The year 1941 was one of the darkest in London's history. Beginning the previous September, Adolf Hitler's German army had launched a relentless bombing campaign focused primarily on England's capital ...

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The BBC has completed rights negotiations with the relatives of late Desert Island Discs founder Roy Plomley to make the programme available on BBC iPlayer. Writing on the BBC Internet Blog, ...

This weekend, Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th birthday with a series of special programmes, including yet another coup for the BBC Radio 4 staple: None other than David Beckham is becoming ...

The first episode of “Desert Island Discs” was recorded at the bomb-damaged Maida Vale Studios, in West London, on January 27, 1942, and aired on the BBC two days later. It’s an interview show with a ...

Shania Twain and Lauren Laverne in the Desert Island Discs studio. Born Eileen Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Shania grew up ...

Yesterday morning, as dawn was breaking in Manhattan, and Londoners were enjoying a late Sunday breakfast, I tuned in to BBC Radio 4 to hear the seventieth-anniversary broadcast of “Desert Island ...

The BBC aired the 3,000th episode of “Desert Island Discs,” its longest-running radio series, last week. The anniversary attracted no attention on this side of the Atlantic, however, because the ...

FOR nearly eight decades the seagulls have cawed, the waves have lapped against the sand and Britons have settled down to “By The Sleepy Lagoon”. The format of “Desert Island Discs” has hardly changed ...

Picture this: you’re stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you. By signing up, you confirm that ...

Stephen Mangan’s desert island essentials included the Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare and a piano - Clara Molden/The Telegraph As a long-time devotee of Desert Island Discs, I was tickled by ...