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29th January 1942: Desert Island Discs, the longest-running radio show in the UK, first broadcast
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:40
Publish Date: 2018-01-28 21:05:01
Description: Desert Island Discs is Britain’s longest-running radio programme. Devised by the English radio broadcaster and producer Roy Plomley in November 1941, each episode of Desert Island Discs features an interview with a celebrity who imagines that they have been cast away on a desert island with only a limited number of home comforts. In the early years they were permitted to choose eight songs to take with them, although a few years after the programme’s inception castaways were also allowed to take one book and one luxury item, in addition to a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare and ...
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