In November 2023, broadcaster Peter White was asked on to Desert Island Discs - a tribute to a career that included an upcoming half-century as presenter of BBC Radio 4's In Touch programme.

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Yoko Ono has always defied convention, but during a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2007, she made an unexpected claim - that she felt John Lennon’s presence with her in ...

Photo: Danny Dyer and Lauren Laverne in the Desert Island Discs studio. Danny’s favourite ... as a matriarch and a beautiful woman.” 4. He liked getting a laugh when he was a child “I ...

Siffre wrote it after watching a documentary about apartheid in South Africa and it was the subject of an episode of the Radio 4 series Soul Music. 2. Sport runs deep in her family – on both ...

Radio chat show BBC Radio 4 / BBC Light Programme / BBC Home Service / BBC Forces Programme Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of ...

Tom Hanks has listed the songs he could not live without. In an interview with Kirsty Young for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the actor said he'd "had enough" of the treatment he'd received and was "going to go". "Then they read a letter out from home, from my daughter Dani ...

The BBC radio show has become such an engrained part of culture having been on the air waves for more than 80 years - first ...