Actor Danny Dyer became a household name when he joined the cast of EastEnders as Mick Carter, landlord of the Queen Victoria pub. He recently stole the show from some stiff competition playing Freddie Jones in the television adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel Rivals which won him a Royal Television Society Award for Best Supporting Actor.Danny was born in Custom House, East London in 1977. He loved drama at school and, with his teacher’s encouragement, he signed up for after-school classes in north London which were run by a charity called Wac Arts. When he was 14 he was cast in the television drama Prime Suspect 3 alongside Helen Mirren and David Thewlis. He went on to star in a series of films including Human Traffic and Football Factory. In 2000 he played the waiter in Harold Pinter’s new play Celebration and went on to appear in two other productions by the playwright - No Man's Land and The Homecoming.In 2013 he took over the Queen Vic and his performances earned him three National Television Awards. He appeared on the BBC genealogy programme Who Do you think you Are? in 2016 and discovered he was descended from King Edward III and related to Thomas Cromwell. Danny lives in Essex with his wife Jo. They have three children and three grandchildren.DISC ONE: Slave to Love - Bryan Ferry
DISC TWO: Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
DISC THREE: Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson
DISC FOUR: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
DISC FIVE: Playing with Knives - Bizarre Inc
DISC SIX: Columbia - Oasis
DISC SEVEN: Nebraska - Lucy Rose
DISC EIGHT: Wicked Game - Chris Isaak BOOK CHOICE: Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft: A Handbook of Survival
LUXURY ITEM: A Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Playing with Knives - Bizarre Inc Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne, screenwriter and playwright, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item he would want with him if cast away on a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Dame Joan Plowright
Sue Lawley talks to the actor Dame Joan Plowright in a programme first broadcast in 2006. Dame Joan died in January at the age of 95.
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Classic Desert Island Discs - Colm Toibin
Kirsty Young interviews writer Colm Toibin in a programme first heard in 2016.
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Lindsey Hilsum, journalist
Lindsey Hilsum is a multi-award-winning journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the past four decades. She has been Channel 4’s international editor for the past 22 years and has reported on every continent except Antarctica. After studying French and Spanish at University, she worked as an aid worker in Mexico and Kenya before becoming the East Africa stringer for the BBC World Service. After realising her calling was journalism she devoted her career to covering events around the world including the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the 2003/4 war in Iraq.She also spent two years in Beijing as the China correspondent for Channel 4 News.Among her many awards for her work, she has been named Amnesty International Journalist of the Year, RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year and has received the Charles Wheeler Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism. She is also the author of three books. When she is not abroad reporting, Lindsey lives in London.Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
.DISC ONE: Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
DISC TWO: Carey - Joni Mitchell
DISC THREE: Shauri Yako - Orchestra Super Mazembe
DISC FOUR: Summertime - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
DISC FIVE: Hurricane - Bob Dylan
DISC SIX: The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra): Andante cantabile "Transformation" Composed by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang and performed by Lü Siqing and the Taipei Orchestra, conducted by Yiu-kwong Chung
DISC SEVEN: Piece of My Heart - Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis Joplin
DISC EIGHT: Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Fairport ConventionBOOK CHOICE: Collected Poems by W H Auden
LUXURY ITEM: A Tang Dynasty horse
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Carey - Joni Mitchell
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