Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Robert McCrum
05 Mar 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Robert McCrum. The author of six highly acclaimed novels and literary editor of the Observer, he describes how he woke...
Sheila Hancock
27 Feb 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Sheila Hancock. She first became a household name in the 1960s in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade. Since then she has sta...
Michael Holroyd
20 Feb 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Michael Holroyd. A respected biographer, as a boy, he sought refuge from an unhappy home in Maidenhead Public Library....
Professor Stuart Hall
13 Feb 2000
Contributed by Lukas
This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Professor Stuart Hall. Nearly 10 years after he came to England from Jamaica in 1951, he helped found...
Simon Callow
06 Feb 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Simon Callow. He impressed the theatre world when he played Mozart in Amadeus, and won our hearts as the genial Scot, ...
Peter Melchett
30 Jan 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Peter Melchett. The executive director of Greenpeace, he has recently hit the headlines for his active opposition to g...
Neil Jordan
23 Jan 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Neil Jordan. As a child he would cycle past Bram Stoker's house on his way to school, one of the reasons, perhaps, tha...
Ian McEwan
16 Jan 2000
Contributed by Lukas
This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is Ian McEwan.A Booker Prize winner, he was once dubbed 'Ian Macabre' because of the dark nature of his ...
Dr Jane Goodall
09 Jan 2000
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's guest this week is Dr. Jane Goodall. She had no formal scientific qualifications when she first went to Africa to study the Gombe chimpan...