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The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites guests to choose eight pieces of music which they would take with them to a hypothetical desert island.They are also invited to select a book of their choosing (in addition to the Bible or a comparable religious text for the guest, and the complete works of William Shakespeare), and one luxury item (provided it is inanimate and would not ...
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.
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. [1]Each week a guest, called a "castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight audio 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 ...
Laverne, who hosts BBC Radio 4’s popular interview programme Desert Island Discs along with doing regular stints on The One Show, referenced her recent cancer diagnosis as she announced: “As ...
Jamie Dornan has reflected on the Fifty Shades of Grey “ridicule” he still faces to this day in a highly “emotional” episode of Desert Island Discs that left many listeners in tears.. On ...
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The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests from 2011 to 2020. Desert Island Discs takes two short breaks, in (the northern) spring and summer. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts new programmes for approximately 42 weeks each year on Sunday mornings, usually with a repeat transmission 5 days later.
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.