About Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest, called a "castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Since 2018 the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne.
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Thom Yorke, musician
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Bob Mortimer, comedian
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Louis Theroux
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Simon Pegg, actor
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Daniel Radcliffe, actor
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Ian Wright, former footballer and broadcaster
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David Byrne
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Stephen Fry
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Martin Freeman, actor
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Noel Gallagher
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Neil Gaiman, writer
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Christopher Nolan
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Adele, singer and songwriter
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Classic Desert Island Discs: Ricky Gervais
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Stephen Merchant, writer, comedian and actor
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Melanie C
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Richard Osman, writer and broadcaster
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Bruce Springsteen
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Tom Hanks
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Zoe Ball, broadcaster
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Cillian Murphy, actor
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Billie Piper, actor
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John Cooper Clarke, poet
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Charlie Brooker
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Annie Nightingale, DJ
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Sharon Horgan, writer, actor, producer
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Matt Smith
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Jack Whitehall
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Bill Gates
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Robert Plant, singer and songwriter
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Dara Ó Briain, comedian and television presenter
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Ruth Jones, actor and writer
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Martin Lewis, financial campaigner
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Greg Davies, comedian
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Greta Gerwig, writer and director
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Adrian Edmondson, actor, writer
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Cate Blanchett, actor
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Steven Spielberg, director
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Derren Brown, illusionist
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Kelsey Grammer
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Brian Cox, actor
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Rick Rubin, music producer
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Sandi Toksvig
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Joe Wicks, fitness trainer and author
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Katherine Ryan, comedian
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Kylie Minogue
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Alexei Sayle, comedian
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Nile Rodgers
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Arsène Wenger, former football manager
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Simon Reeve, broadcaster and writer
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