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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.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives. Val grew up in Streatham in South London, where a local record shop helped to nurture her love of music, especially jazz. Her lifelong passion for jazz and photography began at an early age: when she was just 14 years old, she persuaded her mother to take her to London Airport to see off the jazz legend Louis Armstrong who had been playing in the UK. She asked him for an autograph, then took a picture of him as he broke into a huge smile.

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The fleeting return of Kirsty Young, a mixed bag of guest editors, some midwinter magic and fond memories of Terry Hall. Young retired from the best job in radio in , due to chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia and rheumatism. Laverne, who suffered from unfavourable comparisons with Young when she first started unfairly, in my opinion , gave Young a lovely introduction, reminding us that her guest did far more in her career than that one excellent gig. As is Laverne, who pressed her naturally private guest on what her illness did to her identity and got a revealing response. He got his old cricket compadre David Gower to investigate how test match cricket and the one-day versions can best work together. Like passing the time with a golf-club bore. However, Jamie Oliver gave us a great show on Tuesday. He pulled in big names too, including George Osborne and Tony Blair, grilling the latter about how Oliver could best work with politicians to achieve his aim of free school meals for every child whose parents are on universal credit. Good stuff. Little moments hit hard. In another section, Zaghari-Ratcliffe cooked a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe she used while imprisoned, alongside Ottolenghi himself. He asked her about cooking in prison, and her answer was complicated: she loved to make meals for her daughter Gabriella when Gabriella visited her in prison, but, as time passed, Gabriella refused to eat her food.

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The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book in addition to the Bible — or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs — and the Complete Works of Shakespeare and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests are listed here. Very rarely, programmes will be repeated in place of new shows as a tribute to former guests who have recently died — for example Radio 4 repeated Humphrey Lyttelton 's show, originally aired on 5 November , on 15 June BBC Radio 4 broadcasts new programmes for approximately 42 weeks each year on Sunday mornings, usually with a repeat transmission five days later. On Remembrance Sunday in November the programme is not broadcast but that week's programme gets a single airing in the Friday repeat slot.

The fleeting return of Kirsty Young, a mixed bag of guest editors, some midwinter magic and fond memories of Terry Hall. Young retired from the best job in radio in , due to chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia and rheumatism. Laverne, who suffered from unfavourable comparisons with Young when she first started unfairly, in my opinion , gave Young a lovely introduction, reminding us that her guest did far more in her career than that one excellent gig. As is Laverne, who pressed her naturally private guest on what her illness did to her identity and got a revealing response. He got his old cricket compadre David Gower to investigate how test match cricket and the one-day versions can best work together.

Desert island discs guest today

As Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs enters its 70th year, our Scraperwiki spreadsheet reveals a number of themes running through castaways' choices over the past seven decades. With the entire Desert Island Discs archive now available on the BBC Radio 4 website , guests' selections of books and luxuries are comprehensively revealed in all their profound, surprising - and occasionally downright odd - glory. Since the programme began in , a total of 43 guests, including Terry Wogan and George Clooney, elected to while away the hours with Tolstoy's War and Peace, according to the BBC archive. Camila Batmanghelidjh and Raymond Tallis chose the existentialist writings of Sartre and Heidegger to aid the solitude, but Proust was the philosopher of choice, featuring in at least 50 episodes. Unsurprisingly, booze featured heavily on the imaginary island, with politicians particularly keen on a tipple. David Cameron was one of dozens of guests who wanted whisky, while David Davis requested "a magic wine cellar which never runs out". Lord Brian Rix's choice of a "proper orthopaedic cushion" epitomised the trend towards home comforts: Christabel Bielenberg chose a "comfortable chair"; Daniel Baremboin a piano with a mattress. The musical instrument was a winner, with guests, including Sir Ian McKellen, opting for a piano - perhaps unsurprisingly given of the show's guests have been from stage, screen and radio, and from music backgrounds. Guitars were next, with 57 appearances in the archive.

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