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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the record producer, Robin Millar.One of the UK's most successful record producers with over 160 gold, silver and...

Kirsty Young's guest this week is Bryan Stevenson.An American lawyer, he is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a priv...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the psychotherapist, Julia Samuel.Counsellor for Paediatrics at London's St Mary's hospital, Paddington, she work...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the tenor, Jonas Kaufmann.Frequently referred to as one of the greatest singers of his generation, both his paren...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Mark Rylance.Born in Kent and brought up in America where his father was a teacher, Mark played Hamlet...

Kirsty Young's guest this week is the garden designer, Dan Pearson.His style is governed by a desire to create a sense of place and he is drawn to wil...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield - a role which has brought ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Peter Piot.As a microbiologist he is known for hi...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the campaigner, Dame Julia Cleverdon.As head of the charity, Business in the Community, she fine-tuned to perfect...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, Jo Malone.If her name automatically conjures the citrusy scents of lime, basil and mandarin o...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the scientist, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, who is best known for her work in the field of neuroscience and str...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor Ray Winstone.Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast, Vincent, The Sweeney - he's probably best known for totally auth...

Kirsty Young's castaway for Christmas week is The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby.Ordained as a priest in 1993, 19 years late...

From Paul McCartney to Wham! Comedian Sarah Millican shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. Her every woman yet no-holds-barred style of comed...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Chief Executive of the Guide Association, Julie Bentley - or, more accurately, Girlguiding.The name change is...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor, Damian Lewis.As part of the wave of British talent that's crashed onto America's shores in recent year...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Right Honourable Theresa May MP - the longest serving Home Secretary in fifty years.For those who think her political l...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard.His work is studied widely in British schools. He was the BBC's first poet in residence and a...

Kirsty Young's guest is former Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - the programme's 3000th edition.The Fleet Air Arm's most decorated p...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the fashion designer, Professor Wendy Dagworthy.During her time as Head of Fashion at both Central St Martins and...

Kirsty Young's guest is filmmaker and criminologist, Roger Graef.Pioneering in his chosen subjects and style, for the past fifty years he has shone a ...

Kirsty Young interviews the composer Debbie Wiseman.Her work is wide ranging, but her talents are most often employed in crafting lyrical, melodic sco...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the historian, gardener and diarist Sir Roy Strong.He stormed the establishment in the 1960s - a proto-meritocrat...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Sally Wainwright.TV is her chosen medium and Last Tango In Halifax, Happy Valley or Scott & Bailey...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the conductor, Marin Alsop.Music Director of both The Baltimore Symphony and The Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchest...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and director Steve McQueen.These days his talents are well recognized - his art has won The Turner Prize and his...

The writer Malcolm Gladwell is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Always concise, frequently counterintuitive and unexpectedly beguil...

Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert island Discs.Front man of the group "Elbow" his voice and lyrics...

Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, Dame Wendy fought long and hard to prove that her type of web science was highl...

Doug Allan is Kirsty's castaway this week. \nHe's spent thirty-five years capturing unique footage of animals in some of the most remote and least hos...