Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Professor Dame Ann Dowling
24 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and international expert on aircraft noise reduction, Professor Dame Ann Dowling. The first female president o...
Levi Roots
17 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur, Levi Roots.His business success began following an appearance on BBC Two's Dragon's Den in 2007. With gui...
Nicole Farhi
10 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi.Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in fashion was present from ...
Matthew Barzun
03 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Matthew Barzun.Born in New York City as the second of four children to Roger Barzu...
Sara Khan
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is Sara Khan.A British Muslim human rights activist, she's the director of Inspire, a counter-extremism and women's rights org...
Barrie Rutter
19 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and theatre director Barrie Rutter.He is the founder and artistic director of the touring theatre company Norther...
Warwick Davis
12 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Warwick Davis.His career began thanks to his grandmother who heard a radio advert calling for short people to be ...
David Nott
05 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, David Nott.He works across three London hospitals performing general, vascular, trauma & reconstructive su...
Professor Louise Richardson
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the political scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Professor Louise Richardson.She was born in Ireland, is on...
Berry Gordy
22 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the producer Berry Gordy.He founded the Motown record label and his musical empire made worldwide stars of Smokey Robinson,...
Inga Beale
15 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, Inga Beale.She has been the CEO of Lloyd's of London since January 2014 and was the first wom...
Tom Hanks, actor
08 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is Tom Hanks.From 'Big' to 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Captain Phillips' to 'Apollo 13', his long and distinguished film-making c...
John Timpson
27 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman, John Timpson.He is chairman of his eponymous high street retailers and the business is in his blood: start...
Gloria Steinem
20 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, feminist & activist, Gloria Steinem.At the forefront of the second wave of feminism, she came to prominence...
Yinka Shonibare
13 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist Yinka Shonibare MBE.His work has populated museums around the globe, with a vivid, subversive and often tragi-co...
Dr Dame Sue Ion
06 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and nuclear scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion.The first woman to be awarded the highly prestigious President's Medal b...
Hugh Bonneville
28 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is Hugh Bonneville.Known around the world for his portrayal of Lord Grantham in ITV's hugely popular Downton Abbey, he made Br...
Dame Zaha Hadid
21 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect, Dame Zaha Hadid.The first woman to be awarded architecture's highest honour, the Pritzker Prize, she designe...
Ben Saunders
14 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the polar adventurer Ben Saunders. In his own words he "specialises in dragging heavy things around cold places".He's one o...
Professor Dame Carol Black
07 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Dame Carol Black.She is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and is a special adviser to the Department of He...
Bill Gates
04 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is Bill Gates.He sat at his first computer while still at school in Seattle, wrote his first computer programme aged just 13 a...
Sigrid Rausing
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the philanthropist and publisher Sigrid Rausing.Founder of one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations, her trust has...
Sir Anthony Seldon
17 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the educationalist and writer, Sir Anthony Seldon.Now Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, he was the Master of Wellin...
Alex Crawford
10 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Sky TV news correspondent Alex Crawford.She's won the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year award an unprec...
Colm Toibin
03 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Colm Toibin.Best-known for his novels "Brooklyn" - now made into a film - "Nora Webster" and "The Master," he ha...
Patricia Greene
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Archers actress Patricia Greene is castaway by Kirsty Young. For nearly sixty years she has played the role of Jill in Radio 4’s The Archers which...