Desert Island Discs

10 episodes

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  • 1

    Ed Sheeran

    Desert Island Discs

    49:39 | May 7th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Ed Sheeran. His songs have brought him two Grammys, four Brit awards and global success. Shortly after the release of his latest album, Divide, tracks from it occu...Show More

  • 2

    Sheryl Sandberg

    Desert Island Discs

    35:23 | Jul 30th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, is Kirsty Young's castaway. She worked for Google at the beginning of the tech boom before joining Facebook in 2008. Raised in Miami Beach, Florid...Show More

  • 3

    Tom Hanks

    Desert Island Discs

    47:55 | May 8th, 2016

    1 recommendation

    Kirsty Young's castaway is Tom Hanks. From 'Big' to 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Captain Phillips' to 'Apollo 13', his long and distinguished film-making career has brought him multiple awards and many p...Show More

  • 4

    Naomi Klein

    Desert Island Discs

    34:34 | Nov 26th, 2017

    The writer and activist Naomi Klein reached an international audience with her first book, the best-selling No Logo, a rallying cry against the power of corporate brands and the replacement of traditi...Show More

  • 5

    Chris Riddell is an illustrator, author of children’s books and a political cartoonist. From 2015 to 2017, he was the Children’s Laureate, and he has won three Greenaway Medals for his work – more tha...Show More

  • 6

    Melanie C

    Desert Island Discs

    41:00 | Feb 23rd, 2020

    Melanie Chisholm - known as Melanie C - is a singer and songwriter who found global fame as one fifth of the Spice Girls, the most commercially successful female group ever. Melanie was one of 400 o...Show More

  • 7

    Emily Eavis, festival organiser

    Desert Island Discs

    46:22 | Jun 23rd, 2019

    Emily Eavis is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival. Together with her husband and her father, she masterminds the booking of bands and oversees the setting up of what is the largest greenfield f...Show More

  • 8

    Classic Desert Island Discs: Ricky Gervais

    Desert Island Discs

    33:23 | Apr 7th, 2019

    Another chance to listen to the comedian, Ricky Gervais speaking to Kirsty Young in 2007. In just twelve episodes, his show The Office changed the face of British television comedy. At its centre was ...Show More

  • 9

    Yusuf Cat Stevens, musician

    Desert Island Discs

    35:05 | Sep 27th, 2020

    Yusuf Cat Stevens is a singer-songwriter who first enjoyed success more than 50 years ago. He was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in July 1948. His Greek Cypriot father and his Swedish mother ran a re...Show More

  • 10

    Daniel Radcliffe, actor

    Desert Island Discs

    55:27 | Mar 15th, 2020

    Daniel Radcliffe reached a global audience in the title role of the hugely successful Harry Potter films. He has also appeared on Broadway and in the West End, as well as in over a dozen films since t...Show More

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