Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest-running music programme in the history of radio. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music (originally gramophone records) to take with them; discussion of their choices permits a review of their life.

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  • Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest-running music programme in the history of radio. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music (originally gramophone records) to take with them; discussion of their choices permits a review of their life. Excerpts from their choices are played (or in the case of short pieces, the whole work). At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly. They are then asked which book they would take with them; they are automatically given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work. They also choose one luxury, which must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside. Plomley enforced the rules strictly, but it is less strictly enforced today. Examples of luxuries have included champagne and the Internet. The programme's theme is By The Sleepy Lagoon composed by Eric Coates in 1930.
  • Desert Island Discs ist der Titel einer wöchentlichen Kultursendung der BBC. Sie wurde erstmals am 29. Januar 1942 ausgestrahlt und zählt damit zu den am längsten laufenden Hörfunksendungen der Welt. Derzeit wird Desert Island Discs sonntags von 11.15 bis 12.00 Uhr auf BBC Radio 4 gesendet .
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  • 29 January 1942
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  • 43 minutes
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  • Desert Island Discs
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  • Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. It was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and is said by the Guinness Book of Records to be the longest-running music programme in the history of radio. Guests are invited to imagine themselves cast away on a desert island, and to choose eight pieces of music (originally gramophone records) to take with them; discussion of their choices permits a review of their life.
  • Desert Island Discs ist der Titel einer wöchentlichen Kultursendung der BBC. Sie wurde erstmals am 29. Januar 1942 ausgestrahlt und zählt damit zu den am längsten laufenden Hörfunksendungen der Welt. Derzeit wird Desert Island Discs sonntags von 11.15 bis 12.00 Uhr auf BBC Radio 4 gesendet .
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  • Desert Island Discs
  • Desert Island Discs
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