"by the guest's choice of music. His contract was renewed for a further 15 shows. In the end he presented 1,791 editions of the programme stretching over 43 years. Its success was attributed to his skill as an interviewer and to his meticulous research. Plomley was succeeded as presenter by Michael Parkinson (1985–1988), then by Sue Lawley (1988–2006), and most recently by Kirsty Young. ""Desert Island Discs"" is the second longest-running radio programme in the world (after the Grand Ole Opry), and it is still running. Until late September 2009, unlike many other BBC radio programmes, ""Desert Island Discs"" was"
"Dáithí Ó Sé Dáithí Mícheál Ó Sé (born 2 June 1976) is an Irish television presenter. He currently hosts RTÉ One's Today, alongside Maura Derrane. He is also the current host of the Rose of Tralee and hosts a chat show on TG4 every Thursday night Seal Le Dáithí. His career has included stints as a teacher, butcher, bouncer, ferry driver around the Blasket Islands, ringmaster with Duffy's Circus, singing on ""Charity You're a Star"", surviving in remotest Connemara for ""Celebrities Go Wild"", ""Livin' with Lucy"", judging on ""The All Ireland Talent Show"", and one-off presenting gigs on the likes"
"board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme ""Desert Island Discs"", replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006. According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1. She returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News. On 29 September 2007,"
"is made light of by Jon Culshaw on ""Dead Ringers"". Neil Nunes Neil Nunes (born 12 December 1980) (pronounced ) is a British Jamaican continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom, and on the BBC World Service. Nunes was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and brought up in the parish of Manchester. While studying for a degree in biology at Northern Caribbean University, he became involved with the university radio station as a presenter. He then went on to work as a newsreader and reporter for radio networks in the Dutch Caribbean while at the same"
"Birthday Honours for services to Journalism. In June 2018 she appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's ""Desert Island Discs"", when her included recordings by Earth, Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Shostakovitch, Beethoven and Richard Burton, and her luxury item was an endless supply of blended Scotch. Gillian Reynolds Gillian Reynolds (née Morton; born 15 November 1935) is a British radio critic, journalist and broadcaster. The daughter of a mother who was a market trader and a father who was a seaman, she grew up in a council house in Norris Green, Liverpool. She was educated at"
"Radio 4 Extra is currently only available in stereo on Digital TV (Freeview / FreeSat / Sky / Virgin Media) and online but not on DAB as its maximum bit rate is only 80kbps, only sufficient for it to be broadcast in mono. Although the current station is a rebranding of Radio 7 and contains a similar mix of archived programming, content has been brought further in line with BBC Radio 4 with new additions based upon their schedule. These include extended versions of programmes such as ""The News Quiz"" and ""Desert Island Discs"", the broadcast of archived editions of"
"BBC Radio 6 Music. In September 2018, Lauren began being Radio 4's Desert Island Discs host when Kirsty Young took time off because of illness. Laverne was born and brought up in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in a large family. One grandfather had been a shipbuilder, another a coalminer. Her father was a sociology lecturer at Newcastle University, Dr Leslie Gofton, and her mother was a teacher. She first attended St. Mary's R.C. Primary School in 1982, where she befriended Marie Nixon, later to become a fellow Kenickie guitarist, and then St. Anthony's Girls' Catholic School between 1989 and 1994,"
"Island Discs"" hosted by Kirsty Young. His choice of music included John Cage's silent piece ""4′33″"" and Andy Stewart singing ""Donald Where's Your Troosers?"". He is a frequent guest on ""The Review Show"", ""The Mark Radcliffe Show"", the ""Today"" programme, ""You and Yours"", ""The Culture Show"", ""Never Mind the Full Stops"" and ""Have I Got News for You"". He has narrated two series of ""The Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District"" on More4 and also narrates""The Museum"" on BBC 2 on Thursdays. He has also been employed to provide voice-overs in advertisements for a laundry detergent and a branded food"
"Eoghan McDermott Eoghan McDermott (also known as Eoghan Mac Diarmada; born 15 April 1983) is an Irish television and radio presenter mostly known for hosting ""The Voice of Ireland"" in Ireland, Xfm Drivetime in the UK and narrating Love Island Australia. In addition to being a radio presenter with RTE 2FM, McDermott is also the current M.C. for the Choice Music Prize, replacing Today FM radio presenter Paul McLoone who served as the previous M.C. for the main Choice Music Prize awards ceremony. McDermott was born in Limerick but grew up in Dublin. His father is Kevin McDermott, an author."
"Dennis Elsas Dennis Elsas is an American disc jockey in New York City, whose radio and voiceover career has spanned well over forty years, most notably his more than 25 years at WNEW-FM in New York City, where he also served as music director. He currently hosts an afternoon show on WFUV in New York (90.7 FM) and weekend shows on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's ""Classic Vinyl"" (channel 26) and a live weekly call-in roundtable show, The Fab Fourum, on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Beatles Channel (channel 18). Elsas created and presents ""Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets,"" which features highlights"
"and recently divorced from former porn actor Eddie Stone Shaun Proulx Shaun Proulx (born August 1, 1968) is a Canadian media entrepreneur, speaker, authour, publisher, interviewer and radio personality, who currently hosts the weekly ""The Shaun Proulx Show"" on SiriusXM's Canada Talks. In late September 2013, during a live interview with the CBC Radio's Matt Galloway, Proulx publicly disclosed that his was diagnosed HIV+ in 2005. He has also previously contributed to ""The Globe and Mail"" and to Toronto's LGBT newspaper ""Xtra!"", and was the afternoon radio host on 103.9 PROUD FM (CIRR-FM). ""DecAIDS – Anything Is Possible"", a documentary"
"James. They live in the Cotswolds and keep rare breeds of cattle, as well as sheep, pigs, chickens, and guinea fowl. Ayres is a keen gardener and beekeeper. She is a patron of the British Hen Welfare Trust, Cheltenham Animal Shelter and Oak and Furrows Wildlife Rescue Centre. Ayres was the guest on BBC Radio 4's ""Desert Island Discs"" in 1979 and again in 2018. In 2004, she was appointed MBE for services to literature and entertainment. Audio CDs DVDs Biography Pam Ayres Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is an English poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of radio"
"Show in a station schedule re-shuffle, which will air Monday - Friday, 07:30 to 10:30. In 2014, Laverne guest-edited ""Woman's Hour"" on Radio 4, and in 2015 began hosting ""Late Night Woman's Hour"", a spinoff series. In September 2018, Lauren took over as host to Radio 4's Desert Island Discs when Kirsty Young took time off because of illness. In 2010, she published her first novel ""Candypop – Candy and the Broken Biscuits"", about rock chick Candy Caine, 15, on her journey to the world's biggest music festival, Glastonbury. The book is published by HarperCollins. Laverne was a columnist for"
"the latter as ""Desert Island Discs Revisited"". It has also previously included the addition of the programme ""Ambridge Extra"", a more youth-orientated version of long-running radio soap ""The Archers"", and an extended version of ""The Now Show"". Some programming is organised into programme blocks of similar programmes. The late night ""Comedy Club"" segment broadcasts ""two hours of contemporary comedy"" most nights of the week and is primarily hosted by Arthur Smith. A long-standing segment that remained following the change from Radio 7, it was previously fronted by Alex Riley and Phil Williams. Comedy previously available as CDs on the ""Laughing"
"view on the changing landscape of the film industry and briefly discusses his then upcoming film ""Psycho"" (1960). Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Each 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 lives and the reasons for their choices. It was"
"Dermot O'Leary Sean Dermot Fintan O'Leary Jr. (born 24 May 1973), better known as Dermot O'Leary, is a British-Irish television presenter for ITV and a radio presenter for BBC Radio 2. O'Leary's radio career began when he worked as a disc jockey at Essex Radio, but he is best known for being the presenter of ""The X Factor"" on ITV, a position he has held every year since 2007 with the exception of 2015, when he stepped down to pursue other ventures. He was replaced by Olly Murs and Caroline Flack. O'Leary was born in Colchester, north Essex, England to"
"2008 New Jersey Rose, Rita Talty. On 17 March 2014 his wife gave birth to a boy, Mícheál Óg. Dáithí Ó Sé Dáithí Mícheál Ó Sé (born 2 June 1976) is an Irish television presenter. He currently hosts RTÉ One's Today, alongside Maura Derrane. He is also the current host of the Rose of Tralee and hosts a chat show on TG4 every Thursday night Seal Le Dáithí. His career has included stints as a teacher, butcher, bouncer, ferry driver around the Blasket Islands, ringmaster with Duffy's Circus, singing on ""Charity You're a Star"", surviving in remotest Connemara for ""Celebrities"
"New York to write a book. Glover married Rick Jones, a Google executive, in April 2014. They have two children, a son, Hector, born in January 2006, and a daughter, Honor, born in August 2008. In 2014 she was made a Fellow of the Radio Academy. Fi Glover Fiona Susannah Grace ""Fi"" Glover (born February 1969) is a British BBC journalist and presenter who currently presents ""The Listening Project"" for BBC Radio 4, ""Shared Experience"" for BBC Radio 4 and ""My Perfect Country"" for the BBC World Service. Until March 2011, she was the host of BBC Radio 4's ""Saturday"
"The Now Show The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The show used to feature regular appearances by Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin (earlier series had Emma Kennedy, or occasionally Sue Perkins, for the female voices), a monologue by Marcus Brigstocke, and music by Mitch Benn, Pippa Evans or Adam Kay, but now features a much wider range of contributors. Most episodes will feature a special guest. Past guests include Robin Ince, Rory"
"Radio 4's ""Desert Island Discs"". Her choices included Joe Nichols (""What's a Guy Gotta Do""), Gustav Winckler, The Weather Girls, Barbra Streisand, and Bonnie Langford. Her book choice was ""The Ashley Book of Knots"", and her luxury item was an endless supply of the ""Daily Mail"". Her most recent play ""Silver Lining"" opened at the Rose Theatre Kingston on 11 February 2017, before touring to Portsmouth, Oxford, Cambridge, Ipswich, Keswick, York, and Salford. It's about five elderly ladies and a young carer in a retirement home which is about to be flooded by a storm. It stars Rachel Davies, Keziah"
"Derek Mooney Derek James Mooney (born 4 March 1967) is an Irish radio and television presenter, as well as a radio producer. Until January 2015 he presented a weekday afternoon programme called ""Mooney"" on RTÉ Radio 1. He is the current executive producer across RTÉ Radio 1's nature and wildlife programming On television he has often presented game shows and talent contests: his presentation credits include ""Echo Island"", ""Gridlock"", ""Winning Streak"", the ill-fated ""Cabin Fever"", ""You're a Star"", ""The Big Money Game"", """", ""The Genealogy Roadshow"" and ""Who Knows Ireland Best?"". At the end of these shows he uses his"
"Frank DeCaro Frank DeCaro (born November 6, 1962) is an American writer, performer and talk radio host. He is best known for his work on ""The Daily Show"", where he appeared as a contributor from 1996 to 2003. Starting in 2004 until 2016 he was the host of ""The Frank DeCaro Show"", a live daily radio show with producer/co-host Doria Biddle, for SIRIUS XM OutQ 106. DeCaro was born in New York City and grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey. He graduated in 1980 from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls. and from Northwestern University's Medill School"
"Steve Jones (Welsh presenter) Stephen Ashton Jones (born 16 March 1977) is a Welsh television presenter, who currently leads the presenting team on Channel 4 F1. He is best known as presenter of Channel 4's former teen schedule T4. In the United States, he is best known as the host of the first season of ""The X Factor USA"". Jones was born in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taff and currently resides in both London and Los Angeles. After starting his career as a model for ""Esquire"", Jones moved into presenting, fronting such programmes as ""The Pop Factory Awards"" with Liz Fuller"
"dansen which was broadcast on TV4, along with singer Elisa Lindström, He presented as well the second season in August 2016. He lives in Karlsham. In August 2011, Deutgen married singer and music producer Anna Neah Olsson. Thomas Deutgen Thomas Deutgen, (born 29 March 1973) is a Swedish television and radio presenter, best known as presenter of the Sveriges Radio show ""I afton dans"" (1999-2003). He has been a reporter and presenter for the local radio SR Norrbotten, and editor at the magazine Får jag lov. He has also presented the danceband music show P4 Dans on Sveriges Radio P4."
"Nick Grimshaw Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw (born 14 August 1984) is an English television and radio presenter. He is best known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1 including ""The Radio 1 Breakfast Show"" between 2012 and 2018. He is also known for his Channel 4 roles in T4 and ""The Album Chart Show"". In 2015, he was a judge on the twelfth series of ""The X Factor"". Grimshaw joined BBC Radio 1 in September 2007, presenting the BBC's youth strand Switch with friend and fellow DJ Annie Mac. He hosted the show for 9 months"
"the costume for 16 consecutive days. Jamil has been in a relationship with musician James Blake since 2015. She currently resides in London, England. Jameela Jamil Jameela Alia Burton-Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is a British television and radio presenter, model and actress. She has appeared on various Channel 4 programmes and was a presenter of T4 from 2009 until 2012 when T4 ended. She is a former radio host of ""The Official Chart"", and was co-host of ""The Official Chart Update"" alongside Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1 until January 2015. Since 2016, she has appeared as Tahani Al-Jamil"
"Island Discs"" host Kirsty Young and BBC Radio 2 DJ Dermot O'Leary. The BBC Radio coverage was co-hosted by Chris Evans and Scarlett Moffatt. Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham hosted coverage for ITV. Kay Burley, Anna Botting and Alastair Bruce, among others, hosted coverage for Sky. CBC broadcast the wedding in Canada with Adrienne Arsenault and retired broadcaster Peter Mansbridge presented live coverage that was simulcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One and CBC News Network. TVNZ screened it in New Zealand along with SBS and Nine in Australia. The wedding received 4 million views in Australia. In Fiji, Fiji"
"James Naughtie Alexander James ""Jim"" Naughtie FRSE (surname pronounced ; born 9 August 1951) is a British radio and news presenter for the BBC. From 1994 until 2015 he was one of the main presenters of Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. In July 2015 he announced, via the BBC, that in early 2016 he would retire from regular presenting duties on the programme and would, instead, be its 'Special Correspondent' with 'responsibility for charting the course of the constitutional changes at the heart of the UK political debate', as well as the BBC News's Books Editor, contributing a book review to"
"also fired and so was his producer Blaire. His sidekick Diego Ramos, was later released. Chris Booker Chris Booker (born May 20, 1971) is an American radio and TV personality. Chris Booker is a TV/radio personality and a podcaster. He has worked as a correspondent for TV Guide Channel covering red carpet events such as ""Live at the Grammys with Joan and Melissa Rivers,"" and ""Live at the Kids Choice Awards."" He also served as host of such shows as ""TV Talk,"" ""Sushi TV,"" and ""What's ON DVD."" From 2000 to 2003, Booker was a full-time VJ for MTV and"
"programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 15 July 1957. He died on 1 November 1975 at Petworth House Gardens in Petworth, Sussex, his home. His final broadcast, which was pre-recorded, was transmitted on the same day. Fred Streeter Frederick ""Fred"" Streeter (25 June 1879 – 1 November 1975) was a British horticulturalist and broadcaster. Streeter was born in Pulborough, Sussex, England, on 25 June 1879, to farm worker James Streeter and Dinah (""née"" Sayers). The family moved to Dorking in Surrey, where he was educated at North Holmwood School, and later to Reigate, after which he attended Reigate Grammar School. He"
"resigning to work freelance he wrote and narrated radio documentaries as well as writing radio plays. Returning to South Africa in 1968 he became a freelance contributor to the South African Broadcasting Corporation with a specialism in talks on campaigns of the Second World War. He died on 7 March 1989 in Johannesburg and was survived by his three daughters. Stephen Grenfell (broadcaster) Stephen Grenfell was a writer and BBC Radio broadcaster. He presented BBC programmes including ""Sports Report"". He appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 10 August 1964. Grenfell was born in"
"riding a Yamaha R6 motorcycle in BBC Two's ""The City Uncovered"". Davis holds honorary degrees from the Open University; City, University of London; Cardiff University, Coventry University and Aston University. Evan Davis Evan Harold Davis (born 8 April 1962) is an English economist, journalist, and presenter for the BBC. Since autumn 2018, he has been the lead presenter of ""PM"" on BBC Radio 4. In October 2001, Davis took over from Peter Jay as the BBC's economics editor. He left this post in April 2008 to become a presenter on BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. In September 2014, he left"
"announced that Deley would be anchoring Channel 4's live coverage of the IAAF World Athletics Championships from Daegu, South Korea. Deley began on 27 August but struggled to win the audience as many viewers complained about his stilted delivery, reliance on notes, and the mixing up of his colleagues' names. He was replaced as the main presenter on 30 August by former T4 presenter Rick Edwards, who had previously been presenting the evening highlights programme. Ortis Deley Ortis Deley ( ; born 2 June 1973) is a British television presenter, radio DJ and actor of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent. ,"