Best ever Desert Island Discs?

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Just about to have a bath and want to listen to one of these.

Whats the best one you've listened to?

David Jason and George Michael are both favourites of mine.

Gary Barlow

Billie Jean King

Tom hanks, Bruce Springsteen

Oooh tough there are so many! On a shallow level I do really enjoy David Mitchell's from about 10 years ago, he is very witty and also it's lovely to listen to in hindsight because (if you've read his autobiography you know) it was recorded in the time period where he had met and fallen for Victoria Coren but they were separated and he thought it would never happen. He speaks really sweetly about love and his hopes for the future and it's great knowing the story has a happy ending (they are now married!).

On a more serious level I did enjoy the Ed Miliband one...

I second Billie Jean King.
Very uplifting, positive, non smug, just Happy

Happy, appreciative without being gushy, person.
I loved it. I know so little about her, but she came across very well.

I always remember the Clarissa Dickson-Wright episode - funny and moving by turns, though I can’t remember any of the music she chose.

Tom Hanks is fantastic, as is Dr Sue Black. A very inspiring woman.

Noel Gallagher was good. Funniest Lee Mack.

Gary Barlow?!

Kathy Burke
Bruce Springsteen
Late Atkinson
Tracey Thorne
Nile Rodgers (for the ego!)
Martina Cole

There are literally thousands.... I love going back through the archive.

Sue Perkins and also Paul Whitehouse. Also Johnny Vegas. Very unexpectedly moving.

These are great, thank you.

Pringle, Gary Barlow was great, you don't have to be a Take That fan, give it a try.

I loved David Baddiels (also moving) and Chris Packhams (great music)

Jack Whitehall David Beckham Ed Sheehan Stephen fry dawn french

The best one I have ever heard was Dr David Nott who is a vascular surgeon for the NHS but he regularly works in war zones around the world. He is an amazing man and his interview was so moving and includes a wonderful anecdote about meeting the queen. It reduced me to tears.

Others I have enjoyed are

Bruno Tonioli
Stella McCartney
John Motson
Emma Bridgewater

David Nott, he is a surgeon who volunteered in Gaza in 2014. Absolutely fascinating and incredibly moving at the same time.

Nigel Owens the rugby referee was also great.

I did enjoy Gary Barlow and also Tom Kerridge.

Usually I prefer the less famous people, they have incredible stories to tell.

Doreen Lawrence was very moving, as you can imagine.

Crossed posts with you @likablum. David Nott is an amazing listen. I have re listened to it many times and each time it is as good as the first.

Love the archive. Alan Carr was good a couple of weeks ago....Lauren Laverne is doing a good job..x

Clarissa Dickson-Wright...that was fab. She lived....😍

Kathy Burke
Was David Nott the surgeon who was operating under fire and he continued whilst others left?
The stories are incredible, how people manage to achieve when their childhood has been quite difficult
There was a lady who described how she came to London to train as a nurse and she realised her dream or running her own hospital in her country.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099w3v2

Here's the lady who was a midwife and opened her own hospital. She is inspirational.

I really enjoyed Mark Rylance a few years back.

Victoria Wood
David Mitchell
Mainly the non-famous ones, glimpses into amazing lives that you knew nothing about.