Desert Island Discs
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Oct 29, 2026
Jack ThorneGUEST
So it was a huge amount.
Richard BaconHOST
I listened to you on Desert Island Discs.
Richard BaconHOST
I've listened to your interviews and read interviews with you.
Richard BaconHOST
But your parents both strike me as just being very good people.
Jack ThorneGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Richard BaconHOST
Never complaining about this thing that's taken away his vision.
Richard BaconHOST
But on Desert Island Discs, you cried about your father.
Richard BaconHOST
Yes.
DavidNARRATOR
Sunday worship is on Radio 4 at 10 past 8 in the morning.
DavidNARRATOR
Lauren Laverne's guest today on Desert Island Discs is the consultant gastroenterologist Professor Dame Parveen Kumar on Radio 4 at 9 a.m. and repeated on Friday at 9 a.m. Radio 3 celebrates the 90th birthday of American composer Steve Reich at 3 p.m. on Radio 3, followed by two concerts of his works at 4.30 and 6 p.m. the BBC Concert Orchestra presents a celebration of hits from ABBA and the Bee Gees, and that's on Radio 2 at 8pm.
DavidNARRATOR
BB6 Music presents Stuart McConey's Freak Zone, featuring a world-exclusive broadcast of the Pet Shop Boys' new recording of A Man from the Future, a musical homage to Alan Turing.
DavidNARRATOR
Freak Zone is on BB6 Music at 8pm, followed by Unclassified on Radio 3 at 11.30pm. And there's a double bill of vintage comedy today.
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DavidNARRATOR
Radio 3 in concert this evening comes from Glasgow City Halls with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra and music from William Jeths and Mahler.
DavidNARRATOR
Radio 3 at 7.30pm.
DavidNARRATOR
The Berkus Way, a series of comedy sketches is today's vintage comedy and that's on BBC Radio 4 Extra at 7.30am, 12.30pm and 6.30pm. And then finally, Friday the 9th of October, the repeat of last Sunday's Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne and her guest, Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, is on Radio 4 at 9am.
DavidNARRATOR
The drama Vivian the Blockbuster by Californian author Alwyn Wymark is on Radio 4 Extra at 2.30pm. Friday night is Music Night.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
speaker_1HOST
Well, this is one movie you would recommend, and by that I mean sort of one movie you would do a sort of Desert Island Discs with.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, yeah,
speaker_0HOST
yeah,
Naomi KleinGUEST
We went back to the States for a little while, and then he decided that we should go back to Canada.
Louis TherouxHOST
And you made it sound as though, I mean, this is based on listening to your appearance on Desert Island Discs on the way here.
Naomi KleinGUEST
We talked about Blondie on that
Louis TherouxHOST
one.
LiamHOST
And I wonder to myself if there are listeners who go, when they hear that, like, that's a nice soft landing, that's a nice bit of familiarity.
LiamHOST
Like the start of Desert Island Discs, that theme tune.
LiamHOST
Each week we get a genuine pub quiz sent in from a genuine quiz master.
LiamHOST
This week's quiz comes from Charlie, who writes...
MikeHOST
The first point of which is, Do you mean just this genre for, like, they should be able to be performed with distortion? No, I just mean all genres.
MikeHOST
So, like, you picked, like, Cannonball on your Desert Island Discs episode.
MikeHOST
What does that sound like with distortion?
RobHOST
No, I mean for the heavier acts.
Georgie WoolensGUEST
Exactly.
Maggie Gordon-WalkerHOST
So I like to think of this being like the Desert Island Discs equivalent.
Maggie Gordon-WalkerHOST
So Georgie, what would be your matrescence disc? Something that you associate with something along your motherhood journey?
Georgie WoolensGUEST
So Mum Love, we use the Natasha Benningfield track a lot, which is around identity.
Graham FarmeloGUEST
No.
Graham FarmeloGUEST
His parents would say he was very selfish, right? As a young boy, they thought he was quite selfish, right? When he was talking on Desert Island Discs, I think he said something to the effect, if I wasn't like this, I wouldn't be sitting here.
Graham FarmeloGUEST
You know, you have to be quite demanding when you have this.
Graham FarmeloGUEST
He could occasionally... be not as generous as we'd have liked him to have been.
Fanny LumsdenGUEST
Oh, my God.
Savva SavasHOST
Did you hear her on Desert Island Discs in 1980? Oh,
Fanny LumsdenGUEST
my God, I haven't heard any of this.
Fanny LumsdenGUEST
I have so much I want to do.
Pamela BolandHOST
We speak about everything from the Australian music industry to his love of the Beatles and the tracks that he couldn't live without.
Pamela BolandHOST
That was what he wanted to bring in, a true Desert Island Disc style podcast.
Pamela BolandHOST
We started by talking about nostalgia.
Pamela BolandHOST
and music listening, if he feels nostalgic for his own body of work and for his own music that he's made.
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