![]() ![]() ![]() Actress Judi Dench, who has macular degeneration, was permitted to take an audiobook in place of a printed manuscript. Popular choices include Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. ![]() They are then prompted to select a third book to accompany them. Guests are also automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work. At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly. Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and choose eight recordings, originally gramophone records, to take with them discussion of their choices permits a review of their life. In February 2019 a panel of broadcasting industry experts named it the greatest radio programme of all time. When Desert Island Discs marked its 75th year in 2017, The Guardian called the show a radio classic. An example of a guest who falls into both categories is Bob Monkhouse, who appeared with his co-writer Denis Goodwin on 12 December 1955 and in his own right on 20 December 1998. More than 3,000 episodes have been recorded, with some guests having appeared more than once and some episodes featuring more than one guest. Since 2018 the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Įach week a guest, called a " castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their life and the reasons for their choices. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ![]()
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