Kirsty Young
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's yours.
And also, I'm going to give you a luxury to make life a little more bearable on this island on your own.
What luxury would you like?
As many cases as you want.
They're yours.
And if you had to choose just one of the eight discs, if the waves were to threaten to wash to the shore and take them away, which one would you save?
Whoopi Goldberg, thank you very much for letting us hear your Desert Island discs.
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My castaway this week is the actress June Spencer.
As Peggy Woolley in The Archers, she is one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting.
It's 60 years this spring since she took on the role.
Back then, The Archers was reckoned to be a Dick Barton for farmers, a programme not of actors playing roles, but of real people whose lives we were overhearing.
She is the only original member of the cast still in the show, and over the years she has seen it all, alcoholism, gambling and bereavement to name just a few.
These days she has one of the most demanding and moving storylines in the programme, caring for a husband as he succumbs to dementia.
Now aged 90, it might be reasonable to speculate on whether she plans to retire any time soon.
No way, she says, not until I fluff my lines or miss a cue.