Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is novelist Maeve Binchy. During her Catholic childhood in a small Irish... Read more

The son of Italian immigrants, Antony Benedetto started singing competitively with his brother and earned a living as a ... Read more

Johnny Mathis has been making very popular records for some 30 years. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, he recalls... Read more

Sue Lawley's castaway is comedian Dame Edna Everage.Favourite track: I Feel Pretty by Kiri Te KanawaBook: FilofaxLuxury:... Read more

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Seamus Heaney, a Catholic Ulsterman who has been acclaimed by many as the be... Read more

Maureen Lipman is perhaps best known for her role in the television series Agony, but much of her work has been in the t... Read more

The castaway this week is Lulu, who, in conversation with Michael Parkinson, recalls her upbringing in a Glasgow tenemen... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer.Born in Germany in the late 1920s, h... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is an actor who rose to fame by portraying two rather different sorts of... Read more

Jackie Collins lives in Beverley Hills, California, and writes novels, all of which appear in the bestseller lists, and ... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel. For over 20 years the guru of pop fans... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is one of Britain's leading and most controversial architects Richard Ro... Read more

"The music of Rossini came into my life very early", says actress Joanna Lumley, "I loved him because his music is so ha... Read more

The castaway in this week's edition of Desert Island Discs is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. After a lifelong d... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the captain of the England football team Gary Lineker. Apprenticed to... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the actress Sarah Miles. Discovered at the tender age of 18 by Sir La... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is actor Jonathan Pryce. Since the early 1970s, he has taken on many gui... Read more

This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is the effervescent actress Barbara Windsor. She'll be talking to Sue Lawley ab... Read more

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the American conductor and virtuoso Michael Tilson Thomas. As well as... Read more

Ken Russell has directed many films, including Women in Love, The Music Lovers, The Boyfriend and Gothic, his latest. In... Read more