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Kirsty Young's castaway is the classical pianist, Alfred Brendel.A performer of world renown, his career spans seven decades, and he is particularly f...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the educationalist Sir Ken Robinson.Creativity - how to nurture it, develop it and marshal its power - is his preoccupation...

Professor Tanya Byron, clinical psychologist and TV presenter, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Tanya has spent the last twenty ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the former barrister and member of The House of Lords, Jeremy Hutchinson.His life spans eleven decades of British...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the naturalist, Chris Packham.TV presenter, filmmaker, writer, photographer, every bit of his work revolves around wildlife...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is businesswoman Carolyn McCall.Currently Chief Executive of easyJet, she's one of only three women in Britain in ch...

Kirsty Young interviews the comedian Lee Mack.He writes and stars in the BBC One hit show "Not Going Out". His stand-up tours do great business and hi...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the novelist and critic, Zadie Smith.First published at just twenty four her debut novel "White Teeth" garnered h...

The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Widely acknowledg...

Kirsty Young's castaway is BAFTA award-winning production designer, Eve Stewart.Her big screen credits include Les Miserables, The King's Speech and V...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and ex-UN Commissioner for Human Rights.Her professional life has been defined b...

Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Actor, comic, writer, Russell Brand is a compelling cultur...

The writer, Val McDermid, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Crime fiction is Val's chosen genre and the millions of novels she se...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cardiologist Jane Somerville.Now an Emeritus Professor in her discipline at Imperial College London she's gai...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.An author and Harvard professor he's been named by Time Magazine as one of t...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, Hugh Laurie.If life were straightforward he'd be marooned on the island because of his achievements as an Olympi...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman.In spite of being in charge of one of our leading 'style bibles' f...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the mountaineer Conrad Anker.Some of us choose a life in I.T. or event planning - Conrad Anker has opted to swing...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the out-going Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King. He has been in charge during a period of unpreced...

Kirsty Young's guest this week is the ballerina, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull.The Royal Ballet, where she was a principal dancer for almost two...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Alice Walker.Author, poet, feminist and activist, it was her novel The Color Pu...

Kirsty Young's guest this week is the artist Damien Hirst.Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; h...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sir Sydney Kentridge QC.Widely regarded as a leading advocate of the 20th century, he continues to make his mark ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera.She has counselled government and travelled widely advising on how t...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer David Almond.Most of his work is for children but the adults who populate the juries of heavyweight li...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the photographer Rankin.He started out doing fashion shoots and is very good at making pretty young things look e...

Professor Uta Frith, developmental psychologist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.Uta Frith's groundbreaking work on autism has ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew.Known simply as "Aggers" to the army of fans devoted to Test Match Special...

Kirsty Young's guest is the writer Julie Burchill.As a columnist and author she is a committed non-conformist - daring the world to take issue with he...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Terry Leahy, the businessman and former CEO of Tesco. His first job with the company was as a teenager when he worked a...