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?

Stephen knight the writer of peaky blinders and how to be a millionaire game show - fantastic story teller
how he does his research on obscure things from the internet
would love to listen to a podcast with him on

that sounds interesting @ednclouda

Omg have just cried at desert island Jamie Dornan. How emotional fab story and some van Morrison beautiful

Why is the music chosen shortened "...for rights reasons." ?

I think it's a fees negotiation of some kind. I know it took forever for the BBC to be able to put DID up on iplayer. Something to do with the ownership by Roy Plomley's estate.

It's probably to do with R4 having a licence (or whatever the term is) as a speech radio station, not a music one, and that's why there are limits on the amount of music they can play (they don't play full tracks in the broadcast show).
There's also the fact that it costs a lot to buy the rights to play music (Richard Osman did a really good explanation around this on his podcast), so it's likely to be linked to that too.

Cher on this morning!

I listened to her on the Sunday DIDs, I find her affect quite flat, uninspiring...but having said that, I dud find myself transported back in time from listening to her and enjoying the music.

David Nott and Sabrina Cohen-Hatton were both people I hadn't heard of and whose DID was amazing.

George Michael did the DID of all time for me.

I've read Rob Delaney's book and it is unbelievably powerful.

David Nott didn't do Desert Island Discs as far as i can tell.
He did "Private Passions" on BBC but it's not available to anyone outside the UK

Sabrina Hatton Cohen's DID programme can only be listened to in the UK also.
Yet I could listen to Cher's DID.
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He did.

It's here.

Ooh! I love Neil, he's a genius IMO. I must look that out.

I'd love to hear Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ) and Nick Cave duet together.
I think their voices are similar and it would be absolutely brilliant.

I'm just coming to the end of one of my favourite episodes being broadcast now:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027l20

Nemone Lethbridge is a barrister who was called to the bar in 1956. One of very few female barristers working at the time, she encountered misogyny and was one of the trailblazers for women working in the legal profession who followed behind her.
At her first Chambers, she wasn’t allowed to share a toilet with her male colleagues and had to use the facilities in a nearby café. It was hard for her to find work and for some time she represented the Kray twins.
After her marriage to a writer, and former convicted criminal was revealed, she was forced to leave the legal profession and they moved to Greece for a number of years where both of them had careers as writers having their work filmed for the BBC.
Nemone returned to the Bar in 1981 and continues to do pro bono work at 92 years old.

Simply a terrific listen.

Mark Knopfler
Shirley Ballas
Stephen Graham
Christine McVie

I agree nauticant such an interesting life and so moving.

I really enjoyed listening to Stephen Mangan today. I've always liked him as an actor and he came across as very family-oriented, level-headed and not at all precious. The way he talked about his parents was very touching.

Mina Smallman, today, is amazing:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00282l0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

She really is extraordinary. How can someone be so uplifting, so full of hope, after all she has been through? Remarkable.

Thank you for the heafsup @OldChairMan re Mina Smallman.
An extraordinary woman.

Why has she not been given an honour at the Palace ?
When you see all the luvvies getting them.
Mina is far more deserving.
She is some woman.
I'm not in the UK so not sure re
MBE
OBE
Damehood.

Which is the higher honour ?

Mina Smallman is an incredible listen. To have such strength in the face of all she faced, a truly gracious woman. Her episode is one I will listen again to.

Today's (a repeat from last Sunday) is an utter classic:

Donna Ockenden is a former clinical midwife who led the Ockenden Review which revealed, at the time, the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history.

Considering her start in life, and, man, that was grim, her achievements in life are amazing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00297d1 

Oh I've just listened to this.

I was crying through quite a lot of it.

What an amazing woman. Truly inspirational.

I'm absolutely bowled over by what she went through, how she dealt with it, and what she has made of her life.