Absent Friends 2025

Supporting Content

• The Desert Island Discs podcast

  Subscribe or download individual episodes.

  • Explore all of the Desert Island Discs podcasts

  

• Listen to over 2,000 programmes

  Click above to browse castaways, from 1942 to today.

  • Or use the BBC search to find a castaway. To search, type ‘Desert Island Discs’ plus the castaway’s name.

  

• Articles

  Read the surprising things we've learned about some stand-out castaways.