Desert Island Discs Creators & Guests

Kirsty Young is a television and radio presenter.

Joanna Lumley is an actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist.

Kathy Burke is an actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director.

Alan Carr is an English comedian, radio presenter, television personality, and writer.

Andrew Neil Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter, radio dramatist, novelist and actor.

Patricia Greene is a television & film actress and voice actor for The Archers Podcast.

Paul O'Grady is an English comedian, broadcaster, actor, writer, and former drag queen who achieved mainstream television success in the 1990s for his act Lily Savage. He has since gone on to achieve success with television and radio presenting.

Baroness Floella Benjamin is a broadcaster actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman, and politician.

Alan Titchmarsh is an English gardener and broadcaster.

Martin Lewis OBE is a journalist and television presenter. He founded the website Money Saving Expert.

Martin Freeman is an actor.

Miriam Margolyes is an actress.

Hugh Laurie is an English actor, comedian, and musician, best known for starring on the medical drama series House (2004–2012). He received two Golden Globe Awards and many other accolades for portraying Dr. Gregory House on the Fox television show. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination.Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry. The two men acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie's other roles during this time include the period comedy series Blackadder and the films Sense and Sensibility (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996), The Borrowers (1997), and Stuart Little (1999).Laurie has won three Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and has been nominated for 10 Primetime Emmy Awards. Outside of acting, Laurie released the blues albums Let Them Talk (2011) and Didn't It Rain (2013), both to favourable reviews, and authored the novel The Gun Seller (1996). He was appointed OBE in the 2007 New Year Honours and CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.

Charlton "Charlie" Brooker is an English humourist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter he is the co-creator of the anthology series Black Mirror and also co-hosts the 10 O?Clock Live Podcast.

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, screenwriter, comedian, columnist, and editor of the magazine Private Eye.

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician, actor and presenter, he has pursued a solo career and presented a BBC Radio 6 Music show called Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service, now he hosts the Wireless Nights Podcast.

Howard Goodall is a composer, lyricist, writer, and broadcaster.

Whoopi Goldberg is an actress, comedian, author, and co-host of The View.

Frank Warren is a boxing manager and promoter.