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Kirsty Young's castaway is microbiologist Professor Peter Piot. 
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| Professor Phil Scraton | 20171105 | | , academic, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Professor Phil Scraton is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. A criminologist and author, he's director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative and was lead researcher of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Born into a working class family in Wallasey in the Wirral in 1949, he attended a seminary at the age of 12. Deciding the religious life was not for him he worked as a bus conductor before attending Liverpool University where he read Sociology. His early work with Travellers and Liverpool's black community led to an interest in deaths in custody and prison conditions. Then, following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 he would spend the next 28 years researching and writing about the disaster - his book Hillsborough: The Truth was first published in 1999. The Hillsborough Independent Panel's 2012 report led to a second inquest which concluded in April 2016 that the 96 people who died had been unlawfully killed and that fans behaviour had not contributed to the disaster in any way. Phil and his partner, Deena, have lived in Belfast since 2003. He has two grown-up sons from his first marriage. Presenter: Kirsty Young
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| Professor Sue Black | 20151018 | 20151023 (R4) | , Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Sue Black. She is Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee, founder and past President of the British Association for Human Identification and heads the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification in Dundee. Brought up on the west coast of Scotland and in Inverness, she fell in love with biology at secondary school and read Human Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen. After graduation she worked at London's St Thomas' Hospital as an anatomist and police began to call on her to help identify bones. In 1999 she travelled to Kosovo, tasked with investigating the site of a mass shooting. She has worked in areas of conflict including Iraq and was part of the team helping to identify victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her services to forensic anthropology. Kirsty Young interviews forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black. 
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| Professor Tanya Byron | 20131027 | 20131101 | , clinical psychologist and TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Tanya has spent the last twenty years in clinical practice, helping children, young people and families deal with some of the most difficult parts of life - depression, anxiety, aggression, self harming and drug addiction. She came to public prominence through her television work, books and advice columns and it would seem that she had the perfect background to cope with life in the spotlight - her father was a successful tv and theatre director and her mother worked variously as a nursing sister and a model. A highly dramatic family tragedy ignited her interest in what spurs people to behave the way that they do. She says of her work "I do have a particular desire to enable young people, on the cusp of what could be the most extraordinary life, to live... and live well." Producer: Isabel Sargent. Kirsty Young talks to Prof Tanya Byron, clinical psychologist and TV presenter. Professor Tanya Byron, clinical psychologist and TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: john Sessions | 19900225 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Previous in series: JOHN PILGER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation and refs. to doing impersonations for 'Spitting Image'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Sessions (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 401188. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: john Sessions | 19900302 | | First broadcast on 1990-02-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Previous in series: JOHN PILGER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation and refs. to doing impersonations for 'Spitting Image'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Sessions (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 401188. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: jonathan Pryce | 19900520 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: David Blunkett M.P Previous in series: MOLLY KEANE Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' and his enjoyment of appearing in a musical. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 20 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 25 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jonathan Pryce (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 440704. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: jonathan Pryce | 19900525 | | First broadcast on 1990-05-20 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: David Blunkett M.P Previous in series: MOLLY KEANE Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' and his enjoyment of appearing in a musical. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 20 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 25 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jonathan Pryce (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 440704. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: june Whitfield | 19900429 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: Mary Wesley Description SBH:The comedy actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' and Terry Scott. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 29 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 04 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) June Whitfield (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 389158. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: june Whitfield | 19900504 | | First broadcast on 1990-04-29 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: Mary Wesley Description SBH:The comedy actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' and Terry Scott. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 29 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 04 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) June Whitfield (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 389158. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: mary Wesley | 19900422 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: June Whitfield Previous in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Description SBH:DESERT ISLAND DISCS: The novelist Mary Wesley chooses the eight records she would take to the mystical desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Produced by Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 22 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Mary Wesley (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 585128. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: mary Wesley | 19900427 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: mary Wesley | 19901209 | 19901214 | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: mary Wesley | 19901214 | | First broadcast on 1990-04-22 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: June Whitfield Previous in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Description SBH:DESERT ISLAND DISCS: The novelist Mary Wesley chooses the eight records she would take to the mystical desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Produced by Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 22 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Mary Wesley (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 585128. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Barbara Castle | 19901111 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ELIZABETH WELCH Previous in series: LORD ANNAN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: Barbara Castle (Baroness Castle of Blackburn) talks about her life and career and chooses her 8 favourite records. Includes refs. to reasons she doesn't use her title', early life, marriage, sacking by PM James Callaghan, time as MEP. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 11 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Barbara Castle (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 396409. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0046 Recorded on 1990-11-09 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: Barbara Castle (Baroness Castle of Blackburn) talks about her life and career and chooses her 8 favourite records. Includes refs. to reasons she doesn't use her title', early life, marriage, sacking by PM James Callaghan, time as MEP. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Barbara Castle | 19901116 | | First broadcast on 1990-11-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ELIZABETH WELCH Previous in series: LORD ANNAN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: Barbara Castle (Baroness Castle of Blackburn) talks about her life and career and chooses her 8 favourite records. Includes refs. to reasons she doesn't use her title', early life, marriage, sacking by PM James Callaghan, time as MEP. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 11 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Barbara Castle (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 396409. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0046 Recorded on 1990-11-09 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: Barbara Castle (Baroness Castle of Blackburn) talks about her life and career and chooses her 8 favourite records. Includes refs. to reasons she doesn't use her title', early life, marriage, sacking by PM James Callaghan, time as MEP. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Barbara Windsor | 19900923 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GARY LINEKER Previous in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Kenneth Williams, the Kray Twins and her marriage to Ronnie Knight. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 23 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 28 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Barbara Windsor (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 469362. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0039 Recorded on 1990-09-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Kenneth Williams, the Kray Twins and her marriage to Ronnie Knight. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Barbara Windsor | 19900928 | | First broadcast on 1990-09-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GARY LINEKER Previous in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Kenneth Williams, the Kray Twins and her marriage to Ronnie Knight. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 23 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 28 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Barbara Windsor (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 469362. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0039 Recorded on 1990-09-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Kenneth Williams, the Kray Twins and her marriage to Ronnie Knight. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Baroness Trumpington | 19901125 | 19901130 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI Previous in series: ELIZABETH WELCH Description SBH:Baroness Trumpington, Minister of State for Agriculture, talks about her life and chooses eight records to take to the desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 25 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 04 Aug 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jean Trumpington (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 321767. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0048 Recorded on 1990-11-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Baroness Trumpington, Minister of State for Agriculture, talks about her life and chooses eight records to take to the desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Baroness Trumpington | 19901130 | | First broadcast on 1990-11-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI Previous in series: ELIZABETH WELCH Description SBH:Baroness Trumpington, Minister of State for Agriculture, talks about her life and chooses eight records to take to the desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 25 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 04 Aug 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jean Trumpington (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 321767. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0048 Recorded on 1990-11-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Baroness Trumpington, Minister of State for Agriculture, talks about her life and chooses eight records to take to the desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Brian Keenan | 19901223 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0052 Recorded on 1990-12-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 378763 Next in series: LORD GOODMAN Previous in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Brian Keenan, former hostage in Lebanon, talks about his life and his captivity, and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 23 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 28 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Brian Keenan (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Brian Keenan, former hostage in Lebanon, talks about his life and his captivity, and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Brian Keenan | 19901228 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0052 First broadcast on 1990-12-23 Recorded on 1990-12-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 378763 Next in series: LORD GOODMAN Previous in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Brian Keenan, former hostage in Lebanon, talks about his life and his captivity, and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 23 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 28 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Brian Keenan (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Brian Keenan, former hostage in Lebanon, talks about his life and his captivity, and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Chili Bouchier | 19960121 | 19960126 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Julian Barnes Previous in series: JIMMY MCGOVERN Description Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) entertainers Broadcast history 21 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Chili Bouchier (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-11. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Chili Bouchier | 19960126 | | First broadcast on 1996-01-21 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Julian Barnes Previous in series: JIMMY MCGOVERN Description Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) entertainers Broadcast history 21 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Chili Bouchier (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-11. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Christopher Hampton | 19960107 | 19960112 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JIMMY MCGOVERN Previous in series: MARGARET TEBBIT Description Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 07 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 12 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Christopher Hampton (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-12-22. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Christopher Hampton | 19960112 | | First broadcast on 1996-01-07 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JIMMY MCGOVERN Previous in series: MARGARET TEBBIT Description Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 07 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 12 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Christopher Hampton (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-12-22. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Clive Jenkins | 19901014 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ERNIE WISE Previous in series: JOHN THAW Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: one of the leading figures in the trade union movement, the former Gen. Sec. of the A.S.T.M.S., talks about his life and career and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 14 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Clive Jenkins (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 431917. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0042 Recorded on 1990-10-09 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: one of the leading figures in the trade union movement, the former Gen. Sec. of the A.S.T.M.S., talks about his life and career and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Clive Jenkins | 19901019 | | First broadcast on 1990-10-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ERNIE WISE Previous in series: JOHN THAW Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: one of the leading figures in the trade union movement, the former Gen. Sec. of the A.S.T.M.S., talks about his life and career and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 14 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Clive Jenkins (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 431917. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0042 Recorded on 1990-10-09 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: one of the leading figures in the trade union movement, the former Gen. Sec. of the A.S.T.M.S., talks about his life and career and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: David Blunkett M.p | 19900527 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Ken Dodd Previous in series: Jonathan Pryce Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - the Labour politician talks about his life and career and chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness and difficult early life in Sheffield. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 27 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 01 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) David Blunkett (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 396854. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0022 Recorded on 1990-05-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - the Labour politician talks about his life and career and chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness and difficult early life in Sheffield. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: David Blunkett M.p | 19900601 | | First broadcast on 1990-05-27 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Ken Dodd Previous in series: Jonathan Pryce Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - the Labour politician talks about his life and career and chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness and difficult early life in Sheffield. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 27 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 01 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) David Blunkett (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 396854. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0022 Recorded on 1990-05-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - the Labour politician talks about his life and career and chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness and difficult early life in Sheffield. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Dennis Skinner | 19900112 | | Next in series: John Peel Previous in series: Dirk Bogarde Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: the backbench Labour MP talks about his life and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 12 Jan 1990 00:00-00:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Dennis Skinner (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 403030. BBC Programme Number: 40SX3030 Recorded on 1989-12-19 See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: the backbench Labour MP talks about his life and chooses his eight favourite records. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Media: T |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Desmond Tutu | 19950908 | | First broadcast on 1994-11-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT Previous in series: KATHLEEN HALE Description *Commercial discs Subject Categories profiles (programme format) Broadcast history 06 Nov 1994 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 11 Nov 1994 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 08 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Desmond Tutu (Speaker) Recorded on 1994-10-26 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Duchess Of Kent | 19901216 | 19901221 | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Duchess Of Kent | 19901221 | | First broadcast on 1989-12-24 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Dirk Bogarde Previous in series: PAULINE COLLINS Description SBH:HRH The Duchess of Kent talks about her love of music and work for charities and chooses eight recordings to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 24 Dec 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 21 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Notes: CAIRS 339522. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0052 Recorded on 1989-11-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:HRH The Duchess of Kent talks about her love of music and work for charities and chooses eight recordings to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eduardo Paolozzi | 19901202 | 19901207 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: BRIAN KEENAN Previous in series: BARONESS TRUMPINGTON Description SBH:The sculptor talks about his life and chooses 8 gramophone records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 02 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 07 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Eduardo Paolozzi (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 549602. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0049 Recorded on 1990-11-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:The sculptor talks about his life and chooses 8 gramophone records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eduardo Paolozzi | 19901207 | | First broadcast on 1990-12-02 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: BRIAN KEENAN Previous in series: BARONESS TRUMPINGTON Description SBH:The sculptor talks about his life and chooses 8 gramophone records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 02 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 07 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Eduardo Paolozzi (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 549602. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0049 Recorded on 1990-11-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:The sculptor talks about his life and chooses 8 gramophone records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Elizabeth Welch | 19901118 | 19901123 | Producer: B. OSBORNE Next in series: BARONESS TRUMPINGTON Previous in series: BARBARA CASTLE Broadcast history 18 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-11-14. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0047 Producer: B. OSBORNE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Elizabeth Welch | 19901123 | | First broadcast on 1990-11-18 Producer: B. OSBORNE Next in series: BARONESS TRUMPINGTON Previous in series: BARBARA CASTLE Broadcast history 18 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-11-14. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0047 Producer: B. OSBORNE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eric Clapton | 19900729 | | First broadcast on 1989-09-10 Producer: O.SELIGMAN Next in series: Penelope Lively Previous in series: DAME Vera Lynn Description SBH:Rock guitarist Eric Clapton talks about his life and career and chooses his Desert Island Discs. Refs. to drug addiction; George Harrison; his love for Patti Harrison. Interviewer: Sue Lawley DTF:Documents: PasB TXN/TDT:R4 10-Sep-1989 CON:CLAPTON Eric (spkr) LAWLEY Sue (int) Broadcast history 10 Sep 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Sep 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 29 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 03 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Eric Clapton (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 201288. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eric Clapton | 19900803 | | First broadcast on 1989-09-10 Producer: O.SELIGMAN Next in series: Penelope Lively Previous in series: DAME Vera Lynn Description SBH:Rock guitarist Eric Clapton talks about his life and career and chooses his Desert Island Discs. Refs. to drug addiction; George Harrison; his love for Patti Harrison. Interviewer: Sue Lawley DTF:Documents: PasB TXN/TDT:R4 10-Sep-1989 CON:CLAPTON Eric (spkr) LAWLEY Sue (int) Broadcast history 10 Sep 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Sep 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 29 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 03 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Eric Clapton (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 201288. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0037 Recorded on 1989-07-10 See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Rock guitarist Eric CLAPTON talks about his life and career and chooses his Desert Island Discs. Refs. to drug addiction; George Harrison; his love for Patti Harrison. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ernie Wise | 19901021 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0043 Recorded on 1990-10-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 653728 Next in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Previous in series: CLIVE JENKINS See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his early years in show business, Jack Hylton, his partnership with Eric Morecambe, Des O'Connor, the effect of Eric's death. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 21 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Ernie Wise (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his early years in show business, Jack Hylton, his partnership with Eric Morecambe, Des O'Connor, the effect of Eric's death. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ernie Wise | 19901026 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0043 First broadcast on 1990-10-21 Recorded on 1990-10-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 653728 Next in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Previous in series: CLIVE JENKINS See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his early years in show business, Jack Hylton, his partnership with Eric Morecambe, Des O'Connor, the effect of Eric's death. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 21 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Ernie Wise (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his early years in show business, Jack Hylton, his partnership with Eric Morecambe, Des O'Connor, the effect of Eric's death. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eve Arnold | 19960204 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SUSAN HILL Previous in series: Julian Barnes Description This week's castaway is photographer Eve ARNOLD. She talks to Sue Lawley Subject Categories profiles (programme format) personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 04 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 26 Jul 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Roy Plomley (Author) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Eve Arnold (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-19. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eve Arnold | 19960209 | | First broadcast on 1996-02-04 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SUSAN HILL Previous in series: Julian Barnes Description This week's castaway is photographer Eve ARNOLD. She talks to Sue Lawley Subject Categories profiles (programme format) personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 04 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 26 Jul 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Roy Plomley (Author) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Eve Arnold (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-19. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Gary Lineker | 19900930 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN THAW Previous in series: Barbara Windsor Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Gary Lineker, the Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer, talks about his life and career and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 30 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 05 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Olivia Seligman (Producer) Sue Lawley (Speaker) Gary Lineker (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 378484. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0040 Recorded on 1990-09-20 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - Gary Lineker, the Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer, talks about his life and career and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Gary Lineker | 19901005 | | First broadcast on 1990-09-30 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN THAW Previous in series: Barbara Windsor Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Gary Lineker, the Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer, talks about his life and career and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 30 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 05 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Olivia Seligman (Producer) Sue Lawley (Speaker) Gary Lineker (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 378484. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0040 Recorded on 1990-09-20 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - Gary Lineker, the Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer, talks about his life and career and chooses eight records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Carmen, Qc | 19900624 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: KAFFE FASSETT Previous in series: HAROLD FIELDING Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The barrister talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe and Ken Dodd and the qualities necessary to be a good advocate. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 24 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 29 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Carman (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 449222. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0026 Recorded on 1990-06-21 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The barrister talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe and Ken Dodd and the qualities necessary to be a good advocate. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Carmen, Qc | 19900629 | | First broadcast on 1990-06-24 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: KAFFE FASSETT Previous in series: HAROLD FIELDING Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The barrister talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe and Ken Dodd and the qualities necessary to be a good advocate. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 24 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 29 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Carman (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 449222. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0026 Recorded on 1990-06-21 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The barrister talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe and Ken Dodd and the qualities necessary to be a good advocate. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Porter | 19900311 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: RICHARD ROGERS Previous in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Broadcast history 11 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 05 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 10 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-06. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0011 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Porter | 19900316 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Porter | 19900805 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Porter | 19900810 | | First broadcast on 1990-03-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: RICHARD ROGERS Previous in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Broadcast history 11 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 05 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 10 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-06. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0011 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Steiner | 19960218 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR ROY CALNE Previous in series: SUSAN HILL Description SBH:Professor of Philosophy George Steiner interviewed on his life and career and choses 8 records to take to an imaginary desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 18 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 19 Jul 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Steiner (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 641587. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Steiner | 19960223 | | First broadcast on 1996-02-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR ROY CALNE Previous in series: SUSAN HILL Description SBH:Professor of Philosophy George Steiner interviewed on his life and career and choses 8 records to take to an imaginary desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 18 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 19 Jul 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Steiner (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 641587. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Harold Fielding | 19900617 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE CARMEN, QC Previous in series: MAEVE BINCHY Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The theatrical impresario talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his failed musical 'Ziegfeld'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 17 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 22 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Harold Fielding (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 440714. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0025 Recorded on 1990-06-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The theatrical impresario talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his failed musical 'Ziegfeld'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Harold Fielding | 19900622 | | First broadcast on 1990-06-17 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE CARMEN, QC Previous in series: MAEVE BINCHY Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The theatrical impresario talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his failed musical 'Ziegfeld'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 17 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 22 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Harold Fielding (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 440714. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0025 Recorded on 1990-06-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The theatrical impresario talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his failed musical 'Ziegfeld'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ian Trethowan Sir | 19900304 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE PORTER Previous in series: John Sessions Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The former Director-General of the BBC talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 04 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Ian Trethowan (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408430. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0010 Recorded on 1990-02-27 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The former Director-General of the BBC talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ian Trethowan Sir | 19900309 | | First broadcast on 1990-03-04 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE PORTER Previous in series: John Sessions Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The former Director-General of the BBC talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 04 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Ian Trethowan (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408430. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0010 Recorded on 1990-02-27 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The former Director-General of the BBC talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jack Lemmon | 19900401 | | First broadcast on 1989-10-08 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Alan Plater Previous in series: Lucinda Lambton Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The American film actor talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his films 'Some Like It Hot', 'The China Syndrome' and 'Missing'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 08 Oct 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Oct 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 01 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jack Lemmon (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 397432. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jack Lemmon | 19900406 | | First broadcast on 1989-10-08 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Alan Plater Previous in series: Lucinda Lambton Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The American film actor talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his films 'Some Like It Hot', 'The China Syndrome' and 'Missing'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 08 Oct 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Oct 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 01 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jack Lemmon (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 397432. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0041 Recorded on 1989-10-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The American film actor talks about his life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his films 'Some Like It Hot', 'The China Syndrome' and 'Missing'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jean Rook | 19900715 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON Previous in series: PETER JONAS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer and the trauma of a burglary at her house which led indirectly to the death of her husband. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 15 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 20 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Jean Rook (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 507968. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0029 Recorded on 1990-07-12 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer and the trauma of a burglary at her house which led indirectly to the death of her husband. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jean Rook | 19900720 | | First broadcast on 1990-07-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON Previous in series: PETER JONAS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer and the trauma of a burglary at her house which led indirectly to the death of her husband. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 15 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 20 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Jean Rook (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 507968. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0029 Recorded on 1990-07-12 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer and the trauma of a burglary at her house which led indirectly to the death of her husband. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jimmy Mcgovern | 19960114 | 19960119 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: CHILI BOUCHIER Previous in series: CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Description The castaway this week is screenwriter Jimmy MCGOVERN. He will be talking to Subject Categories one to one discussion programmes (programme format) personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 14 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 17 Jan 1997 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Jimmy Mcgovern (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-12-06. Producer: O. SELIGMAN The castaway this week is screenwriter Jimmy MCGOVERN. He will be talking to |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jimmy Mcgovern | 19960119 | | First broadcast on 1996-01-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: CHILI BOUCHIER Previous in series: CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Description The castaway this week is screenwriter Jimmy MCGOVERN. He will be talking to Subject Categories one to one discussion programmes (programme format) personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 14 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 17 Jan 1997 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Jimmy Mcgovern (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-12-06. Producer: O. SELIGMAN The castaway this week is screenwriter Jimmy MCGOVERN. He will be talking to |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Joan Collins | 19900722 | | First broadcast on 1989-06-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MARK MCCORMACK Previous in series: Maria Aitken Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to acting with Bette Davis and getting older. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Jun 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Jun 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 22 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Joan Collins (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 344841. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Joan Collins | 19900727 | | First broadcast on 1989-06-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MARK MCCORMACK Previous in series: Maria Aitken Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to acting with Bette Davis and getting older. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Jun 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Jun 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 22 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Joan Collins (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 344841. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0026 Recorded on 1989-05-31 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to acting with Bette Davis and getting older. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Biffen | 19900325 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Previous in series: RICHARD ROGERS Broadcast history 25 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-22. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0013 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Biffen | 19900330 | | First broadcast on 1990-03-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL Previous in series: RICHARD ROGERS Broadcast history 25 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 30 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-22. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0013 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Peel | 19900114 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0003 Recorded on 1990-01-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 421506 Next in series: SIR ROBIN DAY Previous in series: DENNIS SKINNER See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) 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). Media: T |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Peel | 19900119 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0003 First broadcast on 1990-01-14 Recorded on 1990-01-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 421506 Next in series: SIR ROBIN DAY Previous in series: DENNIS SKINNER See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) 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). Media: T |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Pilger | 19900218 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: John Sessions Previous in series: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy and working for 'Daily Mirror'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 18 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Pilger (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408709. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0008 Recorded on 1990-02-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy and working for 'Daily Mirror'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Pilger | 19900223 | | First broadcast on 1990-02-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: John Sessions Previous in series: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy and working for 'Daily Mirror'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 18 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Pilger (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408709. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0008 Recorded on 1990-02-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The journalist talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy and working for 'Daily Mirror'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Sessions | 19900225 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0009 Recorded on 1990-02-22 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 401188 Next in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Previous in series: JOHN PILGER See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation and refs. to doing impersonations for 'Spitting Image'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Sessions (Speaker). |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Sessions | 19900302 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0009 First broadcast on 1990-02-25 Recorded on 1990-02-22 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 401188 Next in series: IAN TRETHOWAN SIR Previous in series: JOHN PILGER See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation and refs. to doing impersonations for 'Spitting Image'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 25 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Sessions (Speaker). |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Thaw | 19901007 | | Producer: OLIVIA SELIGMAN Next in series: CLIVE JENKINS Previous in series: GARY LINEKER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse and The Sweeney. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 07 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 12 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 14 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Jul 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Thaw (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 470207. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0041 Recorded on 1990-09-25 See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse and The Sweeney. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Thaw | 19901012 | | First broadcast on 1990-10-07 Producer: OLIVIA SELIGMAN Next in series: CLIVE JENKINS Previous in series: GARY LINEKER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse and The Sweeney. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 07 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 12 Oct 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 14 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 Jul 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) John Thaw (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 470207. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0041 Recorded on 1990-09-25 See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse and The Sweeney. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Updike | 19950910 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE (MP) DO NOT EDIT Next in series: MAX NICHOLSON Previous in series: WENDY RICHARD Description COMMERCIALS USED Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 10 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Dymphna Flynn (Producer) John Updike (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-07-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: John Updike | 19950915 | | First broadcast on 1995-09-10 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE (MP) DO NOT EDIT Next in series: MAX NICHOLSON Previous in series: WENDY RICHARD Description COMMERCIALS USED Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 10 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Dymphna Flynn (Producer) John Updike (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-07-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jonathan Pryce | 19900520 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0021 Recorded on 1990-05-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 440704 Next in series: DAVID BLUNKETT M.P Previous in series: MOLLY KEANE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' and his enjoyment of appearing in a musical. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 20 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 25 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jonathan Pryce (Speaker) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jonathan Pryce | 19900525 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0021 First broadcast on 1990-05-20 Recorded on 1990-05-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 440704 Next in series: DAVID BLUNKETT M.P Previous in series: MOLLY KEANE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actor talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' and his enjoyment of appearing in a musical. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 20 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 25 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Jonathan Pryce (Speaker) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Julian Barnes | 19960128 | 19960202 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE (MP) DO NOT EDIT Next in series: EVE ARNOLD Previous in series: CHILI BOUCHIER Description COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS USED Subject Categories one to one discussion programmes (programme format) metroland (novel) Broadcast history 28 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 02 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Julian Barnes (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-08. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Julian Barnes | 19960202 | | First broadcast on 1996-01-28 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE (MP) DO NOT EDIT Next in series: EVE ARNOLD Previous in series: CHILI BOUCHIER Description COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS USED Subject Categories one to one discussion programmes (programme format) metroland (novel) Broadcast history 28 Jan 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 02 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Julian Barnes (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-08. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: June Whitfield | 19900429 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0018 Recorded on 1990-04-24 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 389158 Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: MARY WESLEY See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:The comedy actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' and Terry Scott. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 29 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 04 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) June Whitfield (Speaker) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: June Whitfield | 19900504 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0018 First broadcast on 1990-04-29 Recorded on 1990-04-24 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 389158 Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: MARY WESLEY See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:The comedy actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' and Terry Scott. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 29 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 04 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) June Whitfield (Speaker) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Kaffe Fassett | 19900701 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: PETER JONAS Previous in series: GEORGE CARMEN, QC Description SBH:The knitter and designer talks about his life and chooses eight recordings to take with him to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 01 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 29 Mar 1992 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Kaffe Fassett (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 547098. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0027 Recorded on 1990-06-26 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:The knitter and designer talks about his life and chooses eight recordings to take with him to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Kaffe Fassett | 19900706 | | First broadcast on 1990-07-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: PETER JONAS Previous in series: GEORGE CARMEN, QC Description SBH:The knitter and designer talks about his life and chooses eight recordings to take with him to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 01 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 29 Mar 1992 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Kaffe Fassett (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 547098. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0027 Recorded on 1990-06-26 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:The knitter and designer talks about his life and chooses eight recordings to take with him to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ken Dodd | 19900603 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MAEVE BINCHY Previous in series: David Blunkett M.P Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy and his enjoyment of performing. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 03 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 08 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Ken Dodd (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 441001. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0023 Recorded on 1990-06-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy and his enjoyment of performing. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ken Dodd | 19900608 | | First broadcast on 1990-06-03 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MAEVE BINCHY Previous in series: David Blunkett M.P Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy and his enjoyment of performing. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 03 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 08 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Ken Dodd (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 441001. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0023 Recorded on 1990-06-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The comedian talks about his life and career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy and his enjoyment of performing. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Annan | 19901104 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: BARBARA CASTLE Previous in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: academic, historian and public servant Lord Annan talks about his life and career and chooses his favourite music. Broadcast history 04 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 21 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jul 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Noel Annan (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 453936. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0045 Recorded on 1990-10-30 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Annan | 19901109 | | First broadcast on 1990-11-04 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: BARBARA CASTLE Previous in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: academic, historian and public servant Lord Annan talks about his life and career and chooses his favourite music. Broadcast history 04 Nov 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 21 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jul 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Noel Annan (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 453936. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0045 Recorded on 1990-10-30 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Charteris | 19900909 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0037 Recorded on 1990-07-19 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 502267 Next in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Previous in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Lord Charteris, private secretary to the Queen for over 20 years and now Provost of Eton, talks about his life and chooses music to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 09 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 31 Mar 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 05 Apr 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Martin Charteris Of Amisfield (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Lord Charteris, private secretary to the Queen for over 20 years and now Provost of Eton, talks about his life and chooses music to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Charteris | 19900914 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0037 First broadcast on 1990-09-09 Recorded on 1990-07-19 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 502267 Next in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Previous in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Lord Charteris, private secretary to the Queen for over 20 years and now Provost of Eton, talks about his life and chooses music to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 09 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 31 Mar 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 05 Apr 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Martin Charteris Of Amisfield (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Lord Charteris, private secretary to the Queen for over 20 years and now Provost of Eton, talks about his life and chooses music to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Weidenfeld | 19900128 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0005 Recorded on 1990-01-25 Media: T Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 386608 Next in series: SARAH MILES Previous in series: SIR ROBIN DAY See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desrt Island Discs - Lord WEIDENFELD, the publisher, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and chooses 8 discs to take to his desert island. Refs. to his childhood in Austria, coming to England in 1938, working for BBC Monitoring Service and his marriages. Book: 'Pickwick Papers'. Luxury: well-sprung armchair. Broadcast history 28 Jan 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Weidenfeld (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desrt Island Discs - Lord WEIDENFELD, the publisher, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and chooses 8 discs to take to his desert island. Refs. to his childhood in Austria, coming to England in 1938, working for BBC Monitoring Service and his marriages. Book: 'Pickwick Papers'. Luxury: well-sprung armchair. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Weidenfeld | 19900202 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0005 First broadcast on 1990-01-28 Recorded on 1990-01-25 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 386608 Next in series: SARAH MILES Previous in series: SIR ROBIN DAY See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desrt Island Discs - Lord WEIDENFELD, the publisher, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and chooses 8 discs to take to his desert island. Refs. to his childhood in Austria, coming to England in 1938, working for BBC Monitoring Service and his marriages. Book: 'Pickwick Papers'. Luxury: well-sprung armchair. Broadcast history 28 Jan 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) George Weidenfeld (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desrt Island Discs - Lord WEIDENFELD, the publisher, talks to Sue Lawley about his life and chooses 8 discs to take to his desert island. Refs. to his childhood in Austria, coming to England in 1938, working for BBC Monitoring Service and his marriages. Book: 'Pickwick Papers'. Luxury: well-sprung armchair. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lucinda Lambton | 19900408 | | First broadcast on 1989-10-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JACK LEMMON Previous in series: JOHN OGDON Description SBH:The passionate conservationist of British architectural heritage talks about her life and chooses eight recordings to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 01 Oct 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Oct 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 08 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Lucinda Lambton (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 405140. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lucinda Lambton | 19900413 | | First broadcast on 1989-10-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JACK LEMMON Previous in series: JOHN OGDON Description SBH:The passionate conservationist of British architectural heritage talks about her life and chooses eight recordings to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. Broadcast history 01 Oct 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 06 Oct 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 08 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Lucinda Lambton (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 405140. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0040 Recorded on 1989-07-12 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:The passionate conservationist of British architectural heritage talks about her life and chooses eight recordings to take to the mythical island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. A programme in the series Desert Island Discs. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lynda La Plante | 19950901 | | First broadcast on 1994-10-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: KATHLEEN HALE Previous in series: SIR GEORGE CHRISTIE Description 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 Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 23 Oct 1994 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 28 Oct 1994 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 01 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Lynda La Plante (Speaker) Recorded on 1994-10-04 Producer: O. SELIGMAN 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 |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maeve Binchy | 19900610 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0024 Recorded on 1990-06-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 459277 Next in series: HAROLD FIELDING Previous in series: KEN DODD See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Maeve BINCHY, the Irish writer, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 10 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Maeve Binchy (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Maeve BINCHY, the Irish writer, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maeve Binchy | 19900615 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0024 First broadcast on 1990-06-10 Recorded on 1990-06-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 459277 Next in series: HAROLD FIELDING Previous in series: KEN DODD See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Maeve BINCHY, the Irish writer, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 10 Jun 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 15 Jun 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Maeve Binchy (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Maeve BINCHY, the Irish writer, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and work, and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Margaret Tebbit | 19960105 | | First broadcast on 1995-12-31 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON Previous in series: PETULA CLARKE Description * Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 31 Dec 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 05 Jan 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 05 Jul 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Margaret Tebbit (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-12-01 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Mary Wesley | 19900422 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0017 Recorded on 1990-04-10 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 585128 Next in series: JUNE WHITFIELD Previous in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:DESERT ISLAND DISCS: The novelist Mary Wesley chooses the eight records she would take to the mystical desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Produced by Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 22 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Mary Wesley (Speaker). |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Mary Wesley | 19900427 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0017 First broadcast on 1990-04-22 Recorded on 1990-04-10 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 585128 Next in series: JUNE WHITFIELD Previous in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:DESERT ISLAND DISCS: The novelist Mary Wesley chooses the eight records she would take to the mystical desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Produced by Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 22 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Mary Wesley (Speaker). |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Mary Wesley | 19901209 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Mary Wesley | 19901214 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0017 First broadcast on 1990-04-22 Recorded on 1990-04-10 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 585128 Next in series: JUNE WHITFIELD Previous in series: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:DESERT ISLAND DISCS: The novelist Mary Wesley chooses the eight records she would take to the mystical desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Produced by Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 22 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 27 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 09 Dec 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 14 Dec 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Mary Wesley (Speaker) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maurice Saatchi | 19950924 | 19950929 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE TK DO NOT EDIT Next in series: JENNY PITMAN Previous in series: MAX NICHOLSON Description * Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 24 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 29 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Maurice Saatchi (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-07-04. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maurice Saatchi | 19950929 | | First broadcast on 1995-09-24 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: MASTER TAPE INDEXED BY SOUND ARCHIVE TK DO NOT EDIT Next in series: JENNY PITMAN Previous in series: MAX NICHOLSON Description * Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) Broadcast history 24 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 29 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Maurice Saatchi (Speaker) Recorded on 1995-07-04. Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Max Nicholson | 19950917 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MAURICE SAATCHI Previous in series: JOHN UPDIKE Broadcast history 17 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 22 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-07-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Max Nicholson | 19950922 | | First broadcast on 1995-09-17 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MAURICE SAATCHI Previous in series: JOHN UPDIKE Broadcast history 17 Sep 1995 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 22 Sep 1995 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1995-07-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Michael Tilson Thomas | 19900211 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN PILGER Previous in series: Sarah Miles Broadcast history 11 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-02-08. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0007 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Michael Tilson Thomas | 19900216 | | First broadcast on 1990-02-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN PILGER Previous in series: Sarah Miles Broadcast history 11 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-02-08. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0007 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Molly Keane | 19900513 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0020 Recorded on 1990-05-07 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 528357 Next in series: JONATHAN PRYCE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - the writer Molly KEANE talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 discs to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 13 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 18 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 28 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Molly Keane (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - the writer Molly KEANE talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 discs to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Molly Keane | 19900518 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0020 First broadcast on 1990-05-13 Recorded on 1990-05-07 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 528357 Next in series: JONATHAN PRYCE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - the writer Molly KEANE talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 discs to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 13 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 18 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 28 Jul 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Molly Keane (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - the writer Molly KEANE talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 discs to take to the mythical island. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Nicholas Snowman | 19901028 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0044 Recorded on 1990-10-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD ANNAN Previous in series: ERNIE WISE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Broadcast history 28 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Nicholas Snowman | 19901102 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0044 First broadcast on 1990-10-28 Recorded on 1990-10-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD ANNAN Previous in series: ERNIE WISE See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Broadcast history 28 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Peter Jonas | 19900708 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0028 Recorded on 1990-07-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JEAN ROOK Previous in series: KAFFE FASSETT See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description The castaway this week is Peter JONAS, of the English National Opera. He'll Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 08 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Peter Jonas (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN The castaway this week is Peter JONAS, of the English National Opera. He'll |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Peter Jonas | 19900713 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0028 First broadcast on 1990-07-08 Recorded on 1990-07-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JEAN ROOK Previous in series: KAFFE FASSETT See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description The castaway this week is Peter JONAS, of the English National Opera. He'll Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 08 Jul 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 13 Jul 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Peter Jonas (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN The castaway this week is Peter JONAS, of the English National Opera. He'll |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Prue Leith | 19900506 | | Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: June Whitfield Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: the restaurateur and cookery writer talks about her life and career and chooses her favourite music. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 06 May 1990 00:00-00:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Prue Leith (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 463104. Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MOLLY KEANE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH 06 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 11 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-05-03. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0019 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) BBC Programme Number: 46SX3104 SBH:Desert Island Discs: the restaurateur and cookery writer talks about her life and career and chooses her favourite music. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Prue Leith | 19900511 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0019 First broadcast on 1990-05-06 Recorded on 1990-05-03 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MOLLY KEANE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Broadcast history 06 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 11 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Producer: O. SELIGMAN |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Richard Rogers | 19900318 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN BIFFEN Previous in series: GEORGE PORTER Broadcast history 18 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 05 May 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 10 May 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-13. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0012 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Richard Rogers | 19900323 | | First broadcast on 1990-03-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JOHN BIFFEN Previous in series: GEORGE PORTER Broadcast history 18 Mar 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 23 Mar 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 05 May 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 10 May 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-03-13. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0012 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Robin Knox | 19900902 | | -JOHNSTON BBC Programme Number: 90HG0036 Recorded on 1990-07-17 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 337036 Next in series: LORD CHARTERIS Previous in series: JEAN ROOK See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Robin Knox-Johnston, round-the-world sailor, talks about his life and career. Ref. to his boat Suhaili. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 02 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 07 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Robin Knox-Johnston (Speaker) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Robin Knox-Johnston, round-the-world sailor, talks about his life and career. Ref. to his boat Suhaili. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Robin Knox | 19900907 | | -JOHNSTON First broadcast on 1990-09-02 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD CHARTERIS Previous in series: JEAN ROOK Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Robin Knox-Johnston, round-the-world sailor, talks about his life and career. Ref. to his boat Suhaili. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 02 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 07 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Robin Knox-Johnston (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 337036 BBC Programme Number: 90HG0036 Recorded on 1990-07-17 See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs - Robin Knox-Johnston, round-the-world sailor, talks about his life and career. Ref. to his boat Suhaili. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ruth Westheimer | 19900916 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Barbara Windsor Previous in series: LORD CHARTERIS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Dr. Ruth WESTHEIMER, the sex therapist, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Refs. to leaving Germany in 1939 after Hitler came to power, her radio and TV shows and her height (4'7"). Luxury: Maron Glacee. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 16 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 21 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Ruth Westheimer (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 438552. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0038 Recorded on 1990-06-07 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - Dr. Ruth WESTHEIMER, the sex therapist, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Refs. to leaving Germany in 1939 after Hitler came to power, her radio and TV shows and her height (4'7"). Luxury: Maron Glacee. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ruth Westheimer | 19900921 | | First broadcast on 1990-09-16 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Barbara Windsor Previous in series: LORD CHARTERIS Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Dr. Ruth WESTHEIMER, the sex therapist, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Refs. to leaving Germany in 1939 after Hitler came to power, her radio and TV shows and her height (4'7"). Luxury: Maron Glacee. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 16 Sep 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 21 Sep 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Ruth Westheimer (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 438552. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0038 Recorded on 1990-06-07 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - Dr. Ruth WESTHEIMER, the sex therapist, talks to Sue Lawley about her life and chooses 8 records to take to the mythical island. Refs. to leaving Germany in 1939 after Hitler came to power, her radio and TV shows and her height (4'7"). Luxury: Maron Glacee. Producer: Olivia Seligman. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sarah Miles | 19900204 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Previous in series: LORD WEIDENFELD Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean and marrying Robert Bolt twice. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 04 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 11 Aug 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Sarah Miles (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 397496. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0006 Recorded on 1990-01-30 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean and marrying Robert Bolt twice. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sarah Miles | 19900209 | | First broadcast on 1990-02-04 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Previous in series: LORD WEIDENFELD Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean and marrying Robert Bolt twice. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 04 Feb 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 09 Feb 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 11 Aug 1991 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Aug 1991 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Sarah Miles (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 397496. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0006 Recorded on 1990-01-30 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean and marrying Robert Bolt twice. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Seamus Heaney | 19900826 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Seamus Heaney | 19900831 | | First broadcast on 1989-11-19 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: REEL 2 MISSING NO COPY MADE Next in series: LADY MOSLEY Previous in series: MICHAEL CODRON Description This week's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry, Seamus Heaney. He talks Subject Categories profiles (programme format) personality request programmes (genre) music programmes (genre) Broadcast history 19 Nov 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 24 Nov 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 26 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 31 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Roy Plomley (Author) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Seamus Heaney (Speaker) Recorded on 1989-11-16. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0047 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) This week's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry, Seamus HEANEY. He talks |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900415 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Mary Wesley Previous in series: JOHN BIFFEN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 15 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 20 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 19 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 24 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Crispin Tickell (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 431928. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0016 Recorded on 1990-04-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900420 | | BBC Programme Number: 90HG0016 First broadcast on 1990-04-15 Recorded on 1990-04-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Notes: CAIRS 431928 Next in series: MARY WESLEY Previous in series: JOHN BIFFEN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 15 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 20 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 19 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 24 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Crispin Tickell (Speaker). Producer: O. SELIGMAN SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900819 | | |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900824 | | First broadcast on 1990-04-15 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Mary Wesley Previous in series: JOHN BIFFEN Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 15 Apr 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 20 Apr 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 19 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 24 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Crispin Tickell (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 431928. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0016 Recorded on 1990-04-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs: Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations talks about his life in the Diplomatic Service, and also about his fascination with climatic and environmental matters. Anecdote about being knighted whilst aboard Britannia. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Robin Day | 19900121 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD WEIDENFELD Previous in series: John Peel Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The broadcaster and political interviewer talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 21 Jan 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jan 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Robin Day (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408419. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0004 Recorded on 1990-01-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The broadcaster and political interviewer talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Media: T |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Robin Day | 19900126 | | First broadcast on 1990-01-21 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD WEIDENFELD Previous in series: John Peel Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The broadcaster and political interviewer talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 21 Jan 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 26 Jan 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Robin Day (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 408419. BBC Programme Number: 90HG0004 Recorded on 1990-01-18 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The broadcaster and political interviewer talks about his life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Media: T |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Roy Calne | 19960225 | | Producer: SELIGMAN, Olivia Next in series: SIR ROY CALNE Previous in series: GEORGE STEINER Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - Professor Sir Roy CALNE, surgeon and artist, talks to Sue Lawley about his work on kidney and liver transplants and his painting. Refs. to the NHS and his book 'Too Many People'. He chooses his 8 records to take to the mythical island. Luxury: paints and canvas. Producer: Olivia Seligman. Broadcast history 25 Feb 1996 00:00-00:00 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Olivia Seligman (Producer) Roy Calne (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 730631. Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: Gordon Brown MP Previous in series: SIR ROY CALNE 25 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 01 Mar 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1996-02-09. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Susan Hill | 19960211 | | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE STEINER Previous in series: EVE ARNOLD Description COMMERCIALS USED Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) i'm the king of the castle (fiction) sequels to novels rebecca (novel) mrs de winter (novel) Broadcast history 11 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 16 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Susan Hill (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-26. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Susan Hill | 19960216 | | First broadcast on 1996-02-11 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: GEORGE STEINER Previous in series: EVE ARNOLD Description COMMERCIALS USED Subject Categories personality request programmes (genre) i'm the king of the castle (fiction) sequels to novels rebecca (novel) mrs de winter (novel) Broadcast history 11 Feb 1996 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 16 Feb 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 16 Aug 1996 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley Olivia Seligman (Producer) Susan Hill (Speaker) Recorded on 1996-01-26. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Thora Hird | 19900812 | | First broadcast on 1989-05-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: NICHOLAS HENDERSON Previous in series: Lenny Henry Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to her TV series 'Praise Be' and her role in Alan Bennett's monologue 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 14 May 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 May 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 12 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 17 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Thora Hird (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 325721. |
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Thora Hird | 19900817 | | First broadcast on 1989-05-14 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: NICHOLAS HENDERSON Previous in series: Lenny Henry Description SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to her TV series 'Praise Be' and her role in Alan Bennett's monologue 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. Broadcast history 14 May 1989 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 19 May 1989 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) 12 Aug 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 17 Aug 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Contributors Sue Lawley (int) Thora Hird (Speaker) Notes: CAIRS 325721. BBC Programme Number: 89HG0020 Recorded on 1989-05-05 Producer: O. SELIGMAN See more DESERT ISLAND DISCS programmes (1949) SBH:Desert Island Discs - The actress talks about her life and work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to her TV series 'Praise Be' and her role in Alan Bennett's monologue 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee'. Interviewer: Sue Lawley. |
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| Quentin Blake | 20061001 | 20061006 | Kirsty Young invites illustrator Quentin Blake to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites illustrator Quentin Blake to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Kirsty Young invites illustrator Quentin Blake to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Raja Shehadeh | 20140615 | 20140620 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Palestinian author and human rights activist, Raja Shehadeh. Born in Ramallah in the West Bank, his life and writing has been dominated by displacement, struggle and a search for justice. His father was murdered in 1985 and aside from chronicling the unhappy history of his family and his homeland, he's also co-founded the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq - which monitors and documents violations by all sides in the Middle East conflict, publishing reports and detailed legal analysis on its findings. Amid the heavy weight of his work he somehow finds time to nurture a glorious garden growing grapevines and pomegranates. He says of his work, "When you write your thoughts and feelings and emotions... then you can move on to new ones. Otherwise, they will keep rotating in your mind and you will go in circles". 
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| Ralph Kohn | 20040321 | 20040326 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Ralph Kohn, head of a major pharmaceutical company and a baritone singer. |
| Randy Newman | 20081019 | 20081024 | Kirsty Young invites the singer-songwriter Randy Newman to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Ray Mears | 20140105 | 20140110 | Kirsty Young's castaway is woodsman Ray Mears. A traveller to the world's remotest corners and a renowned expert in bushcraft, wild cooking and survival techniques, he's one of very few castaways who would genuinely relish the challenges of a desert island. Those of us not possessed of his spirit and skill can live vicariously through his exploits on TV and through his survival handbooks. Enlightening and entertaining the sofa-bound masses is only one strand on his hand whittled bow: he's also trained elite troops for The British Army and in 2010 he was called on by police to help them track the fugitive killer, Raoul Moat. It was survival skills of a different type he needed when he lost his first wife Rachel to cancer: he met his second wife Ruth at a book signing and they share not just a love of each other, but also of the great outdoors. He says of the wild: "I can see nature; I feel it intuitively and I can understand what can't be written." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Ray Winstone | 20141228 | 20150102 (R4) | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor Ray Winstone. Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast, Vincent, The Sweeney - he's probably best known for totally authentic tough-guy, geezer-parts. But his work has more range and nuance, encompassing roles as varied as Henry VIII, Magwich in Great Expectations and the lead in Beowulf. Beyond the screen the man himself almost seems to come from a bygone era, when a fellow worth his salt always wore a dapper three piece suit and was handy with his fists. In his youth as a boxer he won 80 of his 88 fights and it seemed for a while that a whiff of menace had followed him out of the ring and onto the streets. However he says, "I'm not like the geezers I play: loads of things scare me in everyday life but you have to hide a bit and put on a front. I cry at movies, I cry at scripts, I cried when West Ham got back into the Premiership - I'm even frightened of spiders." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young talks to actor Ray Winstone. 
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| Raymond Briggs | 20050320 | 20050325 | 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 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 Sue Lawley invites the illustrator and author Raymond Briggs to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] |
| Raymond Tallis | 20070325 | 20070330 | physician, philosopher, poet and novelist Prof Raymond Tallis. Kirsty Young invites physician, philosopher, poet and novelist Prof Raymond Tallis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites physician, philosopher, poet and novelist Professor Raymond Tallis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Rebecca Adlington | 20150614 | 20150619 (R4) | , swimmer and Olympic gold medallist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Producer: Sarah Taylor. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Rebecca Adlington - Britain's most successful female swimmer. A multiple medal winner and record breaker she's packed a lot in at a young age, first grabbing the nation's attention by winning two golds at the Beijing Olympics and breaking a world record into the bargain. When she got back home she was granted the Freedom of Mansfield and the Mayor gave her a pair of golden shoes. The Queen opted for the more conventional approach, bestowing an OBE. She went on to win two more medals at the London 2012 Olympics and when all the cheering and flag waving had died down and the games were over she announced her retirement. She's hardly been a slouch since - appearing regularly on TV, getting married and in recent months getting ready for the birth of her first child, a daughter, who was born Monday 8, June, 2015. She's only 26. One of three sisters, family life was dominated by early morning training session at the local pool and it wasn't long before little Becky was out of the shallow end and heading for the fast lane... The Sherwood Baths are now renamed The Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre. 
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| Rene Redzepi | 20140525 | 20140530 | Kirsty Young talks to Danish chef Rene Redzepi. 
Rene Redzepi, Danish chef, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. His restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen has been named 'best in the world' for a fourth time, and holds two Michelin stars. His cooking captures not just the essence of his homeland - using ingredients like reindeer tongue, sea buckthorn or fish scales - but also a strong flavour of 'now'. He believes traditional notions of luxury are outdated. A sense of 'time and place' are his kitchen's guiding principles. His childhood was split between Denmark and Macedonia, where he spent his summers foraging in the woods. He as good as stumbled into catering, because he couldn't think of anything better to do, but pretty quickly realised that cooking allowed him to dream. He says, "The day when there is no more to do is the day when you're burned out. There are endless possibilities - it's just whether you can see them or not... and right now I see plenty.". |
| Renée Fleming | 20051118 | | Sue Lawley invites the opera singer Renée Fleming to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. |
| Reverend Rose Hudson-wilkin | 20140119 | 20140124 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin. The first black woman to be chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and also to the Speaker of the House of Commons, she's also kept busy with her work in less rarefied surroundings - ministering to two churches in the east London borough of Hackney. It's all a long way from the crystal waters and swaying palms of her birthplace, Montego Bay, where brought up by her Auntie Pet she coped with poverty and separation from her mother. She did however have a sense, from the age of just 14, that her future lay in faith. She wasn't wrong and the combination of her belief and dynamism has taken her to as close to the top as The Church of England will currently allow. If they do eventually permit women bishops it's easy to imagine she'd be a shoe in. She says "Oh I have lots of ambition. You can't be Jamaican and not be ambitious. My ambition is to enjoy life. My ambition is to do everything I do to the best of my ability." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Richard Madeley | 20090313 | | Kirsty Young invites broadcaster Richard Madeley to choose eight records. |
| Richard Madeley * | 20090308 | 20090313 | Kirsty Young invites broadcaster Richard Madeley to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites broadcaster Richard Madeley to choose eight records. |
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| Rick Wakeman | 20170616 | | , musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
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| Rob Brydon | 20100516 | 20100521 | The comedian and actor Rob Brydon joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. Growing up in Port Talbot, South Wales, he discovered performing when he was a teenager and says he came alive when he was on stage: so much so that he left school with only a couple of O Levels. For years, he made a comfortable but unfulfilling living recording voice-overs and working on a television shopping channel. He always dreamed of working in comedy, though, and eventually it was 'Marion and Geoff' and then 'Gavin and Stacey' that made him a household name. Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Rob Brydon |
| Rob Brydon | 20100521 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Rob Brydon. |
| Robert Hardy | 20111120 | 20111125 | Kirsty Young talks to actor Robert Hardy. Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Robert Hardy. He became a household name as the vet Siegfried Farnon in the hit TV series All Creatures Great and Small and, to a younger generation, he is the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter films. But the role he is best known for is Winston Churchill - he won a Bafta for his performance in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He believes actors are born rather than made and his own ambitions crystallised when, as a very young boy, he was a page boy at a wedding: "I walked down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, "That's it, get every eye on you". Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor Robert Hardy is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Robert Hardy | 20111125 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Robert Hardy. He became a household name as the vet Siegfried Farnon in the hit TV series All Creatures Great and Small and, to a younger generation, he is the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter films. But the role he is best known for is Winston Churchill - he won a Bafta for his performance in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He believes actors are born rather than made and his own ambitions crystallised when, as a very young boy, he was a page boy at a wedding: "I walked down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, "That's it, get every eye on you". Producer: Leanne Buckle. Actor Robert Hardy is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. |
| Robert Harris | 20101128 | 20101203 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the best-selling writer Robert Harris. He was, apparently, a political junkie from a young age; he was just six when he wrote the essay: 'Why me and my dad don't like Sir Alec Douglas Home' and he also had an early realisation that he wanted to grow up to be a writer. His first novel - Fatherland - imagined a world after the Nazis had won World War II. It sold more than three million copies and made him a household name. "I can remember I wrote the opening sentence and I practically had to go and lie down afterwards," he said, "the possibilities of it - and the feeling that I'd finally arrived at what I wanted to do - it was overwhelming.". Writer Robert Harris joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. Record: Every Day I write the book - Elvis Costello Book: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Luxury: A nightly fragrant bath. He was, apparently, a political junkie from a young age; he was just six when he wrote the essay: 'Why me and my dad don't like Sir Alec Douglas Home' and he also had an early realisation that he wanted to grow up to be a writer. His first novel - Fatherland - imagined a world after the Nazis had won World War II. It sold more than three million copies and made him a household name. "I can remember I wrote the opening sentence and I practically had to go and lie down afterwards," he said, "the possibilities of it - and the feeling that I'd finally arrived at what I wanted to do - it was overwhelming.". |
| Robert Harris | 20101203 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is the best-selling writer Robert Harris. He was, apparently, a political junkie from a young age; he was just six when he wrote the essay: 'Why me and my dad don't like Sir Alec Douglas Home' and he also had an early realisation that he wanted to grow up to be a writer. His first novel - Fatherland - imagined a world after the Nazis had won World War II. It sold more than three million copies and made him a household name. "I can remember I wrote the opening sentence and I practically had to go and lie down afterwards," he said, "the possibilities of it - and the feeling that I'd finally arrived at what I wanted to do - it was overwhelming." Record: Every Day I write the book - Elvis Costello Book: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Luxury: A nightly fragrant bath. Writer Robert Harris joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. |
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| Roberto Alagna | 20090821 | | Kirsty Young's castaway is Italian singer Roberto Alagna. |
| Roberto Alagna * * | 20090816 | 20090821 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna. He is one of the most celebrated tenors in the world and one half of opera's golden couple; his wife is the soprano Angela Gheorghiu. Yet, his is not a voice that was honed through early years in a conservatoire. He was brought up in Paris in a family of keen amateur musicians. He used to sing in nightclubs and in those early years, he says, the world of opera was, to him, no more than an impossible dream. |
| Robin Millar | 20150315 | 20150320 (R4) | Kirsty Young's guest is record producer Robin Millar. Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the record producer, Robin Millar. One of the UK's most successful record producers with over 160 gold, silver and platinum discs, he has over forty-four number one records to his credit. His 1984 production of Sade's debut album, 'Diamond Life', was named one of the best ten albums of the last thirty years at the 2010 Brit Awards. He experienced problems with his eyesight from birth, especially in the dark, and had tunnel vision. Aged 16, a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa was confirmed and he was told that he would eventually lose his sight completely. On leaving school he studied law at Cambridge before becoming a music producer. The production of Sade's second album coincided with the loss of his remaining sight. In 2012 he underwent a retina implant which gave him some sight but the success was brief and later his body rejected it. He works with a number of charities, mentors young musicians and was given a CBE for services to music in 2010. Producer: Cathy Drysdale. 
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| Roger Graef | 20141026 | 20141031 (R4) | Kirsty Young's guest is filmmaker and criminologist, Roger Graef. Pioneering in his chosen subjects and style, for the past fifty years he has shone a spotlight on hitherto hidden areas of society and influenced the entire genre of modern day documentary making. His films on key institutions like the Police have not just helped change attitudes but policy too. A New Yorker and Harvard graduate, he first came to Britain to study Shakespeare: his London debut as a theatre director was a Tennessee Williams' play. He soon realised that the drama and storylines of real life were where his heart and talents lay. He says, "What I want on my gravestone is 'Here Lies Roger Graef - he made a difference...' and people are telling me that I have. But I don't think about it because there's so much left to do." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. |
| Roger Waters | 20110529 | 20110603 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the musician Roger Waters. As one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, he has seen huge critical and commercial success. But in 1985 he walked away from the group and years of acrimony followed. They were reunited for one final performance, twenty years later, for Live 8. It was a moment many of their fans thought they would not live to see and it was, he says, highly emotional. "We did a run through on the Friday night and it was remarkable, there were about fifty or sixty people working on the site, putting out rubbish bins or whatever it was they were doing and they all stopped and at the end they all applauded - that was a very moving moment." Producer: Leanne Buckle. Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. As one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, he has seen huge critical and commercial success. But in 1985 he walked away from the group and years of acrimony followed. They were reunited for one final performance, twenty years later, for Live 8. It was a moment many of their fans thought they would not live to see and it was, he says, highly emotional. |
| Roger Waters | 20110603 | | Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. |
| Rt Hon Ed Miliband | 20131124 | 20131129 | MP, Leader of the Labour Party, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. He's been in charge of his party for three years and was the youngest leader they'd ever elected. But that fact got somewhat lost in the drama that surrounded his coronation: famously, he stood against his brother, David. To say the younger brother's victory upset the political apple cart would be something of an understatement. Politics is in his pores. His mother was a human rights campaigner, his father a renowned Marxist academic. Both parents came from Jewish families who settled in Britain having only just survived the Nazis. Looking though his CV - clever comprehensive schoolboy, degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, an intern for Tony Benn, Economics lecturer at Harvard, Special Advisor to Gordon Brown - it's clear, for him, there's only ever been one abiding passion. He says, politics "is not something I chose. It's not something I learned from books, even from my Dad's books. It was something I was born into." Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kirsty Young interviews the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, le |