You’re a young funky person aren’t you? People still say funky right? Well if you are you’re bound to love BBC Radio 4. And if you love Radio 4 then you must love Desert Island Discs. It’s the world’s second longest running radio programme you know. Every week a worthy guest is asked to select the 8 discs that shaped their lives while the excellent Kirsty Young gets them to reveal the story of their lives. They get to pick a book of their choice and a luxury item before being cast away with their sounds. For years it wasn’t available to download or even in the age of iplayer as a listen again due to rights issues. Happily they have been solved and the podcast has been available for general consumption since 2009.
But now there’s more. There’s a whole castaway archive. Archives are cool – they’re all dusty and have that weird smell. Over 500 episodes of the long running show are featured there going right back to 1998 to either download on itunes or listen to via iplayer. These feature a wide range of guests from Rolf Harris to David Mitchell, Emma Thomson to Lord Sebastian Coe and in time more will be added. You can also see all the guests and music choices made by guests going right back to the very beginning. It’s a fantastic resource and should provide a master class in interview technique as well as hours of entertainment.
