Best Desert Island Discs

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We listened to Prof Speigelhalter a couple of weeks ago and it was lovely - great music and a nice guy.
I also loved Ian Wright and Alan Carr (who normally irritates me)
Has anyone else got any recommendations?

It's funny how we differ.
I really don't like her or her accent.
No idea why. I have Scottish ancestry.

Another for David Nott. Listen to his when I need to put things into perspective.

Ray Winstone and Ann Marie Duff were also fantastic

Lemn Sissay! Bloody brilliant

Davina Macall.

I am embarrassed that I don't remember her full name but Sabrina ? who is a lead fire fighter and came from homelessness to this. She was amazing. She seemed lovely and her story was astonishing really.

Kenneth Williams

Kate Moss

Yes - and her book on Audible is very good too!

I loved Alan Cumming and Stephen Graham.
Oh and Kirsty Young!

Julia Donaldson, particularly when she talked about her son's mental health struggles.

@purplepencilcase thanks for that tip, I'll go and look for that now.

I enjoyed Lesley Manville's recently, but I listened to a few very old ones a while back and enjoyed Terence Rattigan's one!

Anyone hear Ronnie O'Sullivan yesterday?
What a great listen and liked his music choices too.

Bob Mortimer !

And Andrew Ramroop the saville row tailor. Made me cry.

Ronnie o'sullivan was great, so interesting what a life. I liked Anna Ford and Peter Hennesey lately.

I felt very sorry for Ronnie. He obviously loves his dad very much but what a dreadful childhood he gave him. No wonder he’s had addiction problems.

Same. Sue Lawley had the same effect on me. I think Lauren L is very good.

Gaby Logan, very moving

Wasn't it. I blubbed my way through most of it. I lost my brother as a teenager though, so it struck quite a chord.

I listened to Sir Paul Nurse's DID with Sue Lawley, recently.
That DID episode was many years ago
It was interesting in light of the subsequent discovery of his parentage, some years later.
Life can be extraordinary.
Here was a Nobel Prize winning geneticist who only discovered his parents weren't his parents but his grandparents, in his 50s.

Good grief! Thanks for that tip off, @LadyEloise1. I listened to the DID, from 2002: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0094839 and then found this, which explains what you mention above. How very extraordinary. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/aug/09/paul-nurse-birth-certificate-not-mothers-name

Stephen King

Jackie Kay and Val McDermid both good episodes

Martin Lewis
Nazir Afzal
Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
Bryan Stevenson
Bear Grylls

If you have the BBC Sounds app, I also recommend the Grounded with Louis Theroux podcasts. There are several good ones (particularly series 1) but the standout interview for me was the one with Rose McGowan.