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Back to SearchAnna Pavord
Anna Pavord, writer & gardener, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs
Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
8 years, 4 months ago
Professor Phil Scraton
Professor Phil Scraton is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. A criminologist and author, he's director of the Chi…
8 years, 4 months ago
Kay Mellor
Kay Mellor, OBE, is an English screenwriter and director best known for TV drama series including Band of Gold, Playing the Field, Fat Friends and Th…
8 years, 5 months ago
Edna Adan Ismail
Edna Adan Ismail is a midwife and campaigner. As a 12 year old growing up in British Somaliland, her dream was to build her own hospital. It took her…
8 years, 5 months ago
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam is best known for her trilogy of novels about an ex-colonial QC nicknamed Old Filth. A writer for both adults and children, she has won t…
8 years, 5 months ago
Sir James MacMillan
Sir James MacMillan is a Scottish composer and conductor. He's one of Britain's most successful living classical composers, with his percussion conce…
8 years, 5 months ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer specialist. His biography of the disease, The Emperor of All Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. A haematologi…
8 years, 5 months ago
Professor Dame Jane Francis
Professor Dame Jane Francis is the Director of the British Antarctic Survey.
She is no stranger to surviving in extreme conditions, because for much …
8 years, 6 months ago
Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass has directed three Jason Bourne films, starring Matt Damon, Captain Phillips with Tom Hanks in the title role, and the 9/11 film Unit…
8 years, 6 months ago
Dr Kevin Fong
Kirsty Young's castaway is Dr. Kevin Fong. He is a consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital London, and an expert on space medicine. He…
8 years, 7 months ago