Desert Island Discs playlists

I love Desert Island Discs. There’s just something about the program that’s almost as therapeutic as hot chocolate in a quiet cafe. The guests are normally very well interviewed (Kristy Young is ace at what she does), and the little glimpse of insights in them are an oasis of warmth. The guests’ music choices are wonderful too - I’ve always wished that I could listen to more than just little snippets of the music. So when I was listening to Mark Gatiss’ DID today, I realised it would be a good idea to create YouTube playlists of their song choices to listen to, in one continuous stream.

This is the Desert Island Disc page, if you might be interested. The BBC has, quite amazingly, made DID episodes recorded way back to the 70s available as downloads, for which you can get off BBC Radio 4’s page on iTunes too. Go run through it - there’s an amazing list of (mostly British) figures in their archives, and it’s always enlightening in some manner to listen to them.

I think I’m going to try making playlists for different DID guests I’ve listened to, and post them here in the hopes that the utility of my efforts would extend beyond my own pleasure. Here is Mark Gatiss’ DID, and here is the playlist of the music he’s chosen. Have fun!