Desert Island Discs: People

DESERT ISLAND DISCS: At the beginning of December 2011 the BBC catalogued a comprehensive archive stretching all the way back to the 1940’s of the longstanding radio program ‘Desert Island Discs.’ The archive can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/find-a-castaway

(below is an ongoing list of episodes listened to so far)

Desert Island Discs:

·         Martin Amis 

·         Morrissey 

·         Ian McEwan

·         Douglas Adams  

·         Simon Schama

·         Germiane Greer

·         J. K. Rowling 

·         Jeremy Irons

·         Philip Pullman

·         Iain Banks

·         Sebastian Faulks

·         Julian Barnes

·         Billy Connolly

·         Armando Iannucci

·         Richard Dawkins

·         Rowan Williams

·         Jarvis Cocker

·         Hugh Laurie

·         Hanif Kureishi

·         James Fenton

·         Andrew Motion

·         Ewan McGregor

·         Kazuo Ishiguro

·         Simon Callow

** The Top Seven Desert Island Discs Update **

Martin Amis / Germiane Greer / Sebastian Faulks / Billy Connolly / Andrew Motion / Simon Callow / Ian McEwan

·         George Clooney

·         Christopher Lee

·         Umberto Eco

·         Kristin Scott Thomas

·         Kingsley Amis

·         Sue Lawley

·         Seamus Heaney

·         Nigel Hawthorne

·         John Cleese

·         J. P. Donleavy