Umberto Eco
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Umberto Eco. His best-selling novel The Name of the Rose propelled him from the relative obscurity of his post as Professor of Semiotics at ...
12 Nov 199536min
Rt Hon Gillian Shephard MP
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, Gillian Shephard. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the importance of her roots in rural Norfo...
5 Nov 199538min
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. In 1950, her first novel The Beautiful Visit was published. Now, some 45 years later and after many other books, sh...
29 Okt 199541min
Don Black
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of the country's most successful lyricists, Don Black.Songs like Born Free and Diamonds are Forever, and musicals like Sunset Boulevard, Billy and ...
22 Okt 199534min
Richard Hoggart
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the academic and author Richard Hoggart. Nearly 40 years ago, he wrote the hugely influential Uses of Literacy. In it, he argued that the working class...
15 Okt 199537min
Alan Yentob
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the Controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his upbringing in Manchester and London, the Cathedral boarding school where ...
8 Okt 199536min
Jenny Pitman
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the racehorse trainer Jenny Pitman. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about the empathy she feels for the horses she trains and her relationship with the...
1 Okt 199540min
Maurice Saatchi
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the advertising man, Maurice Saatchi. He and his brother Charles created what became the biggest advertising agency in the world. Saatchi & Saatchi mas...
24 Sep 199537min
