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 2043 recordings 17 h 1978 → today Weekly updated 5 days ago
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1301–1320 of 2043
Sir Bernard Ingham May 21, 1995
Neil Simon May 14, 1995
Dr George Carey May 7, 1995
Pete Waterman Apr 30, 1995
George Lloyd Apr 23, 1995
Hugh Grant Apr 16, 1995
James Bowman Apr 9, 1995
Nina Bawden Apr 2, 1995
Felix Aprahamian Mar 19, 1995
Nigel Nicolson Mar 12, 1995
Professor Eric Hobsbawm Mar 5, 1995
Christopher Lee Feb 26, 1995
Jimmy Knapp Feb 19, 1995
Sir Adrian Cadbury Jan 29, 1995
Dr Richard Dawkins Jan 22, 1995
Phil Redmond Jan 15, 1995
Patricia Hodge Jan 8, 1995
Alan Clark Jan 1, 1995
David Jason OBE Dec 25, 1994
Penelope Hobhouse Dec 18, 1994
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Charts

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#190 Society & Culture · United States

🇬🇧 #2 · 🇮🇪 #2 · 🇳🇿 #5 · 🇿🇦 #12 · 🇦🇺 #16 · 🇮🇩 #23 · 🇫🇮 #38 · 🇮🇳 #41 · 🇰🇷 #42 · 🇨🇦 #51 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

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4 episodes · last 30 days · avg 48 min

Sun 38Sat 7Fri 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 2026-09-18, Desert Island Discs ranks #147 on the Spotify charts and #87 on Apple Podcasts in Ireland, and appears on charts in 4 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 2026-09-18

🇮🇪 Ireland #87 🇬🇧 United Kingdom #93 🇳🇿 New Zealand #107 🇿🇦 South Africa #197 Society & Culture #15 Apple
Chart records
First charted2025-08-20
Best ever#12 on Apple Podcasts (Ireland) · 2026-04-06
Days on chart374
Countries now4
CategoriesSociety & Culture

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