Desert Island Discs Creators & Guests

Lauren Cecilia Fisher known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, model, television presenter, author, singer and comedian, she also hosts Desert Island Discs Podcast.

Kirsty Young is a television and radio presenter.

Alexei Sayle is a stand-up comedian, actor, author, and former recording artist, he was also a central figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s.

Pamela Ayres MBE is a British poet, comedian, songwriter, and presenter of radio and television programmes. Her 1975 appearance on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks led to appearances on other TV and radio shows, a one-woman touring stage show and performing before the Queen.

Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I. He's appeared in other films such as Hudson Hawk, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Age of Innocence.

Graham Nash is an English-American musician, singer, and songwriter.

Malala Yousafzai is an activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is a former track and field athlete, specializing in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 meters hurdles.

Martin Sorrell is a businessman, Founder of WPP, and Executive Chairman at S4 Capital.

Frances O'Grady is the General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress.

Brian Denis Cox is an actor.

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories.

John Boyne is a novelist and author of eleven novels for adults and six novels for younger readers.

Martina Navratilova is a former professional tennis player and coach.

Dr. Nicola Fox is the head of science at NASA.

Dr. Tim Spector is an epidemiologist and science writer.

Juliet Stevenson is an actor of stage and screen.

Cillian Murphy is an actor. He began his career performing as a rock musician.

René Redzepi is a Danish chef, and co-owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark.