Desert Island Discs
First broadcast from 19671021 to 20100319.
- Due to copyright reason this programme is not available on Listen Again - however for a while you could hear it be creating a URL which went to the broadcast time rather than the programme name.
440 episodes
| Series | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6M | John Peel | 20071024 | A rare chance to hear the great DJ's Desert Island Discs interview with Sue Lawley in 1990. | |
| Sir Denis Brogan | 19671021 | |||
| Irene Worth | 19671118 | |||
| Jacques Loussier | 19671125 | |||
| Gladys Cooper | 19671223 | |||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: john Peel | 19900114 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SIR ROBIN DAY Previous in series: DENNIS SKINNER Description SBH:Disc jockey interviewed on his life & career & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: john Peel | 19900119 | 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 & career & 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. | ||
| 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 & political interviewer talks about his life & 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. | ||
| 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 & political interviewer talks about his life & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Weidenfeld | 19900128 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SARAH MILES Previous in series: SIR ROBIN DAY 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) Notes: CAIRS 386608. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Weidenfeld | 19900202 | First broadcast on 1990-01-28 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: SARAH MILES Previous in series: SIR ROBIN DAY 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) Notes: CAIRS 386608. | ||
| 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 & chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean & 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. | ||
| 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 & chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to being expelled from Roedean & 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy & 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy & 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation & 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. example of an improvisation & 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: 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: George Porter | 19900316 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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' & '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' & '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: 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900420 | 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 | 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: 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' & 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to 'Take It From Here', 'The Glums' & 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: Prue Leith | 19900506 | Next in series: PRUE LEITH Previous in series: June Whitfield Description SBH:Desert Island Discs: the restaurateur & cookery writer talks about her life & career & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Prue Leith | 19900511 | First broadcast on 1990-05-06 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: MOLLY KEANE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH Broadcast history 06 May 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 11 May 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-05-03. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Molly Keane | 19900513 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JONATHAN PRYCE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH 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) Notes: CAIRS 528357. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Molly Keane | 19900518 | First broadcast on 1990-05-13 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JONATHAN PRYCE Previous in series: PRUE LEITH 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) Notes: CAIRS 528357. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' & 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to playing Hamlet shortly after his father had died, 'Miss Saigon' & 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: 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 & career & chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness & 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. | ||
| 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 & career & chooses his 8 favourite records. Particular ref. to his blindness & 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. | ||
| 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy & 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. | ||
| 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his interest in the art of comedy & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maeve Binchy | 19900610 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: HAROLD FIELDING Previous in series: KEN DODD 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) Notes: CAIRS 459277. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maeve Binchy | 19900615 | First broadcast on 1990-06-10 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: HAROLD FIELDING Previous in series: KEN DODD 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) Notes: CAIRS 459277. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe & 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. | ||
| 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to representing Jeremy Thorpe & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Kaffe Fassett | 19900701 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: PETER JONAS Previous in series: GEORGE CARMEN, QC Description SBH:The knitter & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Peter Jonas | 19900708 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JEAN ROOK Previous in series: KAFFE FASSETT 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) Recorded on 1990-07-05. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Peter Jonas | 19900713 | First broadcast on 1990-07-08 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: JEAN ROOK Previous in series: KAFFE FASSETT 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) Recorded on 1990-07-05. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer & 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to Derek Jameson, Eric Morley, to suffering from breast cancer & 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. | ||
| 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to acting with Bette Davis & 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 & career and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. ref. to acting with Bette Davis & 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: 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 & career & 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 & career & 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: George Porter | 19900805 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to her TV series 'Praise Be' & 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to her TV series 'Praise Be' & 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: Sir Crispin Tickell | 19900819 | 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Seamus Heaney | 19900826 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Robin Knox | 19900902 | -JOHNSTON 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Charteris | 19900909 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Previous in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON 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) Notes: CAIRS 502267. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Lord Charteris | 19900914 | First broadcast on 1990-09-09 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: RUTH WESTHEIMER Previous in series: ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON 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) Notes: CAIRS 502267. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & England footballer, talks about his life & 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. | ||
| 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 & England footballer, talks about his life & 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse & 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. | ||
| 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 & work and chooses 8 records to take to a desert island. Incl. refs. to his wife Sheila Hancock and his roles in Inspector Morse & 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. | ||
| 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 & career & 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. | ||
| 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 & career & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ernie Wise | 19901021 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Previous in series: CLIVE JENKINS 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) Notes: CAIRS 653728. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Ernie Wise | 19901026 | First broadcast on 1990-10-21 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: NICHOLAS SNOWMAN Previous in series: CLIVE JENKINS 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) Notes: CAIRS 653728. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Nicholas Snowman | 19901028 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD ANNAN Previous in series: ERNIE WISE Broadcast history 28 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-10-18. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Nicholas Snowman | 19901102 | First broadcast on 1990-10-28 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD ANNAN Previous in series: ERNIE WISE Broadcast history 28 Oct 1990 12:15-12:55 (RADIO 4) 02 Nov 1990 09:05-09:45 (RADIO 4) Recorded on 1990-10-18. | ||
| 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 & public servant Lord Annan talks about his life & career & 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. | ||
| 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 & public servant Lord Annan talks about his life & career & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| 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 & 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Elizabeth Welch | 19901118 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Baroness Trumpington | 19901125 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Eduardo Paolozzi | 19901202 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: mary Wesley | 19901209 | 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: 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: Duchess Of Kent | 19901216 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Brian Keenan | 19901223 | Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD GOODMAN Previous in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI 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) Notes: CAIRS 378763. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Brian Keenan | 19901228 | First broadcast on 1990-12-23 Producer: O. SELIGMAN Next in series: LORD GOODMAN Previous in series: EDUARDO PAOLOZZI 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) Notes: CAIRS 378763. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Maurice Saatchi | 19950924 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Christopher Hampton | 19960107 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Jimmy Mcgovern | 19960114 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Chili Bouchier | 19960121 | 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Programme Catalogue - Details: Julian Barnes | 19960128 | 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 & career & 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 & career & 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: 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. | ||
| Clarissa Dickson Wright | 19991121 | |||
| 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. | ||
| nick Hornby | 20030928 | |||
| Pat Barker | 20031114 | Sue Lawley talks to Booker prize-winning novelist Pat Barker, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Henry Blofeld | 20031130 | 20031207 | Sue Lawley's castaway is cricket commentator Henry Blofeld. | |
| Sir Nicholas Grimshaw | 20031214 | 20031219 | Sue Lawley's castaway is ARCHITECT Nicholas Grimshaw. [Rpt of Sun, 11.15am] / Sue Lawley's castaway is the ARCHITECT behind the Eden Project Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri, 9.00am] | |
| Emmylou Harris | 20031221 | 20031225 | Sue Lawley's castaway is the country rock singer Emmylou Harris. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. 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] | |
| 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. 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. [Rpt of Sun 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. | |
| Paul O'grady | 20031228 | 20040102 | Sue Lawley's castaway is the country rock singer Emmylou Harris. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. 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. [Rpt of Sun 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. | |
| 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. [Rptd Fri, 9.00am] | |
| Jimmy Tarbuck | 20040111 | 20040116 | Sue Lawley invites the entertainer Jimmy Tarbuck to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Stephen Frears | 20040118 | 20040123 | Sue Lawley invites film director Stephen Frears to choose the eight records he would take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Sister Frances Dominica | 20040208 | 20040213 | This week Sue Lawley's castaway is a nun and a pioneer of the hospice movement. Sister FRANCEs Dominica says she had always felt she was born to be a nurse and as a child would line up her dolls and teddies in pretend hospital beds and tend to them. But a dramatic revelation during her early twenties diverted her and, to the horror of her family, she abandoned her career for a contemplative life. She took her life vows in 1972 and in 1977, at the incredibly young age of 34, was elected to be the mother superior of her community. The following year she met a family with a sick child and offered to give her respite care. It was that relationship which gave Sister FRANCEs the idea of starting a children's hospice and, in 1982, Helen House opened - it was the first children's hospice in the world. [Rpt of Sun, 11.15am] / This week Sue Lawley's castaway is a nun and a pioneer of the hospice movement. Sister FRANCEs Dominica says she had always felt she was born to be a nurse and as a child would line up her dolls and teddies in pretend hospital beds and tend to them. But a dramatic revelation during her early twenties diverted her and, to the horror of her family, she abandoned her career for a contemplative life. She took her life vows in 1972 and in 1977, at the incredibly young age of 34, was elected to be the mother superior of her community. The following year she met a family with a sick child and offered to give her respite care. It was that relationship which gave Sister FRANCEs the idea of starting a children's hospice and, in 1982, Helen House opened - it was the first children's hospice in the world. [Rpt of Sun, 11.15am] / This week Sue Lawley's castaway is a nun and a pioneer of the hospice movement. Sister FRANCEs Dominica says she had always felt she was born to be a nurse and as a child would line up her dolls and teddies in pretend hospital beds and tend to them. But a dramatic revelation during her early twenties diverted her and, to the horror of her family, she abandoned her career for a contemplative life. She took her life vows in 1972 and in 1977, at the incredibly young age of 34, was elected to be the mother superior of her community. The following year she met a family with a sick child and offered to give her respite care. It was that relationship which gave Sister FRANCEs the idea of starting a children's hospice and, in 1982, Helen House opened - it was the first children's hospice in the world. | |
| Sacha Distel | 20040215 | 20040220 | Sue Lawley's castaway is one of FRANCE's best known exports, the singer Sacha Distel. Born into a loving family in 1930s PARIS, Sacha's love of music was instilled in him at a young age by his mother. During the war years, Sacha was sent to a Catholic college in the French countryside while his father was in hiding and his mother was interned in a Nazi camp. After the war they were reunited but Sacha says that the experience has left him with a lasting sense of insecurity. Sacha was increasingly drawn to the guitar, encouraged by his uncle, the jazz band leader Ray Ventura. He soon demonstrated enormous talent for the instrument and played with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. However, it was his affair with, and subsequent engagement to, Brigitte Bardot that catapulted him to international fame. The liaison failed but he was to go on to become a household name both here and in FRANCE. Now about to turn 71, Sacha is still touring and has a new CD coming out. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] 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. 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 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. 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. | |
| Sir Gulam Noon | 20040307 | 20040312 | As a boy, growing up in Bombay, it was cricket that was Sir Gulam Noon's obsession. But after his father's death when he was still a child, his family became increasingly concerned about the precarious financial state of their two sweet shops. Gulam started working in them as a teenager and showed a keen entrepreneurial flair. By his mid-20s, the shops were secure and his family well-off and he was determined to try to recreate his success in the UK. He started out making and selling INDIAn sweets, but as curry houses became more popular, saw a new market for authentic INDIAn food on the supermarket shelves. He now runs Europe's largest curry factory and sells hundreds of thousands of ready meals each day. With chicken tikka massala now established as the national dish, it's no surprise to learn that it's his biggest seller too. Hear his Desert Island Discs with Sue Lawley. | |
| 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. | |
| Ralph Kohn | 20040321 | 20040326 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is Ralph Kohn, head of a major pharmaceutical company and a baritone singer. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Michael Morpurgo | 20040411 | 20040416 | 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. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Antonio Pappano | 20040425 | 20040430 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is pianist and conductor Antonio Pappano. | |
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | |
| U A Fanthorpe | 20040509 | 20040514 | Sue Lawley talks to the poet U.A. Fanthorpe. She chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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] | |
| Pen Hadow | 20040516 | 20040521 | Sue Lawley talks to the explorer Pen Hadow. | |
| Sir Ken Adam | 20040523 | 20040528 | Sue Lawley talks to Sir Ken Adam who is the man who's designed some of the most famous film sets ever made. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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. | |
| Karan Billimoria | 20040613 | 20040618 | Sue Lawley talks to the businessman Karan Billimoria. | |
| Diana Athill | 20040620 | 20040625 | Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill. | |
| Tim Rice | 20040627 | 20040702 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is lyricist Tim Rice. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | |
| 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 & the Pacemakers Composer Rogers & Hammerstein Publisher See for Miles CD Title Gerry & 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 & 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 & M records CD Title (Everything I do) I Do It for You Label A & 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. | |
| Hugh Masekela | 20040711 | 20040716 | ||
| 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. | |
| mark Tully | 20040725 | |||
| Emmylou Harris. | 20040730 | |||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| Virginia Mckenna | 20040926 | 20041001 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the wildlife campaigner and actress Virginia McKenna, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | |
| Desmond Morris | 20041003 | 20041008 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is zoologist Desmond Morris, who chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | |
| Anne Scott James | 20041010 | 20041015 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is journalist and writer Anne Scott James. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | |
| Sir Menzies Campbell | 20041017 | 20041022 | Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sir Menzies Campbell MP the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | |
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] Sue Lawley's guest this week is the poet Jack Mapanje. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | |
| 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. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
| Matthew Bourne | 20041119 | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the choreographer Matthew Bourne. He chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | ||
| 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. | |
| Tracey Emin | 20041128 | 20041203 | is one of the most successful and controversial artists to emerge during the 1990s, her work was championed early on by influential art dealer Jay Jopling and later by the collector Charles Saatchi. Her work is highly autobiographical and confessional - she is a talented drawer and painter, but has attracted the most attention for her art installations - including her tent, Everyone I have ever slept with and the Turner Prize-nominated My Bed. Her art is adored and condemned in equal measure - but wherever she exhibits she attracts queues and has a room at Tate Britain dedicated to her work. She was brought up in Margate and she has recently finished a film, Top Spot, which reflects her own experiences. 1.Riding for a Fall Performer John Holt Composer Townsend/Waller CD Title Pledging my Love Track LP side 1 Label Trojan Rec No: TBL 184 2.Good Vibrations Performer Beach Boys Composer Mike Love, Brian Wilson Publisher Capitol records CD Title Hits of 1966 Track 9 Label Premier Rec No:CDGH 1966 3.I feel Love Performer Donna Summer Composer D Summer/G Moroder/P Bell Publisher Casablanca Records CD Title Classic Donna Summer Track CD2 trk 3 Label Mercury Rec No:542 228-2 4.Should I stay or should I go Performer The Clash Composer The Clash CD Title Now 19 Track Cd1 trk 1 Label NOW Rec No:CDNOW 19 5.Chirpie Chirpie Cheep Cheep Performer Middle of the Road Composer Stott Publisher CMC Records CD Title Very Best of Middle of the Road Track 1 Label Disky Rec No:51 646802 6.Burning Love Performer Elvis Presley Composer Dennis Linde Publisher EMI Blackwood Music CD Title A Life in Music Track 10 Label RCA Rec No:74321 49286 2 7.Now that I've Found Love Performer Third World Composer Gamble/Huff Publisher Charly CD Title Now that We Found Love Track 11 Label Charly Rec No: Snap 178cd 8.Young Americans Performer David Bowie Composer David Bowie Publisher Jones Music CD Title Best of David Bowie Track 15 Label EMI Rec No:5398212 Record: Young Americans Book Spinoza: Ethics by G H R Parkinson Luxury: A pen which would never run out. | |
| 20041205 | 20041210 | Bobby Robson | ||
| 20041212 | 20041217 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose their discs to take to the mythical island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | ||
| Engelbert Humperdinck | 20041219 | 20041224 | ||
| Kim Cattrall | 20041226 | |||
| Cuban Ballet Dancer Carlos Acosta | 20050102 | 20050107 | ||
| Andy Mcnabb | 20050109 | 20050114 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is former SAS soldier turned author Andy McNab. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | |
| Sam Taylor-wood | 20050116 | 20050121 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| David Starkey | 20050206 | 20050211 | Sue Lawley invites the historian David Starkey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 20050213 | 20050218 | 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] | ||
| 20050218 | Sue Lawley talks to the musician Hugh Masekela. He chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| 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. | ||
| Kim Cattrall | 20050225 | Sue Lawley's guest this week is the actress Kim Cattrall. She chooses eight records to take to the mythical island. | ||
| Geoffrey Palmer | 20050227 | 20050304 | Sue Lawley invites the actor Geoffrey Palmer to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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. | |
| 20050313 | 20050318 | 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] 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] | ||
| 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. | |
| Yvonne Brewster | 20050327 | 20050401 | Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the theatre director Yvonne Brewster. She has been a major force in black British theatre for the last twenty years. Born into a wealthy family in Jamaica, Yvonne rebelled against her parents’ plans for her – marriage and children – to become a theatrical pioneer. She says she was the first black drama student in Britain - but when she enrolled, her drama school’s principal told her that, as a black actress, she would never get work here -- she went on to become the first black woman to direct at the National Theatre. Throughout her career Yvonne has been an outspoken proponent of black theatre. In 1986 she founded the theatre company Talawa, whose name in Jamaican dialect means tough or feisty. Talawa gained attention - and audiences - by putting on productions such as an all-black Importance of Being Earnest. 1. Lullaby of Broadway Performer Ella Fitzgerald Composer Warren/Dubin Publisher Polydor CD Title Ella Track Side 2 trk 6 Label Verve Rec No: 2352 170 2. No.3 In F Minor Moments Musicaux OP. 94 D.780 Performer Alfred Brendel (Piano) Composer Schubert Publisher Dureco CD Title Alfred Brendel Plays Schubert Track 7 Label Turnabout Rec No: 1158402 3. To Be Young,Gifted and Black Performer Nina Simone Composer Simone/Irving Publisher RCA CD Title Nina Simone:To be young, gifted and black Track 1 Label RCA Rec No: 1903 4. Stranger on the Shore Performer Acker Bilk Composer Bilk/Mellin Publisher Polygram INT CD Title Images Track 14 Label Knight Records Rec No: KNCD 16002 5. Che Faro senza Euridice Performer Kathleen Ferrier (Cont) Southern Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Gluck Publisher CD Title Kathleen Ferrier :Gluck: Orfeo and Euridice Track 17 Label Decca Rec No: 433 468-2 6. Many Rivers to Cross Performer Jimmy Cliff Composer J. Cliff Publisher Island Records CD Title The Best of Jimmy Cliff Track 15 Label Mango Rec No: CIDD 6 7. The Entertainer- original piano roll version Performer Scott Joplin Composer Scott Joplin Publisher Biograph Records CD Title Scott Joplin:The Entertainer Track 4 Label Biograph Rec No:BCD101 8. No Woman No Cry Performer Bob Marley Composer Bob Marley CD Title Legend Track 2 Label Tuff Gong Rec No: 548 904-2 Record:Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross Book: Primer to Learn Italian + Tape Luxury: Olive Oil. | |
| 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. 6 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. | |
| 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). | |
| Actor Patrick Stewart | 20050417 | 20050422 | ||
| 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. | |
| Journalist Katherine Whitehorn | 20050501 | 20050506 | ||
| Writer Josephine Cox | 20050508 | 20050513 | ||
| Actress Imelda Staunton | 20050515 | 20050520 | ||
| Sir David King | 20050522 | 20050527 | Chief Scientific Advisor to the government, Professor Sir David King. | |
| Peace Campaigner Satish Kumar | 20050529 | 20050603 | ||
| 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. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | |
| Actress Betsy Blair | 20050612 | 20050617 | ||
| Novelist alexander Mccall Smith | 20050619 | 20050624 | ||
| Comedian Ruby Wax | 20050626 | 20050701 | ||
| Novelist Paulo Coelho | 20050703 | 20050708 | ||
| Illustrator And Satirist Ronald Searle | 20050710 | 20050715 | ||
| 20050717 | Sue Lawley talks to the editor and writer Diana Athill, who chooses eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| Writer Josephine Cox | 20050722 | |||
| brenda Blethyn | 20050918 | 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson | 20051016 | 20051021 | ||
| Photographer Mario Testino | 20051023 | 20051028 | ||
| Boris Johnson | 20051030 | 20051104 | ||
| 20051106 | 20051111 | Sue Lawley invites the broadcaster Chris Evans to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] 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] | ||
| 20051118 | Sue Lawley invites the opera singer Renée Fleming to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| 20051120 | 20051125 | Sue Lawley invites the philosopher Mary Midgley to choose eight records to take to a mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
| David Frost | 20051127 | 20051202 | ||
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| Artist Maggi Hambling | 20051218 | 20051223 | ||
| Composer John Rutter | 20051225 | 20051230 | ||
| 20060101 | 20060106 | athlete Dame Kelly Holmes | ||
| Actor richard Griffiths | 20060108 | 20060113 | ||
| Jockey Frankie Dettori | 20060115 | 20060120 | ||
| Writer And Academic John Sutherland | 20060122 | 20060127 | ||
| Politician Shirley Williams | 20060129 | 20060203 | ||
| 20060205 | 20060210 | actor Jeremy Irons. | ||
| 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. [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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | ||
| 20060226 | 20060303 | Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites artist Rachel Whiteread to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | ||
| 20060305 | 20060310 | Sue Lawley invites thriller writer Jack Higgins to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
| 20060312 | 20060317 | Sue Lawley invites actor Terence Stamp to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
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| 20060326 | 20060331 | Sue Lawley invites another castaway to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] | ||
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| Principal Ballerina Darcey Bussell | 20060514 | 20060519 | ||
| 20060521 | 20060526 | Sue Lawley invites the leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to choose eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Rpt of Sun 11.15am] Sue Lawley invites the Director General of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] | ||
| 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. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] 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 | ||
| 20060611 | 20060616 | Sue Lawley invites the retailer George Davies to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. [Rptd Fri 9.00am] 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] | ||
| 20060618 | Sue Lawley invites physicist Peter Mansfield to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| 20060625 | 20060630 | Sue Lawley invites the physicist Peter Mansfield. | ||
| 20060702 | 20060707 | Sue Lawley invites the business leader and group chief executive of BP, Lord Browne, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20060709 | 20060714 | Gardener Monty Don | ||
| 20060716 | 20060721 | crime writer Ian Rankin | ||
| 20060723 | 20060728 | psychoanalyst Dr Hanna Segal. | ||
| 20060730 | 20060804 | playwright David Edgar. | ||
| 20060806 | 20060811 | poet and children's writer Michael Rosen | ||
| 20060813 | 20060818 | pop music mogul Simon Cowell | ||
| 20060820 | 20060825 | 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] | ||
| Joan Plowright | 20060827 | 20060901 | actress Dame Joan Plowright. | |
| Quentin Blake | 20061001 | 20061006 | Kirsty Young invites illustrator Quentin Blake to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 20061008 | 20061013 | Kirsty Young invites actress Jane Horrocks to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20061015 | 20061020 | foreign correspondent Robert Fisk | ||
| 20061022 | 20061027 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is children's campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh. | ||
| 20061029 | 20061103 | Kirsty Young invites chef Heston Blumenthal to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20061105 | 20061110, RptdFri9.00pm | Kirsty Young invites jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20061117 | Lord John Stevens. | |||
| 20061119 | 20061124, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young's castaway is best-selling novelist Stephen King. | ||
| Matt Lucas | 20061126 | 20061201 | Kirsty Young invites comedian Matt Lucas to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 20061203 | 20061208 | Kirsty Young invites impresario Raymond Gubbay to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20061210 | 20061215 | Composer Karl Jenkins. | ||
| 20061217 | 20061222 | playwright Sir Arnold Wesker. | ||
| 20061224 | 20061229 | presenter Gloria Hunniford. | ||
| 20061231 | 20070105 | 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. | ||
| Ann Daniels | 20070121 | 20070126 | polar explorer Ann Daniels. | |
| 20070128 | 20070202 | writer Brian Aldiss | ||
| Neil Tennant | 20070204 | 20070209 | pop musician Neil Tennant. | |
| 20070211 | 20070216 | TV writer Paul Abbott | ||
| Grayson Perry | 20070218 | 20070223 | potter Grayson Perry | |
| 20070225 | 20070302 | journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil | ||
| 20070304 | 20070309 | writer JP Donleavy. | ||
| 20070311 | 20070316, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites DJ and broadcaster Andy Kershaw to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20070316 | 20070323, RptdFri9.00am | 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. | ||
| Raymond Tallis | 20070325 | 20070330 | physician, philosopher, poet and novelist Prof Raymond Tallis. | |
| 20070401 | 20070406 | Ben Helfgott, Chair of the '45 Aid Society of Holocaust Survivors. | ||
| 20070513 | 20070518 | Kirsty Lang talks to actress Joanna Lumley | ||
| 20070520 | 20070525 | former BBC Director General Greg Dyke. | ||
| 20070527 | 20070601, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | 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. | ||
| 20070610 | 20070615 | Kirsty Young talks to Yoko Ono. | ||
| 20070617 | 20070622 | Kirsty Young invites Irish singer/songwriter Christy Moore. | ||
| 20070624 | 20070629 | comedian Ricky Gervais | ||
| 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 | ||
| 20070715 | 20070720, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | 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. | ||
| 20070729 | 20070803, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites former city high-flyer Nicola Horlick to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20070805 | 20070810 | screenwriter Andrew Davies. | ||
| 20070812 | 20070817 | publisher Felix Dennis | ||
| 20070819 | 20070824, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites conductor Vladimir Jurowski to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20070930 | 20071005 | Kirsty Young invites George Michael to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20071007 | 20071012, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | 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 | ||
| 20071021 | 20071026 | Kirsty Young invites comedian Ronnie Corbett | ||
| 20071028 | 20071102, RptofSun11.15am | 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, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites Nicholas Parsons to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20071116 | Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans. | |||
| 20071118 | 20071123, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites former MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20071125 | 20071130, RptofSun11.15am, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites American author Armistead Maupin to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20071202 | 20071207, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites cellist Steven Isserlis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20071209 | 20071214, RptdFri9.00am | 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, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites Victoria Wood to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 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, RptdFri9.00am | 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, RptofSun11.15am | 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, RptdFri9.00am | 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, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites former KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20080217 | 20080222, RptofSun11.15am | 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, RptdFri9.00am | Kirsty Young invites broadcaster David Dimbleby to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 20080302 | 20080307 | singer Michael Ball. | ||
| 20080309 | 20080314, RptdFri9.00am | 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. | ||
| Penelope Wilton | 20080330 | 20080404 | Kirsty Young invites actress Penelope Wilton to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Annie Lennox | 20080511 | 20080516 | Kirsty Young invites singer Annie Lennox 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, RptdFri9.00am | 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
| 20080620 | Kirsty Young invites novelist Peter Carey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| Ara Darzi | 20080622 | Kirsty Young invites pioneering surgeon Ara Darzi 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. | |||
| 20080713 | Kirsty Young invites soprano Felicity Lott to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |||
| Felicity Lott | 20080718 | |||
| 20080720 | 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. | |||
| Miriam Margolyes | 20080928 | 20081003 | Kirsty Young invites the actress Miriam Margolyes to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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. | |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | 20081012 | 20081017 | Kirsty Young invites the actor and writer Sanjeev Bhaskar to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 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. | |
| Ian Bostridge | 20081026 | 20081031 | Kirsty Young invites the singer Ian Bostridge to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| 20081102 | 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. | |||
| 20081116 | 20081121 | Kirsty Young invites David Davis MP to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | ||
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | ||
| 20081228 | 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 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. | ||
| Simon Murray | 20090104 | 20090109 | Kirsty Young invites the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Ruth Padel | 20090111 | 20090116 | Kirsty Young invites the poet Ruth Padel to choose eight records. Kirsty Young invites the poet Ruth Padel to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. | |
| Vincent Cable Mp | 20090118 | 20090123 | Kirsty Young invites the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vincent Cable MP to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites Vincent Cable MP to choose eight records. | |
| 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. | |
| Thomas Quasthoff | 20090201 | 20090206 | Kirsty Young invites the singer Thomas Quasthoff to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. Kirsty Young invites the singer Thomas Quasthoff to choose eight records. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. Kirsty Young invites Professor Dame Kay Davies to choose eight records. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Sebastian Faulks | 20090329 | 20090403 | Kirsty Young invites writer Sebastian Faulks to choose eight records. | |
| Whoopi Goldberg | 20090510 | 20090515 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comic and actress Whoopi Goldberg. As a child she used to practise the acceptance speeches she was sure she would one day make - little surprise then that she's one of a handful of people to have won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and Emmy awards. She is, she says, like a battery. When she is performing she feels as if she has been plugged in and recharged. | |
| 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.'. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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'. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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.'. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Steve Coogan | 20091011 | 20091016 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve Coogan.As a child he found he had a knack for impressions, a talent which led him to work on Spitting Image. Recently he has also found success in films, but is best known for the comic monster he created - Alan Partridge. The chatshow host in Pringle jumper and slacks made us cringe with his crass questions and witless interventions and has remained one of our most enduring comic anti-heroes. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| Sir Stuart Rose | 20091122 |  Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose.As the boss of Marks and Spencer, he has held a national institution - and the nation's knickers - in his hands. After seeing off a hostile takeover bid and revamping its tired image, he is regarded by many as the store's saviour. Now, after five years in one of the top jobs on the high street, his successor has been announced and, in this timely interview, Sir Stuart looks to the future and considers where life might take him next. Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer. | ||
| 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.'. | |
| Baroness Scotland | 20091206 | 20091211 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. | |
| 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. | |
| Sir Michael Caine | 20091220 | 20091225 | Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Michael Caine. | |
| 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. | |
| John Copley | 20100103 | 20100108 | 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'. | |
| 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. | |
| James Ellroy | 20100117 | 20100122 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the American crime writer James Ellroy. Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. His books have been translated into 30 languages and, according to the New York Times, he is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written. But the case that has dominated his life and much of his writing was the murder of his mother when he was just ten years old. In the years since, he has tried to find a way of getting to know and understand her. Record: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 'Hammerklavier', Op. 106 Book: Libra by Don DeLillo Luxury: Sun block. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Sir Clive Woodward | 20100221 | 20100226 | Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward. He took England to World Cup glory in 2003, becoming the first ever northern hemisphere side to win the trophy. He well understands the pressure and the glory of top-flight sport, which is just as well, as he's now Director of Elite Performance for Team GB's 2012 Olympic effort. He says, 'It is the coach's job to refuse to compromise. If you do, you will come second'. Kirsty Young's castaway is former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward. | |
| 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.'. | |
| Maggie Aderin-pocock | 20100307 | 20100312 | 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.'. class="blq-clearfix"> | |
| Duncan Bannatyne | 20100314 | 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. | ||
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