We asked several country hitmakers at the ACM Awards what their pick would be for a desert island album. You know how this classic conversation icebreaker game is played: You simply ask someone ...

BBC radio host Kirsty Young has won her years-long battle to build a holiday lodge on her £1.6 million 'Wallaby Island' in Loch Lomond. The former Desert Island Discs presenter, 56, had faced ...

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that a country artist would want country music as their top desert island album pick, rock artists would want rock, pop would want pop, so on and so on.

A man who made an art of living off the grid on a deserted Mediterranean island for more than 30 years has died at the age of 85, just three years after he returned to civilization. Mauro Morandi was ...

A man who made an art of living off the grid on a deserted Mediterranean island for more than 30 years has died at the age of 85, just three years after he returned to civilization. Mauro Morandi ...

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Gareth Southgate shares the soundtrack of his life. Publicity contact: RB2 The page will automatically reload.

Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Few guests in the 82-year history of Radio 4’s flagship Desert Island Discs can have made life quite so effortless for the show’s host. The grandeur of a knighthood beckons for Southgate in ...