Desert Island Discs

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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

#190 US · Society & Culture 2047 recordings 17 h 1978 → today Weekly updated 5h ago

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961–980 of 2047

Nick Hornby Sep 28, 2003

Bryn Terfel Sep 21, 2003

Barbara Taylor Bradford Jul 6, 2003

Daniel Libeskind Jun 29, 2003

Bishop John Sentamu Jun 22, 2003

Mark Tully Jun 15, 2003

Vittorio Radice Jun 8, 2003

Meera Syal Jun 1, 2003

Derek Brown May 25, 2003

Franco Zeffirelli May 18, 2003

George Fenton May 11, 2003

Professor A H Halsey May 4, 2003

Rory Bremner Apr 20, 2003

Margaret Atwood Apr 13, 2003

David Gilmour Apr 6, 2003

Kristin Scott Thomas Mar 30, 2003

Claude-Michel Schonberg Mar 23, 2003

Nick Danziger Mar 16, 2003

Vic Reeves Mar 9, 2003

Gene Pitney Mar 2, 2003

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Charts

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#190 Society & Culture · United States

🇮🇪 #2 · 🇬🇧 #2 · 🇳🇿 #5 · 🇿🇦 #12 · 🇦🇺 #16 · 🇮🇩 #23 · 🇫🇮 #38 · 🇮🇳 #41 · 🇰🇷 #42 · 🇦🇷 #48 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

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7 episodes · last 30 days · avg 41 min

Sun 38Sat 7Mon 1

Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr RSS Apple Spotify

Rankings

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As of 2026-09-24, Desert Island Discs ranks #146 on the Spotify charts and #43 on Apple Podcasts in Ireland, and appears on charts in 5 countries.

Ranking over time

Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇮🇪 Ireland as of 2026-09-24

🇮🇪 Ireland #43 🇬🇧 United Kingdom #52 🇳🇿 New Zealand #88 🇦🇺 Australia #195 🇿🇦 South Africa #197 Society & Culture #7 Apple Trending #200 Spotify

Chart records

First charted2025-08-20

Best ever#12 on Apple Podcasts (Ireland) · 2026-04-06

Days on chart380

Countries now5

CategoriesSociety & Culture · Trending

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