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 ...

Salman has fond memories of growing up in Mumbai [formerly Bombay], he tells presenter Lauren Laverne, like eating coconuts ...

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

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 ...

Including the likes of Prince, Stevie Wonder, Robert Johnson, Ray Charles Muddy Waters and more, Eric Clapton picks his 8 ...

Author Sir Salman Rushdie has revealed his late friend, singer Lou Reed, told him one of his best known songs Walk On The ...

Jony Ive has often been a mysterious and guarded personality, and any insight into his mind has always been interesting. So Ive’s appearance today on the BBC’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ was sure to be ...

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Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young has revealed that Sir David Attenborough has been her favourite guest on the BBC Radio 4 show so far. The veteran wildlife television presenter appeared as a ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

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 ...