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Back to SearchDeborah Bull
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 tw…
12 years, 10 months ago
Alice Walker
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 P…
12 years, 10 months ago
Damien Hirst
Kirsty Young's guest this week is the artist Damien Hirst.
Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative preoccupations are standard fair; …
12 years, 10 months ago
Sir Sydney Kentridge
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…
13 years ago
Jasvinder Sanghera
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer and campaigner Jasvinder Sanghera.
She has counselled government and travelled widely advising on how …
13 years ago
Julie Goodyear
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Julie Goodyear.
For a quarter of a century her Coronation Street character Bet Lynch set the gold pla…
13 years ago
David Almond
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 l…
13 years ago
Rankin
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 …
13 years ago
Uta Frith
Professor Uta Frith, developmental psychologist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Uta Frith's groundbreaking work on autism has…
13 years, 1 month ago
Jonathan Agnew
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 Specia…
13 years, 1 month ago