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DESERT ISLAND DISCS ARCHIVE

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Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. Created by Roy Plomley in 1942, the format is simple: each week a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.

Guests A-Z

           
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          A      B      C      D      E      F     G      H      I      J      K      L      M   

           N      O      P      Q      R      S      T      U      V      W      X      Y     Z


0-9

A

Diane Abbott
Paul Abbott
Joss Ackland
Carlos Acosta
Sir Ken Adam
Haleh Afshar
Allan Ahlberg
Brian Aldiss
Tariq Ali
Karen Armstrong
Diana Athill
Margaret Atwood

B
 
Bill Bailey
Beryl Bainbridge
Jill Balcon
Michael Ball
Daniel Barenboim
Pat Barker
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Christabel Bielenberg
Karan Bilimoria
Betsy Blair
Quentin Blake
Sir Christopher Bland
Brenda Blethyn
Henry Blofeld
Professor Barry Blumberg
Heston Blumenthal
Tom Blundell
Ian Bostridge
Matthew Bourne
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Karren Brady
Jo Brand
Rory Bremner
Yvonne Brewster
Raymond Briggs
Derek Brown
John Browne
Darcey Bussell

C

Vince Cable
John Cale
David Cameron
Menzies Campbell
Peter Carey
Antonio Carluccio
Kim Cattrall
Shami Chakrabarti
Jung Chang
Jeremy Clarkson
Julian Clary
George Clooney
Jarvis Cocker
Paulo Coelho
Billy Connolly
Robin Cook
Ronnie Corbett
Bernard Cornwell
Simon Cowell
Josephine Cox
Bill Cullen
Sinead Cusack

D

Paul Dacre
Ann Daniels
Nick Danziger
Ara Darzi
Andrew Davies
George Davies
Kay Davies
David Davis
Michael Deeley
Felix Dennis
Frankie Dettori
David Dimbleby
Sacha Distel
Carl Djerassi
Sister Frances Dominica
Monty Don
JP Donleavy
Marcus Du Sautoy
Greg Dyke

E

Michael Eavis
David Edgar
Tracey Emin
Chris Evans
Martin Evans

F

UA Fanthorpe
George Fenton
Colin Firth
Robert Fisk
Renée Fleming
George Foreman
John Fortune
Martha Lane Fox
Antonia Fraser
Christopher Frayling
Stephen Frears
David Frost

G

Paul Gambaccini
Frank Gardner
Ricky Gervais
Angela Gheorghiu
AA Gill
Fay Godwin
Howard Goodall
Oleg Gordievsky
Anthony Grayling
Richard Griffiths
Nicholas Grimshaw
Raymond Gubbay

H

Pen Hadow
Professsor AH Halsey
Maggi Hambling
Emmylou Harris
Ben Helfgott
Ruthie Henshall
Jack Higgins
Kelly Holmes
David Hope
Nicola Horlick
Nick Hornby
Anthony Horowitz
Jane Horrocks
Michael Howard
Engelbert Humperdinck
John Humphrys
Gloria Hunniford

I

Armando Iannucci
Richard Ingrams
Jeremy Irons
Steven Isserlis

J

Geraldine James
P D James
Alec Jeffreys
Karl Jenkins
Joel Joffe
Alan Johnson
Boris Johnson
Sue Johnston
Digby Jones
Vladimir Jurowski

K

Thomas Keneally
Charles Kennedy
Judith Kerr
Andy Kershaw
David King
Stephen King
Ralph Kohn
Herbert Kretzmer
Satish Kumar
Linton Kwesi Johnson

L

Nigella Lawson
Annie Lennox
Ann Leslie
Daniel Libeskind
Lady Longford
Felicity Lott
Matt Lucas
Joanna Lumley
Humphrey Lyttelton

M

Wangari Maathai
Baaba Maal
Lorin Maazel
Richard Madeley
John Malkovich
Eliza Manningham-Buller
Peter Mansfield
Jack Mapanje
Miriam Margolyes
Dame Alicia Markova
Wayne Marshall
Hugh Masekela
Armistead Maupin
Peter Maxwell Davies
Brian May
Alexander McCall Smith
Ian McKellen
Paul McKenna
Virginia McKenna
Stanley McMurty
Andy McNab
David McVicar
Sir Christopher Meyer
George Michael
Mary Midgley
Jonathan Miller
Christy Moore
Michael Morpurgo
Desmond Morris
Jan Morris
Simon Murray

N
 
Andrew Neil
James Nesbitt
Randy Newman
Bill Nighy
Gulam Noon
Graham Norton

O

Edna O'Brien
Paul O'Grady
Christopher Ondaatje
Yoko Ono

P

Ruth Padel
Geoffrey Palmer
Antonio Pappano
Cornelia Parker
Nicholas Parsons
Grayson Perry
Philippe Petit
Matthew Pinsent
Gene Pitney
Joan Plowright
Stephen Poliakoff
Oliver Postgate

Q

Thomas Quasthoff

R

Vittorio Radice
Gordon Ramsay
Ian Rankin
Frederic Raphael
Simon Rattle
Vic Reeves
Fiona Reynolds
Sir Tim Rice
Alison Richard
Brian Rix, Lord
(External) Bobby Robson
Michael Rosen
Jack Rosenthal
Leonard Rosoman
Dorothy Rowe
Simon Russell Beale
John Rutter

S

David Sainsbury
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Kristin Scott Thomas
Anne Scott-James
Ronald Searle
Hanna Segal
Bishop John Sentamu
Posy Simmonds
Joe Simpson
Nigel Slater
Liz Smith
Iain Duncan Smith
Timothy Spall
Natasha Spender
Clive Stafford Smith
Terence Stamp
David Starkey
Imelda Staunton
John Stefanidis
Rod Steiger
John Stevens
Patrick Stewart
Rory Stewart
Janet Street-Porter
Alan Sillitoe
David Suchet
John Sutherland
Meera Syal

T

Raymond Tallis
Sam Taylor Wood
Jimmy Tarbuck
Neil Tennant
Bryn Terfel
Mario Testino
Mark Tully

U

V

Jack Vettriano

W

David Walliams
Minette Walters
Ruby Wax
Paul Weller
Arnold Wesker
Katharine Whitehorn
Paul Whitehouse
Rachel Whiteread
Shirley Williams
Rowan Williams
Jacqueline Wilson
Penelope Wilton
Michael Winner
Marguerite Wolff
Victoria Wood
Harry Woolf (Lord)

X



Y

Z

Franco Zeffirelli



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