We’ve all felt the effects of a good episode of Desert Island Discs – crying on the commute, laughing to ourselves in public, singing as we potter about the house. There’s something about the format ...

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 passing the time in the office, we all have a favourite ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) -- Margaret Thatcher chose Beethoven, Michael Caine picked Frank Sinatra and boxer George Foreman selected The Beatles' "All You Need is Love." They are among almost 3,000 guests who have ...

A recent dishy Maureen Dowd New York Times interview with Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner concluded, almost apologetically, with the desert island disc question: since Wenner was on a first ...

Music became a bit of a theme after the group's performance earlier in the day. Claire started to daydream about her choice of 'desert island discs' and told her housemates that she would have to take ...

Lauren Laverne is buzzing with excitement. She woke up to the news that Lizzo had given her a shout-out from the stage at London’s O2 Arena. “Lauren Laverne played my record on Radio 6 and just like ...

We asked readers to compile their top 10 lists of DVDs they just couldn’t do without—especially if they were stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere. Cast Away, anyone? I especially enjoyed the ...