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Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2012

BBC Radio 4

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island.

Episodes

The Most Reverend Justin Welby

Dec 21 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway for Christmas week is The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby. Ordained as a priest in 1993, 19 years later he was appointed to lead the Anglican commu...

Sarah Millican

Dec 14 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comedian, Sarah Millican. Her every woman yet no-holds-barred style of comedy has brought her sell-out tours and several of her own highly successful TV se...

Julie Bentley

Dec 7 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Chief Executive of the Guide Association, Julie Bentley - or, more accurately, Girlguiding. The name change is surely a clue to the evolving nature of an o...

Damian Lewis

Nov 30 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Damian Lewis. As part of the wave of British talent that's crashed onto America's shores in recent years his impact has made a deep impression on th...

Rt Hon Theresa May

Nov 23 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Right Honourable Theresa May MP - the longest serving Home Secretary in fifty years. For those who think her political lineage seems directly descended from the Iron...

John Agard

Nov 16 2014 • 0 MIN

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard. His work is studied widely in British schools. He was the BBC's first poet in residence and along with WH Auden and Philip Larkin, he's a ...