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Kirsty Young's castaway is Chris Hadfield.He was the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station and took part in three space missions...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Kylie Minogue. With seven number ones and ten million singles sold in the UK, she is the third-biggest selling female artis...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the surgeon, author and former Reith lecturer, Atul Gawande.A general and endocrine surgeon in Boston, he is professor in b...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sandi Toksvig.Host of BBC Radio 4's News Quiz until June 2015, she is also a writer and comedian and recently ent...

Kirsty Young's castaway is filmmaker Gurinder Chadha.Writer, director and producer behind the films Bend it like Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach and Bride...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Right Honourable Nicola Sturgeon, MSP.Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the fifth First Minister of Scotl...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and religious leader, Lord Indarjit Singh. \nCreator of The Sikh Messenger newspaper and co-founder of the ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the mental health campaigner and Chief Executive of SANE, Marjorie Wallace.After leaving University College London with a p...

Keith Richards, member of the Rolling Stones, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Keith was born in Dartford and grew up as an only...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Sue Black.She is Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee, founder and past Pre...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Lemn Sissay.As a poet, writer and playwright, much of his work tells the story of his search for his birth parent...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Alison Balsom.Widely considered the finest classical trumpet player of her generation, she's perfor...

Kirsty Young's castaways this week are the comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.\nThey've been at the rock-face, mining for laughs, for over...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dame Judi Dench.Born into a family with dramatic leanings, she followed one of her older brothers, Jeffery, to dr...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dr Bill Frankland.Frequently referred to as the "grandfather of allergy", his achievements include the introducti...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the chef and restaurateur, Ruth Rogers.Born in America, she has become one of the UK's most celebrated cooks. Despite not b...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University.Well-known in scientific circles, at NASA an...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Noel Gallagher.He was the principal songwriter of the band Oasis - his younger brother, Liam was th...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet and artist, Imtiaz Dharker.Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for her work, her life seems a perfect refle...

Kirsty's castaway this week is the former England cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.One of the best players of his generation, he was part of the En...

Kirsty's castaway this week is the conductor and composer Harry Rabinowitz.His list of credits and collaborations read like a Who's Who of 20th centur...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Stephen Fry.Comedian, actor, writer, director, presenter & award-ceremony host - his list of accomplishments ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Rebecca Adlington - Britain's most successful female swimmer.A multiple medal winner and record breaker she's pac...

Professor Lisa Jardine, academic, biographer and public thinker, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Historian, biographer, public ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Pamela Rose.Now aged 97, she was a Bletchley Girl who spent her war years working in total secrecy, painstakingly indexing ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales.He is best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. He grew...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the farmer, and Chief Executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning.Born and brought up on the farm in Wiltshire she ru...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins.Winner of four Olympic gold medals, six track World Championship gold medals and the first ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Paul Hollywood.One of the UK's leading artisan bakers, he's a judge, together with Mary Berry, on BBC One's the G...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Pat Albeck.Born in Hull, Pat went to art school there when she was 16. In 1950, she earned a place a...