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Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubtThe award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon” when it is working well, but has admitted to experi…
Actor tells BBC about his relationship with the playwright, his ‘mentor’, and how he went ‘off the rails’The actor Danny Dyer said the death of his mentor, the Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, triggered a “spiral of madness” in his life.Sp…
Speaking on Desert Island Discs, comedian revealed how she confronted unnamed man she believed ‘to be a perpetrator of sexual assault’ The comedian Katherine Ryan has spoken on Desert Island Discs about the moment she decided to confront a male comedia…
Writer of comic medical memoir This is Going to Hurt reveals surrogacy on BBC’s Desert Island Discs Adam Kay, the author of This is Going to Hurt, the bestselling “secret diary” of a junior doctor, is now the father of two babies, he has revealed.Kay,…
BBC Studios to look for overseas commercial opportunities for long-running radio show – and others, and focus on podcastsThe BBC has announced plans to hand over control of Desert Islands Discs to its for-profit division, with the aim of making more mo…
The actor, now recovered, tells BBC’s Desert Island Discs he became ‘very sneaky’ about his drinking in the early 2000sSimon Pegg faced his own mission impossible, tackling both his addiction and eventual recovery, while working on the major Hollywood …