What’s the ‘Desert’ in ‘Desert Island’?

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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 devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley.

Since the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne. More than 3, episodes have been recorded, with some guests having appeared more than once and some episodes featuring more than one guest. In February a panel of broadcasting industry experts named Desert Island Discs the “greatest radio programme of all time”. 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.

Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work. At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly.