Classic Desert Island Discs - Dame Joan Plowright
Sue Lawley talks to the actor Dame Joan Plowright in a programme first broadcast in 2006. Dame...
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Colm Toibin
Kirsty Young interviews writer Colm Toibin in a programme first heard in 2016.
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Dame Louise Casey
Lauren Laverne talks to crossbench peer Dame Louise Casey in a programme from 2021.
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Warwick Davis
Kirsty Young talks to actor Warwick Davis, in a programme first heard in 2016.
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Lindsey Hilsum is a multi-award-winning journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the...
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Donna Ockenden is a former clinical midwife who led the Ockenden Review which revealed, at the...
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Professor Carl Jones, conservation biologist
Professor Carl Jones is a conservation biologist who is best known for saving the Mauritius...
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Cyndi Lauper, singer-songwriter
Cyndi Lauper is a multi-award winning singer and songwriter. She has sold more than fifty million...
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William Boyd is the author of eighteen novels, five short story collections and numerous...
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Sir Jony Ive is a designer who is best known for his pioneering work at Apple alongside his...
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Wilhelmina – Mina – Smallman is an activist who campaigns for the safety of women and girls and...
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Stephen Mangan is an award winning actor who is also a presenter and writer. His prolific...
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Nemone Lethbridge, lawyer and writer
Nemone Lethbridge is a barrister who was called to the bar in 1956. One of very few female...
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Nick Cave is a singer and writer who, with his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has released...
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Harriet Wistrich is one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers. In 2016 she...
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Laurie Anderson is an artist and performer who came to fame in the UK with her 1981 hit O...
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Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a composer of contemporary classical music. Once called “Britain’s...
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Marianela Núñez is a Principal dancer of the Royal Ballet and Opera. Born in Argentina in 1982,...
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Gareth Southgate OBE, football manager
Gareth Southgate OBE is the most successful England men’s football manger in the modern game....
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Cher has been a global star for over six decades. Her career has spanned music, television and...
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