Desert Island Discs
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
Notable Guests
Episodes (2024)
Joe Wicks, fitness trainer and author
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Martin Lewis, financial campaigner
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Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, former nurse
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Charles Hazlewood, conductor
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Sinead Burke, disability rights activist and teacher
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Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate
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Brian Cox, actor
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Dame Helena Morrissey, financier and campaigner
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Daniel Radcliffe, actor
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Chris Riddell, illustrator, author and political cartoonist
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Dorothy Byrne, journalist
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Melanie C
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Ian Wright, former footballer and broadcaster
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Zoe Ball, broadcaster
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Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
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Anne Enright, writer
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Dame Sue Campbell, Director Women's Football at the FA
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Michael Lewis, writer
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Rupert Everett, actor
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Stephen Merchant, writer, comedian and actor
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Heidi Thomas, screenwriter
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Professor Russell Foster, professor of circadian neuroscience
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Asif Kapadia, film director
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Isabella Tree, writer and conservationist
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Stephen Graham, actor
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Lauren Laverne picks some of her favourite episodes
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Kimberley Motley, lawyer
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Russell T Davies, screenwriter
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Wendell Pierce, actor
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Dame Glenys Stacey, former Chief Inspector of Probation
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Baroness Arminka Helić
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer & lyricist
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Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, firefighter
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Thom Yorke, musician
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Jo Fairley, businesswoman
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Sir Tim Waterstone, businessman
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Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, England
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John Cooper Clarke, poet
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Marcus Wareing, chef
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Sue Biggs, DG Royal Horticultural Society
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Jared Diamond, academic and author
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Emily Eavis
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Nitin Sawhney, musician, producer, composer
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Professor Monica McWilliams, social scientist
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Lubaina Himid, artist
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Derren Brown, illusionist
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Pat McGrath, makeup artist
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Louis Theroux
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Martin Freeman, actor
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Jacqueline de Rojas, President of techUK
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