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Back to SearchCaptain Eric 'Winkle' Brown
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 …
11 years, 7 months ago
Wendy Dagworthy
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 an…
11 years, 7 months ago
Roger Graef
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…
11 years, 7 months ago
Debbie Wiseman
Kirsty Young interviews the composer Debbie Wiseman.
Her work is wide ranging, but her talents are most often employed in crafting lyrical, melodic sc…
11 years, 7 months ago
Sir Roy Strong
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the historian, gardener and diarist Sir Roy Strong.
He stormed the establishment in the 1960s - a proto-meritocra…
11 years, 8 months ago
Sally Wainwright
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 ar…
11 years, 8 months ago
Marin Alsop
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the conductor, Marin Alsop.
Music Director of both The Baltimore Symphony and The Sao Paulo State Symphony Orches…
11 years, 8 months ago
Steve McQueen
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 hi…
11 years, 8 months ago
Malcolm Gladwell
The writer Malcolm Gladwell is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Always concise, frequently counterintuitive and unexpectedly begui…
11 years, 10 months ago
Guy Garvey
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 lyric…
11 years, 10 months ago