Ned Sherrin
09 Jul 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is something of a show business all-rounder - the moving sp...
Mark McCormack
02 Jul 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the man who, as well as transforming Wimbledon into a mu...
Joan Collins
25 Jun 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is someone who, over the last seven years, has becom...
Maria Aitken
18 Jun 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is actress Maria Aitken, who will be talking to Sue Lawley ...
Jonathon Porritt
11 Jun 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Director of Friends of the Earth Jonathon Porritt. He'll...
Richard Branson
04 Jun 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is ideally suited to speculate on the pleasures and ...
Sir Nicholas Henderson
28 May 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of the country's leading former diplomats, Si...
Katharine Hamnett
21 May 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's most successful fashion designer...
Thora Hird
14 May 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is one of Britain's greatest and best-loved character actre...
Lenny Henry
07 May 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's most popular comedians, Lenny He...
Lady Redgrave
30 Apr 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is someone who now sits at the head of one of this country'...
Miriam Rothschild
23 Apr 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is biologist and conservationist Miriam Rothschild. ...
Lord Roy Jenkins
16 Apr 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Lord Jenkins of Hillhead - formerly Roy Jenkins.[...
Leslie Grantham
09 Apr 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is an actor who rose to fame on the nation's televis...
Sir Stephen Spender
02 Apr 1989
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Desert Island Discs, one of the most eminent English poets of this century, Sir Steph...
Gerald Scarfe
12 Mar 1989
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Re...
Dame Josephine Barnes
05 Mar 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Dame Josephine Barnes, who, ten years ago, was th...
David Hare
26 Feb 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the playwright and theatre director David Hare - a man w...
Enoch Powell
19 Feb 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the Rt Hon Enoch Powell - politician, poet and cl...
Jeffrey Tate
12 Feb 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Jeffrey Tate, principal conductor of the English ...
Rocco Forte
05 Feb 1989
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the chief executive of Britain's largest hotel and catering chain...
Joan Armatrading
29 Jan 1989
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway on the mythical desert island is someone who welcomes the isolation her exile c...
Boy George
22 Jan 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is someone who has experienced the delights of inter...
Tony Benn
15 Jan 1989
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the Rt Hon Tony Benn MP. He'll be discussi...
Twiggy
08 Jan 1989
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is someone who's face graced the covers of ...
Most Rev Robert Runcie
01 Jan 1989
Contributed by Lukas
The first castaway of 1989 in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's most senior church...
Edward Heath
18 Dec 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is a man who has, at times, endured a different isolation from that ...
Charles Dance
11 Dec 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is actor Charles Dance. A man once termed "the thinking wom...
Lady Warnock
04 Dec 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a philosopher, academic and mistress of Girton Co...
Stephen Fry
27 Nov 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a man who prefers to shun any sort of label, but ...
Bob Champion
20 Nov 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is jockey Bob Champion - a man who, against a...
Bob Hoskins
13 Nov 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is a man who has reached the top of his profession t...
Sir Claus Moser
06 Nov 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a man of quite extraordinary diversity. Now Warde...
Germaine Greer
30 Oct 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a writer and academic who's most renowned for her...
Rt. Hon. Michael Foot
23 Oct 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a man who has been described as "the nicest Prime...
Cilla Black
16 Oct 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs reveals her three remaining burning ambitions in life: t...
Terry Wogan
09 Oct 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Shy, lazy, self-effacing: this is the way this week's castaway on Desert Island Discs describes hims...
Athene Seyler
02 Oct 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the actress Athene Seyler. She first app...
Bishop Trevor Huddleston
25 Sep 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway on this week's Desert Island Discs is a monk, a man at peace with solitude, but whose l...
Salman Rushdie
18 Sep 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway on Desert Island Discs is one of the most prominent novelists in the English la...
Peter Donohoe
11 Sep 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is pianist Peter Donohoe.Favourite track: String Quintet In C Major by Franz S...
Alfred Wainwright
04 Sep 1988
Contributed by Lukas
For people who enjoy walking on the Cumbrian fells there's one indispensable companion. It's a Wainw...
Anita Dobson
28 Aug 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Anita Dobson.Favourite track: The Locomotion by Little Eva Book: Th...
Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
21 Aug 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is historian Lord Dacre Of Glanton.Favourite track: Pavane For A Dead Infanta ...
Patricia Neal
14 Aug 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Patricia Neal.Favourite track: Black Is The Colour by Joan Baez Boo...
Reverend Ian Paisley
07 Aug 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is Northern Ireland MP/MEP Reverend Ian Paisley.Favourite track: The Twenty-Th...
Joan Turner
31 Jul 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Joan Turner.Favourite track: One Fine Day by Giacomo Puccini Book:...
Lord Armstrong
24 Jul 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong.Favourite track: Piano Trio In D Mi...
Dame Edna Everage
17 Jul 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Dame Edna Everage.Favourite track: I Feel Pretty by Kiri Te Kanawa...
David Essex
10 Jul 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway on Sue Lawley's desert island is a little difficult to categorise. To the recor...
David Owen
03 Jul 1988
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate his 50th birthday this week, David Owen, leader of the Social Democratic Party, has rat...
Jeremy Isaacs
26 Jun 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Having left television to become General Director Designate of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,...
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
19 Jun 1988
Contributed by Lukas
At 97, the actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies reflects with interest on the prospect of being castaway an...
Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd
12 Jun 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is Home Office Minister Douglas Hurd.Favourite track: In Paradisum by Gabriel ...
Anton Mosimann
05 Jun 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway is Anton Mosimann - until recently, Maitre Chef des Cuisines at the Dorchester ...
Rabbi Lionel Blue
29 May 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is Rabbi Lionel Blue.Favourite track: Why Has A Cow Got Four Legs? by Cicely C...
Anita Roddick
27 May 1988
Contributed by Lukas
When Anita Roddick opened the Brighton Body Shop in 1976, she struck gold with a formula to knock th...
Rowan Atkinson
15 May 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the comedy actor Rowan Atkinson who features in the Blackadder sa...
Peggy Makins
08 May 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is Peggy Makins, better known as Evelyn Home, long-time agony aunt of Woman m...
Neil Kinnock
01 May 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock.Favourite track: Horace the Horse b...
Michael Gambon
24 Apr 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is the actor Michael Gambon, who last year won the BAFTA award for best actor...
Mary Archer
17 Apr 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week's castaway, Mary Archer, admits to being basically a private person, happy to find refuge ...
Arthur Scargill
10 Apr 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Sue Lawley casts away Arthur Scargill, the President of the National Union of Mineworkers...
Jane Asher
03 Apr 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Jane Asher.Favourite track: The Ode To Joy (Symphony No 9) by Ludwi...
Quintin Hogg
27 Mar 1988
Contributed by Lukas
"I would have looked forward with a great deal more relish when I was 50 and more able to look after...
Brendan Foster
13 Mar 1988
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, Brendon Foster was our most outstandingly consistent athlete, breaking world records a...
James Burke
06 Mar 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is James Burke, whose broadcasting style has been described as "turning scien...
Stephanie Beacham
28 Feb 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Until recently, the actress Stephanie Beacham played the glamorous 'rich bitch' Sable in the America...
Dennis Potter
21 Feb 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s castaway is the playwright Dennis Potter. Best known for his television series Pennies...
William Davis
14 Feb 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s castaway is the author, columnist and broadcaster William Davis. The former editor of ...
Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell
07 Feb 1988
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s castaway is the dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls dance troupe, Margaret Kelly....
Gemma Craven
24 Jan 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Gemma Craven is one of our most versatile actresses. An award winning stage performer, she made her ...
Rt. Hon. Michael Heseltine
17 Jan 1988
Contributed by Lukas
The Right Honourable Michael Heseltine MP is often described as one of the new breed of Tory politic...
Adele Leigh
10 Jan 1988
Contributed by Lukas
Of Adele Leigh, a critic once said that she put paid to the myth that to be good, a soprano had to l...
Lew Grade
13 Dec 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Lew Grade has been at the centre of British show business for more than 50 years. Now into his 80s, ...
Antony Sher
06 Dec 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The actor Anthony Sher became well-known to television audiences when he took the lead in The Histor...
Vernon Scannell
29 Nov 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Vernon Scannell's colourful career has included prize-fighting, a controversial spell in the Army, c...
In memory of comedian and writer Barry Cryer
22 Nov 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Cryer is one of our best-known comedy writers who has, for 30 years, survived the quick-fire w...
Robert Carrier
15 Nov 1987
Contributed by Lukas
As a restaurateur, broadcaster and writer, Robert Carrier's name has become synonymous with good foo...
Sue Lawley
08 Nov 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Lawley admits to being the kind of person whose tummy goes ping when she hears a certain tune an...
Bamber Gascoigne
01 Nov 1987
Contributed by Lukas
"My wife and I are great opera buffs" says Bamber Gascoigne, who became a household name when he fir...
Bernard Levin
25 Oct 1987
Contributed by Lukas
"Music would be absolutely essential on my desert island" says Bernard Levin, "I don't know what my ...
Sir James Callaghan
18 Oct 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Sir James Callaghan has the distinction of being the only politician to have held the four highest o...
Lord Killanin
11 Oct 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Lord Killanin's career has embraced journalism, the Army, film-making and writing books. He was also...
Lulu
04 Oct 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is Lulu, who, in conversation with Michael Parkinson, recalls her upbringing ...
Jacques Loussier
27 Sep 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The pianist Jacques Loussier has won fame and fortune with a style that blends jazz with the music o...
Peter West
20 Sep 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Peter West is one of our most versatile broadcasters; his television career has ranged from Come Dan...
Joanna Lumley
13 Sep 1987
Contributed by Lukas
"The music of Rossini came into my life very early", says actress Joanna Lumley, "I loved him becaus...
Kitty Godfree
06 Sep 1987
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1920s, Kitty Godfree established a list of sporting achievements that will never be surpassed...
Lord Montagu
30 Aug 1987
Contributed by Lukas
"Music is one of my great passions" says Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, "my taste is wide-ranging; from W...
Edna O'Brien
23 Aug 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is the Irish writer Edna O'Brien, whose first novel, The Country Girls, was p...
Susan George
16 Aug 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The actress Susan George began her career as a child appearing in television plays and series; her s...
Frances Edmonds
09 Aug 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Edmonds accompanied her husband Phil on two tours with the England cricket team and wrote bo...
Maya Angelou
02 Aug 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Maya Angelou inherited her love of music from her grandmother, who used to sing to her as a child at...
Kenneth Williams
26 Jul 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is Kenneth Williams who, for 40 years, has occupied a unique place on stage, ...
Elaine Paige
12 Jul 1987
Contributed by Lukas
The castaway this week is the actress-singer Elaine Paige who, in conversation with Michael Parkinso...
Robert Maxwell
05 Jul 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Maxwell was born in Czechoslovakia, the son of a peasant farmer. He arrived in Britain in Sep...
Terence Stamp
28 Jun 1987
Contributed by Lukas
When he made his film debut in Billy Budd, Terence Stamp was described as "the most beautiful man in...
Frank Bough
26 Apr 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Bough has been described as "the most unassailable performer on British television". In conver...
Michael Bogdanov
19 Apr 1987
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bogdanov's colourful, and sometimes controversial, career has included running a pub, a pros...