Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, talks to Kirsty Young and...

Kirsty Young talks to artist Damien Hirst, who selects his eight favourite recordings to take...

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight favourite recordings...

Actor Martin Clunes talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight favourite recordings to take to the...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Alfie Boe. He is one of our most popular tenors and,...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the musician Roger Waters. As one of the founding members of the...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Debbie Harry. Her group Blondie started out in seedy...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, director and playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah. His creative...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the doyenne of bohemian living, Molly Parkin. She left the Welsh...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor David...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. Cheerful and practical, her products...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the pioneering fashion journalist Felicity Green. As hem-lines...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the animator and director Terry Gilliam. He first planted his...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen. In recent years he has won great acclaim...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers. A...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio. He was capped...

Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile actresses she's worked in...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson. After many years of swiping at...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist Jon Snow. For the past 21 years he's been the face...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran Coronation Street actress Betty Driver. For more than...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond. He has spent his...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Gyles Brandreth. A former Conservative MP, he is also a some-time...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran RAF pilot Tony Iveson. Aged 21, he survived being shot...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Sandie Shaw. With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning animator Nick Park. His most famous creations are...

Kirsty Young's castaway week is the aviator, inventor and arts patron, Sir Torquil Norman. He...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Frances Wood. As head of the Chinese...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the best-selling writer Robert Harris. He was, apparently, a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the rock musician Alice Cooper. As a teenager he says it was...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the cookery writer Anna Del Conte. Born to a wealthy Milanese...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. Thirty years ago he was...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Chinese pianist Lang Lang. He was five years old when he gave...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg....

Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield. He is one of Britain's leading QCs...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the founder of Storm model agency, Sarah Doukas. She has never,...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the entertainer Johnny Vegas. As a stand-up comic he made his name...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Sir Tom Jones. In a career spanning fifty years he's...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and director Kathy Burke. She became a household name for...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lord David Cobbold. He was just 32 years...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs is Lord David Cobbold. He was just 32 years...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Jimmy Mulville. He began his life in comedy as a performer and...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the interviewer Lynn Barber. A master of the profile interview,...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Oscar-winning actor, writer and director Tim Robbins. His film...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead. A consultant at...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman. It was during a sleepless night, more than...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the footballer Tony Adams. He's one of the few people who know at...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the film director Lewis Gilbert. His career started in the 1920s...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner. As a football-obsessed comic whose...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the violinist Gyorgy Pauk. In a career spanning fifty years, he...

Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. As a child,...

The comedian and actor Rob Brydon joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. Growing up in...

The writer Fay Weldon joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs. The author of...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson. Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce. His film credits include Hilary...

Kirsty Young's castaway is entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne. He made his name appearing on the TV...

Kirsty Young's castaway is space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock. She has, she says, a special...

Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. She is one of the best-loved matriarchs in...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward. He took England...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili. He's spent his adult life...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the stylist Gok Wan. Dispensing fashion advice and hugs in equal...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard. A professor at Cambridge, she's that...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank Warren. He has managed and promoted some...

Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. His books have been translated...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Portas. She's made an art-form out of turning heads, and her...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the opera director John Copley. Throughout his sixty year career...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant. He has been voted the best Dr Who ever and...

Kirsty Young's castaway this Christmas is Sir Michael Caine. In a film career that has spanned...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Sebastian Coe. It is more than a quarter of a century since his...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland. She is the government's...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Morrissey. As the lead singer of The Smiths he captivated a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose. As the boss of Marks and Spencer, he has held a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the children's author Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo is her best...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the lawyer and writer Anthony Julius. He was already renowned in...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the talk show host Jerry Springer. His life has been split between...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the scientist Professor Colin Pillinger. A world-class planetary...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the illustrator Jan Pienkowski. He was born in Warsaw before the...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and actor Steve Coogan. As a child he found he had a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur. She was 28 when she...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow. He has been a hugely successful performer for more...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Roberto Alagna. He is one of the most celebrated tenors...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell. Born in Stockport in 1933, it...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior designer, socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam....

Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Famous for...

Kirsty Young's castaway is comedian David Mitchell. Mitchell has won two Bafta awards and, as a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Hugh Pennington. Professor Pennington has spent his life...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the impresario and promoter Harvey Goldsmith. From the Rolling...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the choreographer, Arlene Phillips. In a career spanning 40 years,...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Shaw. He has been one of Britain's most popular...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Labour peer and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. He spent more than a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook. Caroline has travelled the world to...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian and performer Barry Humphries. For decades he has...

Kirsty Young invites actor Peter Sallis to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the comic and actress Whoopi Goldberg. As a child she used...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Sebastian Faulks. He is best known for his...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the scientist Athene Donald. A Cambridge professor and...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Baaba Maal. He's among the best known African...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Richard Madeley. It's 20 years since he opened the first...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Brian Rix. For many years he...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is David Walliams. He has seen...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the scientist Professor Kay Davies. She has dedicated much...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor David Suchet. He has won armfuls of awards for...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. He has performed in...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Alan Sillitoe. 50 years ago his debut novel...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman, Vince Cable. He...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet Ruth Padel. She is a highly acclaimed writer who...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the adventurer and businessman Simon Murray. What many of...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Baroness Haleh Afshar. An expert in Middle Eastern...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is James Nesbitt. He is one of our most popular and...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Oscar-winning film producer Michael Deeley. Over the...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. A professor of...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Michael Eavis. It's more than 30...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Janet Street-Porter. Born, she says, with 'frilly teeth,...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Conservative politician David Davis. Born just before...

Kirsty Young's castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is one of our best-loved children's...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti. A pithy and...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the tenor Ian Bostridge. He is regarded as one of the...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the American composer, singer and song-writer Randy...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sanjeev Bhaskar. A writer, comic and actor, Sanjeev has...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the opera director David McVicar. He is hailed as the...

Kirsty Young's guest on Desert Island Discs this week is the actress Miriam Margolyes. Her rich...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Ruthie Henshall. A West End and Broadway star...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the philosopher Professor A C Grayling. He was a child...

Kirsty Young's guest on Desert Island Discs this week is Richard Ingrams. Former editor and a...

Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is the writer Antonia Fraser. Born...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is one of the world's leading interior designers, John...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the soprano, Dame Felicity Lott. She is one of Britain's...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cook Antonio Carluccio. He's been hailed as perhaps...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week the cartoonist, writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds. Her...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the pioneering surgeon Professor Ara Darzi. He was born in...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Peter Carey. He says he grew up in his homeland...

Kirsty's castaway this week is the comedian and actor, Bill Bailey. Lauded for his hugely...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the composer Howard Goodall. He's a man of eclectic...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the MP Diane Abbott. She was the first black woman to...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is one of our most successful singer-songwriters, Annie...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Penelope Wilton. Her first love is the theatre...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cartoonist Mac. He's been the Daily Mail's cartoonist...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the radical thinker, writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali....

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Liz Smith. Her story is a triumph of talent...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor and singer Michael Ball. For more than 20 years...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster David Dimbleby. When he was born, in 1938,...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor Sir Martin...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Oleg Gordievsky. He is the highest-ranking KGB officer...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Dame Beryl Bainbridge. She grew up in...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the former diplomat, traveller and writer, Rory Stewart....

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sir Simon Rattle. For the past five years he has been...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys. For 21 years...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the businesswoman Karren Brady. She is known as the First...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Victoria Wood. For decades she has been one of our...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Paul Weller. As the lead singer of The Jam,...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys - the scientist who discovered...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cellist Steven Isserlis. It is, perhaps, little...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Armistead Maupin. Regarded as one of the 'great...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller. She has recently stepped...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Jung Chang. Jung was born in the years after...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Nicholas Parsons. Actor, quizmaster, cabaret performer,...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Joel Joffe. For many years he was the chairman of Oxfam,...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is an entertainer so central to British popular culture he...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Jill Balcon. She has the voice of an old...