Doctor Who At 60 [Desert Island Discs Revisited]

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Billie Piper

20231112

20231113 (BBC7)

Billie Piper is castaway on a desert island by Lauren Laverne.

Billie is an Olivier Award winning actor and former pop star.

She was born in Swindon in September 1982, and her parents nurtured her interests in dance and drama from a young age.

After a winning a scholarship to study at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, she moved to London as a young teenager, leaving the family home. By the age of 15, she was a full time pop star. She became the youngest female artist ever to go straight to number one in the UK charts when her debut single was a hit in 1998.

Just three years later, after releasing more successful singles and two albums and touring furiously to promote them, Billie left the music industry. She married the DJ Chris Evans, and found herself the frequent subject of newspaper stories.

She decided to turn to acting, her first love, and by 2005 she was back in the spotlight playing Rose Tyler in the BBC's revival of Doctor Who.

Since then she has taken on a wide range of acclaimed screen and stage roles, most notably picking up all six available awards for Best Actress including the Olivier Award when she starred in a new version of Lorca's play Yerma. Her recent TV series I Hate Suzy, which she co-created, has been BAFTA nominated and she has also written and directed her first film, Rare Beasts.

DISC ONE: Pure Imagination by Gene Wilder

DISC TWO: This Must Be the Place (Nave Melody) by Talking Heads

DISC THREE: Sara by Fleetwood Mac

DISC FOUR: Out of Space by The Prodigy

DISC FIVE: Champagne Supernova by Oasis

DISC SIX: Turn The Page by The Streets

DISC SEVEN: Halo by Beyonc退

DISC EIGHT: Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G

BOOK CHOICE: The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

LUXURY ITEM: Billie's children's art work

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Champagne Supernova by Oasis

Producer: Sarah Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2021.

Actor Billie Piper is castaway by Lauren Laverne.

From Gene Wilder to Oasis. Actor Billie Piper shares her castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. From 2021.

David Tennant

20231105

20231106 (BBC7)

Actor David Tennant is castaway on a desert island by Kirsty Young.

He has been voted the best Doctor 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.

DISC ONE: Over and Done With - The Proclaimers

DISC TWO: Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

DISC THREE: Me and the Farmer - The Housemartins

DISC FOUR: Dignity - Deacon Blue

DISC FIVE: The Starship Enterprise - Eddie Izzard

DISC SIX: Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs

DISC SEVEN: White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin

DISC EIGHT: Greetings to the New Brunette - Billy Bragg

BOOK CHOICE: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust

LUXURY CHOICE: A solar DVD player loaded with the seven series of the West Wing

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin

Producer: Leanne Buckle

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.

From Billy Bragg to The Proclaimers. Actor David Tennant makes his music choices

From Billy Bragg to The Proclaimers. Actor David Tennant shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2009.

Matt Smith

20231126

20231127 (BBC7)

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.

DISC ONE: Roll With It - Oasis

DISC TWO: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

DISC THREE: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye

DISC FOUR: For An Angel (E-Werk Club Mix) - Paul van Dyk (featuring Rachel McFarlane)

DISC FIVE: Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire

DISC SIX: Juicy (Radio Edit) - The Notorious B.I.G.

DISC SEVEN: Giacomo Puccini's Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Herbert Adler

DISC EIGHT: All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem

BOOK CHOICE: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

LUXURY CHOICE: Endless supply of English Breakfast Tea

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

Presenter: Kirsty Young

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broacast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

Actor Matt Smith is castaway by Kirsty Young.

From Marvin Gaye to Pink Floyd. Actor Matt Smith shares his castaway music choices with Kirsty Young. From March 2018.

Russell T Davies

20231119

20231120 (BBC7)

Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne.

Russell is one of the UK's most successful TV writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in TV began in the children's department at the BBC.

His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.

A lifelong Doctor Who fan, he relaunched the series in 2005 for a new generation of viewers. Such was its success, he found himself working around the clock.

More recently, he wrote the highly-acclaimed series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, and the dystopian drama Years and Years.

DISC ONE: Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska - Sugar Mountain

DISC TWO: Hora Staccato (1950 version) performed by Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Bay

DISC THREE: The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels on My Wagon -

DISC FOUR: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis, performed by The Norman Scribner Choir

DISC FIVE: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

DISC SIX: The OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix)

DISC SEVEN: Neil Hannon - Song For Ten

DISC EIGHT: Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

BOOK CHOICE: Asterix and the Roman Agent by by Ren退 Goscinny with illustrations by Albert Uderzo

LUXURY ITEM: A black Ball Pentol Pen

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis

Presenter: Lauren Laverne

Producer: Sarah Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

Screenwriter Russell T Davies is castaway by Lauren Laverne.

From Kate Bush to Leonard Bernstein. Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. From 2019.

Episodes

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Billie Piper	20231112	20231113 (BBC7)	Billie Piper is castaway on a desert island by Lauren Laverne. Billie is an Olivier Award winning actor and former pop star. She was born in Swindon in September 1982, and her parents nurtured her interests in dance and drama from a young age. After a winning a scholarship to study at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, she moved to London as a young teenager, leaving the family home. By the age of 15, she was a full time pop star. She became the youngest female artist ever to go straight to number one in the UK charts when her debut single was a hit in 1998. Just three years later, after releasing more successful singles and two albums and touring furiously to promote them, Billie left the music industry. She married the DJ Chris Evans, and found herself the frequent subject of newspaper stories. She decided to turn to acting, her first love, and by 2005 she was back in the spotlight playing Rose Tyler in the BBC's revival of Doctor Who. Since then she has taken on a wide range of acclaimed screen and stage roles, most notably picking up all six available awards for Best Actress including the Olivier Award when she starred in a new version of Lorca's play Yerma. Her recent TV series I Hate Suzy, which she co-created, has been BAFTA nominated and she has also written and directed her first film, Rare Beasts. DISC ONE: Pure Imagination by Gene Wilder DISC TWO: This Must Be the Place (Nave Melody) by Talking Heads DISC THREE: Sara by Fleetwood Mac DISC FOUR: Out of Space by The Prodigy DISC FIVE: Champagne Supernova by Oasis DISC SIX: Turn The Page by The Streets DISC SEVEN: Halo by Beyonc退 DISC EIGHT: Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G BOOK CHOICE: The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy LUXURY ITEM: Billie's children's art work CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Champagne Supernova by Oasis Producer: Sarah Taylor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2021. Actor Billie Piper is castaway by Lauren Laverne. From Gene Wilder to Oasis. Actor Billie Piper shares her castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. From 2021.
David Tennant	20231105	20231106 (BBC7)	Actor David Tennant is castaway on a desert island by Kirsty Young. He has been voted the best Doctor 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. DISC ONE: Over and Done With - The Proclaimers DISC TWO: Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello DISC THREE: Me and the Farmer - The Housemartins DISC FOUR: Dignity - Deacon Blue DISC FIVE: The Starship Enterprise - Eddie Izzard DISC SIX: Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs DISC SEVEN: White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin DISC EIGHT: Greetings to the New Brunette - Billy Bragg BOOK CHOICE: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust LUXURY CHOICE: A solar DVD player loaded with the seven series of the West Wing CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin Producer: Leanne Buckle First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. From Billy Bragg to The Proclaimers. Actor David Tennant makes his music choices From Billy Bragg to The Proclaimers. Actor David Tennant shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2009.
Matt Smith	20231126	20231127 (BBC7)	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. DISC ONE: Roll With It - Oasis DISC TWO: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd DISC THREE: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye DISC FOUR: For An Angel (E-Werk Club Mix) - Paul van Dyk (featuring Rachel McFarlane) DISC FIVE: Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire DISC SIX: Juicy (Radio Edit) - The Notorious B.I.G. DISC SEVEN: Giacomo Puccini's Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Herbert Adler DISC EIGHT: All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem BOOK CHOICE: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes LUXURY CHOICE: Endless supply of English Breakfast Tea CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale First broacast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018. Actor Matt Smith is castaway by Kirsty Young. From Marvin Gaye to Pink Floyd. Actor Matt Smith shares his castaway music choices with Kirsty Young. From March 2018.
Russell T Davies	20231119	20231120 (BBC7)	Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. Russell is one of the UK's most successful TV writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in TV began in the children's department at the BBC. His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999. A lifelong Doctor Who fan, he relaunched the series in 2005 for a new generation of viewers. Such was its success, he found himself working around the clock. More recently, he wrote the highly-acclaimed series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, and the dystopian drama Years and Years. DISC ONE: Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska - Sugar Mountain DISC TWO: Hora Staccato (1950 version) performed by Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Bay DISC THREE: The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels on My Wagon - DISC FOUR: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis, performed by The Norman Scribner Choir DISC FIVE: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights DISC SIX: The OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix) DISC SEVEN: Neil Hannon - Song For Ten DISC EIGHT: Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky BOOK CHOICE: Asterix and the Roman Agent by by Ren退 Goscinny with illustrations by Albert Uderzo LUXURY ITEM: A black Ball Pentol Pen CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Sarah Taylor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Screenwriter Russell T Davies is castaway by Lauren Laverne. From Kate Bush to Leonard Bernstein. Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne. From 2019.