Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young

Baroness Arminka Heli?

Baroness Arminka Heli? is credited with persuading William Hague, the former foreign secretary,...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer & lyricist

Lin-Manuel Miranda is best known as the composer, lyricist and original star of the...

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Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, firefighter

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is the Chief Fire Officer for West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. She is...

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Thom Yorke, musician

Thom Yorke has been the front man of Radiohead, one of Britain’s most successful British bands,...

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Classic Desert Island Discs: Lemn Sissay

Another chance to hear Lemn Sissay's Desert Island Discs from October 2015. Interviewed by Kirsty...

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Classic Desert Island Discs: Judith Kerr

Another chance to hear Judith Kerr, interviewed by Sue Lawley. From February 2004. A writer and...

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Classic Desert Island Discs: Daniel Kahneman

Another chance to hear Daniel Kaheneman, interviewed by Kirsty Young in August 2013. Widely...

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Classic Desert Island Discs: Professor Monica Grady

Another chance to hear Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open...

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Classic Desert Island Discs: Freddie Flintoff

One of the best players of his generation, he was part of the England team that won the Ashes in...

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Jo Fairley, businesswoman

Jo Fairley is a businesswoman and writer. She co-founded the Green & Black’s chocolate company...

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Sir Tim Waterstone, businessman

Sir Tim Waterstone is the founder of the bookshop chain that bears his name. Born in May 1939, he...

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Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, England

Dame Sally Davies is the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England. She will take up her next...

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John Cooper Clarke, poet

John Cooper Clarke first achieved fame with his poetry during the punk rock era of the late...

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Marcus Wareing, chef

Marcus Wareing is a prize-winning chef, restaurateur, TV presenter and cookery book writer, who...

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Sue Biggs, DG Royal Horticultural Society

Sue Biggs is the Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society. She’s been at the helm...

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Jared Diamond, academic and author

Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, although...

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Emily Eavis, festival organiser

Emily Eavis is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival. Together with her husband and her...

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Nitin Sawhney, musician, producer, composer

Nitin Sawhney is a composer, musician and producer working in the worlds of music, film, video...

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Professor Monica McWilliams, social scientist

Professor Monica McWilliams is an academic, peace campaigner and former politician. In 1996,...

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Lubaina Himid, artist

Lubaina Himid is a Turner Prize-winning artist, curator and Professor of Contemporary Art at the...

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