![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly, booze featured heavily on the imaginary island, with politicians particularly keen on a tipple. ![]() Since the programme began in 1942, a total of 43 guests, including Terry Wogan and George Clooney, elected to while away the hours with Tolstoy's War and Peace, according to the BBC archive.Ĭamila Batmanghelidjh and Raymond Tallis chose the existentialist writings of Sartre and Heidegger to aid the solitude, but Proust was the philosopher of choice, featuring in at least 50 episodes. With the entire Desert Island Discs archive now available on the BBC Radio 4 website, guests' selections of books and luxuries are comprehensively revealed in all their profound, surprising - and occasionally downright odd - glory. As Radio 4's Desert Island Discs enters its 70th year, our Scraperwiki spreadsheet reveals a number of themes running through castaways' choices over the past seven decades. ![]()
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