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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1321–1340 of 2043

Margaret Forster Dec 4, 1994

Sir Howard Hodgkin Nov 27, 1994

Glenys Kinnock Nov 20, 1994

Berthold Goldschmidt Nov 13, 1994

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Nov 6, 1994

Kathleen Hale Oct 30, 1994

Lynda La Plante Oct 23, 1994

Sir George Christie Oct 16, 1994

Jeanette Winterson Oct 9, 1994

Professor James Fenton Oct 2, 1994

Mary Stott Sep 25, 1994

John Tavener Sep 18, 1994

Joanna Trollope Sep 11, 1994

Rabbi Hugo Gryn Jul 10, 1994

Derek Jameson Jul 3, 1994

John Drummond Jun 26, 1994

Brian Sewell Jun 19, 1994

Zoe Wanamaker Jun 12, 1994

Milton Shulman Jun 5, 1994

Peter Scudamore May 29, 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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