Sue Lawley’s castaway is comedian and actor John Cleese.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/4f12dd8f#p00944v0
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Desert Island Discs - John Cleese
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Desert Island Discs - Hugh Laurie
Sue Lawley’s castaway is actor and comedian Hugh Laurie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/0a7eb1db#p0093nkb
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Desert Island Discs - Stephen King
Kirsty Young’s castaway is writer Stephen King.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/706f13bc#p0093ttz
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Morrissey
Kirsty Young’s castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/d8176a1c#b00p068y
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Desert Island Discs - Tim Robbins
Kirsty Young’s castaway is the Oscar-winning actor and director Tim Robbins.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/cf82b6af#b00t0ztc
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Desert Island Discs - Stephen Fry
Sue Lawley’s castaway is comedian and writer Stephen Fry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/c0e71279#p009mfd3
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : John Peel
Sue Lawley’s castaway is broadcaster John Peel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/68922fc5#p00940m5
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : David Mitchell
Kirsty Young’s castaway is comedian David Mitchell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/88591067#b00ln1b2
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The Life Scientific - Richard Dawkins
In this BBC Radio 4 interview with Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Dawkins discusses his enthusiasm for the science that inspired the book and how he popularised the idea of the immortal gene.
Jim asks what he hoped to achieve by writing the book and finds out why he would rather be known for his science than his atheism.
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Brian Aldiss
Kirsty Young’s castaway is writer Brian Aldiss.
Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is the author Brian Aldiss. He is best known for pioneering, alongside JG Ballard, a new wave of British science fiction writing in the 1960s. He says science fiction is not so much a prediction of the future as a metaphor for the human condition; and for him, at least, writing it offered an escape route and a filter through which to view his own extraordinary upbringing. He grew up in a small Norfolk village in a very devout and austere home. While his father was distant, his mother was still suffering from the grief after her first child, a daughter, was still-born. He was the second child and even when he was very small, remembers feeling a strong sense of his mother’s disappointment in him.
The army finally offered a way out for him and it was on his return to England that he started writing seriously while also working in a bookshop. One of his early works was a short story describing the sadness felt by a boy who was never able to please his parents, which was turned into a film by Stanley Kubrick. While he remains best known for his science fiction writing - and has won every major award in the field - he has also written novels, poetry and biographies and short stories. Now, he says, he aims not for high sales but to become a better and better writer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/fab50882#p0093tnd
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