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Desert Island Discs

June 2024

  • Clive Myrie in London.

    ‘It’s the front line of being British’: Clive Myrie on hosting BBC election night, and the racism he has endured

  • Rebel Wilson recording Desert Island Discs

    Rebel Wilson says idea only gay actors can play gay roles ‘is total nonsense’

March 2024

  • Jessica Hepburn

    Self and wellbeing
    How an epic climb lifted one woman out of life’s lowest point

    In emotional pain, Jessica Hepburn decided to climb to the top of the world and listen to every single available episode of Desert Island Discs

February 2024

  • Cillian Murphy

    Cillian Murphy: ‘I’d happily appear in Peaky Blinders again’

    The Bafta and Oscar-nominated actor says he would like to reprise his role as the Birmingham gangster Thomas Shelby

January 2024

  • Jamie Dornan at the Baftas in 2023

    Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey

  • Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani in the Desert Island Discs studio

    Bishop of Chelmsford recalls fleeing Iran in 1980 after brother’s murder

October 2023

  • Patrick Grant

    Scottish fashion designer Patrick Grant says father died due to PPE shortages

  • Katherine Ryan wearing an off-the-shoulder yellow dress standing in front of a wall at a launch event.

    Katherine Ryan says she got pushback over ‘dangerous male comic’ claims

September 2023

  • Nina Simone in 1966.

    Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year

    Exclusive: Analysis shows change in guests and tastes help jazz musician keep classical music off top spot

July 2023

  • Stanley Tucci, left, and Colin Firth in a scene from Supernova.

    Stanley Tucci says straight actors should be free to play gay roles

    The film star has always felt much safer on stage than in real life, he reveals on BBC’s Desert Island Discs

June 2023

  • Writer Adam Kay in the studio for his appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

    Adam Kay tells of life ‘transformed’ by two babies

    Writer of comic medical memoir This is Going to Hurt reveals surrogacy on BBC’s Desert Island Discs

May 2023

  • Lauren Laverne

    Desert Island Discs to move to BBC’s for-profit division in bid to make money

  • Simon Pegg

    ‘I kept my alcoholism secret on Mission: Impossible set,’ Simon Pegg reveals

April 2023

  • Lesley Manville, photographed in London last month. She is wearing a black dress and oversized corsage

    ‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood

    The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman

December 2022

  • Lauren Laverne and Kirsty Young

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Desert Island Discs; Today guest editors; The Dark Is Rising; Terry Hall

    The fleeting return of Kirsty Young, a mixed bag of guest editors, some midwinter magic and fond memories of Terry Hall
  • Lauren Laverne, left, interviews former host Kirsty Young for a special Christmas Day edition of Desert Island Discs.

    ‘Losing sense of self’: Kirsty Young opens up about illness on Desert Island Discs

    Former presenter tells current host Lauren Laverne of pain of stepping back from career due to chronic conditions
  • A scene from Jaws

    Spielberg tells of guilt over harm hit film Jaws may have done to sharks

    Director tells BBC’s Desert Island Discs he regrets the ‘frenzy of sport fishing’ that followed 1975 thriller’s release

November 2022

  • Lauren Laverne and Kirsty Young

    Former Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young to return as Christmas guest

  • Richard E Grant photographed in London in September 2021.

    ‘My father said he’d blow my brains out’: Richard E Grant tells of grief and trauma

August 2022

  • John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen

    John Legend reveals trauma of losing child in Desert Island Discs

    A talent from the age of four, the musician seemingly led a charmed life - until tragedy struck
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