Image: Roy Plomley relaxes on his desert island for an Arena Special in 1981. Desert Island Discs was devised by Roy Plomley, who presented the first edition on 29 January 1942. It was recorded ...

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Nick Cave has appeared on Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC Radio show which asks its guests to name the eight songs they'd choose to keep if they were banished to a desert island. Cave, whose ...

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Europe's beautiful "desert island" has no homes or roads, and its secluded beaches are some of the quietest in the Algarve. The strip of water disconnecting it from the mainland allows natural ...

Over 1,200 National Grid workers on Long Island will review a contract offer after an extended bargaining session that left them without one for roughly 24 hours. The employees, who include power ...

Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

A stunning home in Morocco demonstrates that you can live off-grid and still live in luxury. The home, located in the desert in Al Haouz, Morocco, is made from thick mud bricks and uses two ancient ...

National Grid on Friday made its “best and final” contract offer to its unionized workforce of nearly 1,200 employees, who will review it in coming weeks and take a vote to accept or reject it.

If Obiter has a criticism of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, it’s that it doesn’t have nearly enough solicitors on. So it was a nice surprise to tune in and find out the castaway was Harriet ...