Desert Island Discs
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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
- Description
- Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-05-22 10:45
- last episode published
- 2022-05-22 10:45
- publication frequency
- 7.56 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 300
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2022-05-22 | Kirsty Young's castaway this week is George Michael, in a programme first broadcast in 2007. As a singer and songwriter he has enjoyed massive global success for a quarter of a century. He's sold more than 100 million records, won two Grammy awards and... |
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| 2022-05-15 | The writer Maya Angelou talks to Michael Parkinson, in a programme first broadcast in 1988. Maya Angelou died in 2014, at the age of 86. |
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| 2022-05-10 | Kirsty Young talks to June Brown, in a programme first broadcast in 2017. June died at the age of 95 on 3rd April 2022. June enjoyed a very long acting career, initially on stage, and she was best known for her role as the long-suffering chain-smoking ... |
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| 2022-05-01 | Jens Stoltenberg is the Secretary General of NATO and a former Prime Minister of Norway. Although he was born into a political family in Norway, he grew up thinking he would become a statistician, before turning to a career in politics. He served ... |
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| 2022-04-24 | Winnie Byanyima is a human rights advocate and executive director of Unaids, the joint UN Programme which was set up to eradicate Aids as a threat to public health by 2030. Winnie was born in the village of Ruti, in south west Uganda, where her teache... |
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| 2022-04-17 | Alan Cumming's wide-ranging career on stage includes playing Hamlet, starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and – perhaps most notably - taking the role of the Emcee in the musical Cabaret in London and New York to great acclaim... |
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| 2022-04-10 | Robert Plant is a singer and songwriter who was Led Zeppelin’s frontman from the band’s inception in 1968 until it disbanded in 1980. Led Zeppelin sold hundreds of millions of albums and in their heyday acquired a reputation for unbridled rock ‘n’ rol... |
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| 2022-04-03 | Oti Mabuse is a dancer, choreographer and TV talent show judge. She has enjoyed great success on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing and is one of only two professional dancers to win the glitterball trophy twice. Oti was born in South Africa in 1990, ... |
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| 2022-03-07 | Looking for the latest episode? New episodes of Desert Island Discs will now be available first on BBC Sounds for four weeks before other podcast apps. If you haven’t already, you can download the BBC Sounds app to listen to the Desert Island Discs po... |
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| 2022-02-27 |
Professor Nick Webborn, Chair of the British Paralympic Association Professor Nick Webborn has chaired the British Paralympic Association since 2017. He is a world-leading expert on Paralympic sports medicine and the most widely-published author on the subject. He has attended 11 Paralympic and one Olympic Games. He ... |
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