Over 25,000 songs have been chosen by the show's hypothetical castaways, but what pop song has challenged the big classical hits?

14:33, Mon, May 19, 2025 Updated: 14:57, Mon, May 19, 2025 Nearly every Brit at some point in their life has played the Desert Island Discs game, whether it's at a family meal, a wedding, or even just ...

Stephen Mangan’s desert island essentials included the Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare and a piano - Clara Molden/The Telegraph As a long-time devotee of Desert Island Discs, I was tickled by ...

The BBC has completed rights negotiations with the relatives of late Desert Island Discs founder Roy Plomley to make the programme available on BBC iPlayer. Writing on the BBC Internet Blog, ...

Nick Cave has appeared on Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC Radio show which asks its guests to name the eight songs they'd choose to keep if they were banished to a desert island. Cave, whose ...

Radio 3 devotes its daytime schedule to the BBC’s Railway 200 celebrations, broadcasting in real time from the Inverness to London train line. From 7.30am, when Petroc Trelawny boards the Highland ...