"That's the last thing he said, that he wanted to see Sean."
We’re digging through the castaway archives as Desert Island Discs returns next week. Today Kirsty Young talks to the artist Yoko Ono in a programme first broadcast in 2007.
Adrian Edmondson remembers laughing and laughing and laughing with his friend and collaborator Rik Mayall, on Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne in September 2023.
This moment has been nominated in the Radio Academy Arias Awards 2024 for Moment of the Year.
Oh no, what a legend! https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4/111743684594891434
BBCRadio4@social.bbc - The extraordinary Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ and a supporter of new music and young artists for the whole of her decades-long career, has died, aged 83.
Her 2020 episode of Desert Island Discs, with Lauren Laverne, celebrates the 50th anniversary of her first appearance on Radio 1.
The extraordinary Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ and a supporter of new music and young artists for the whole of her decades-long career, has died, aged 83.
Her 2020 episode of Desert Island Discs, with Lauren Laverne, celebrates the 50th anniversary of her first appearance on Radio 1.
On BBC Sounds you'll find Joan Collins' Desert Island Discs, a real treat from 1990 - plus almost 2,500 other episodes - castaways from Patrick Grant from Sewing Bee and Richard Osman to Gracie Fields and Alfred Hitchcock and Margot Fonteyn and Cilla Black… It's an amazing collection.