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Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead.
A consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, it is her job to try to understand the b…
15 years, 8 months ago
Dame Fanny Waterman
Kirsty Young's castaway is Dame Fanny Waterman.
It was during a sleepless night, more than forty years ago, that she came up with the idea of launchin…
15 years, 8 months ago
Tony Adams
Kirsty Young's castaway is the footballer Tony Adams.
He's one of the few people who know at first hand the pressures and joys of captaining the Engl…
15 years, 9 months ago
Lewis Gilbert
Kirsty Young's castaway is the film director Lewis Gilbert.
His career started in the 1920s when he was a child actor in silent movies. Over the next…
15 years, 9 months ago
Frank Skinner
Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian Frank Skinner.
As a football-obsessed comic whose stand-up routines were peppered with details of his persona…
15 years, 9 months ago
Gyorgy Pauk
Kirsty Young's castaway is the violinist Gyorgy Pauk.
In a career spanning fifty years, he has played with all the best orchestras and continues to t…
15 years, 10 months ago
Dame Stephanie Shirley
Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs.
As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelli…
15 years, 10 months ago
Rob Brydon
The comedian and actor Rob Brydon joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs.
Growing up in Port Talbot, South Wales, he discovered performing when he…
15 years, 10 months ago
Fay Weldon
The writer Fay Weldon joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.
The author of dozens of novels, essays and radio and TV dramas, she says …
15 years, 10 months ago
Emma Thompson
Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson.
Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of …
16 years ago