Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Palestinian author and human rights activist, Raja Shehadeh.Born in Ramallah in the West Bank, his life and writing has been dominated by displacement, struggl...

15 Jun 201438min

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the ballerina Tamara Rojo.On stage she is a principal dancer for the English National Ballet and when the curtain comes down she performs the role of the company's...

8 Jun 201435min

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the TV producer and former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter. In charge of Blue Peter for 23 highly successful years, she was responsible for the coveted Blue Peter b...

1 Jun 201438min

Rene Redzepi, Danish chef, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.His restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen has been named 'best in the world' for a fourth time, and holds two Michelin stars...

25 Mai 201434min

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer, Alison Moyet.She's won three Brit awards, sold tens of millions in record sales and her career has spanned over 30 years. It all kicked off in 1981; just three m...

18 Mai 201434min

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comedian, Jack Dee.Comedian, actor and writer, his persona is that of the laconic miserabilist - his hit sit-com was called "Lead Balloon" and his autobiograph...

11 Mai 201434min

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Professor Sir Andre Geim.Born in the Soviet Union, his early years were spent in Sochi with his grandmother, a meteorologist. And it was p...

30 Mar 201437min

Kirsty Young's castaway is the nurse & humanitarian Dame Claire Bertschinger.She's worked for The Red Cross in over a dozen countries including Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Lib...

23 Mar 201436min