09.11.2009 12:07
What’s on?: Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is one of Radio 4's most popular and enduring programmes. It was created in 1942 and has been regularly broadcast ever since. The format is simple: each week a guest is interviewed and invited to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island.

They also choose a favourite book (excluding the Bible or other religious work and Shakespeare - these already on the desert island!) and a luxury which must be inanimate and have no practical use.

Over the last few years, castaways have included Lord Healey, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer; the American actress Whoopi Goldberg; the German singer Thomas Quasthoff; Nobel prize winner, Professor Martin Evans; a solo yachtswoman, a countess and a KGB defector.

Tune in and find out who this week's castaway is - and listen to their choice of