Desert Island Discs

BBC

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Episodes

T C Fairbairn

Professor Dame Parveen Kumar

Matt Haig, writer

Richard Osman on managing his eating disorder

Penelope Keith on knowing her Shakespeare

Anthony Joshua on his love for his mother

Kathy Burke on being saved by punk as a moody teenager

Stephen Mangan on why he'll never be Bond

How Nick Cave's songs reveal themselves painfully to him

Meera Syal on holding up a mirror to British society in Goodness Gracious Me

Why Lyse Doucet doesn't want to be called a war reporter

Gareth Southgate on putting on the England shirt for the first time

Michael Sheen on his father's time as a Jack Nicholson impersonator

Rick Rubin on finding the magic in music

Caitlin Moran on the smells that defined her childhood

Romesh Ranganathan on finding his comedy sweet spot

Tanni Grey-Thompson on winning four Olympic golds in Sydney

Greta Gerwig on her childhood enthusiasm for putting on plays

James Graham on his "stripping vicar" ice-dancing routine

Jessica Ennis-Hill on the moment she won Olympic gold