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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Aung San Suu Kyi. The programme was recorded on location in Naypyitaw, Burma in December 2012.Now Leader of Burma...

TV producer Beryl Vertue is Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs.In the famously fickle world of telly where last year's hero is this year's...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Martin Carthy.A highly influential figure in the world of traditional music, about fifty years ago he was at the ...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sir Howard Stringer. Now Chairman of the Board and formerly CEO of Sony, he was surely the only Chief Executive w...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer and businesswoman, Anya Hindmarch.Given her first handbag by her mother at 16, she knew that her fut...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dawn French. Her career started back when dungarees were considered a legitimate fashion choice and she's built h...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the nun, writer and broadcaster Sister Wendy Beckett.For over 40 years she's lived the life of a hermit, rising e...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles. After flirting with Communism in his te...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dustin Hoffman.In spite of his Aunt Pearl telling him he wasn't good looking enough to be an actor for the past f...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist and author, Edmund de Waal. His ceramics are on display in many of the world's major museums. They're delicate p...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the director, producer and writer, John Lloyd.His work has been making us laugh for over thirty years: Spitting I...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the critic, actress, and producer Blanche Marvin. Blanche has been immersed in the theatre for seven decades. She worked wi...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is businessman Tidjane Thiam.He's chief executive of the Prudential, but he's about as far from the archetypal "man ...

Hilary Devey, businesswoman and TV star is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. The very incarnation of entrepreneurial spirit, Hilary...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the academic & commentator, Mona Siddiqui. Born in Karachi and brought up in Huddersfield, she's a rarity - a...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the American opera singer, Noah Stewart. He's a hit in opera houses around the world and his solo CD has topped the classic...

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer Celia Birtwell.In the ephemeral world of fashion she has endured; Marian Faithfull wore her creation...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Paralympian & broadcaster Ade Adepitan. Wheelchair basketball's his sport and this year he partnered Claire Balding...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Hollywood's prototype dizzy blond, Goldie Hawn.Like most things in Tinseltown the image is somewhat at odds with the realit...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the critic and satirist Craig Brown. A prolific writer, he's lampooned everyone from DH Lawrence to Victoria Beckham and, e...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell. She was born with a degenerative condition and her parents were told she would not s...

Mary Berry is one of the UK's best-known and respected cookery writers. More than six million copies of her books have now been sold - not bad for a g...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.A child of Bengali immigrants, he started learning Indian dance almost as soon as h...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, writer and director Simon McBurney. It's 30 years since he set up the ground-breaking theatre company Complicite...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the legendary tennis player, Martina Navratilova. In an extraordinary career she's won 59 Grand Slam titles - her last just...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the architectural critic and writer Charles Jencks.Born in America, for the past four decades he has lived and worked in Br...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian John Bishop.Growing up on a Merseyside council estate, his early ambition was to play football for Liverpool -...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Egyptian writer and commentator Ahdaf Soueif.She was the first Muslim woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize and,...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Doreen Lawrence. The life she thought was hers ended when her son Stephen was murdered by a group of young w...

Kirsty Young's castaway is Margaret Rhodes. As the first cousin to the Queen, she has a unique insight into the life of the royal family. She used to ...