Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Desert Island Discs

Discussion & Talk

Podcasts

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Factual: Life Stories

Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Kirsty Young

Stephanie Shirley

Desert Island Discs: Dame Stephanie Shirley

Dame Stephanie Shirley

23/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Dame Stephanie Shirley

Kirsty Young's castaway is the entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Kirsty Young's castaway is entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley joins Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs. 

As a child, she escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport - travelling across Europe for two days in a train with a thousand children and just two adults. She went on to set up a computer programming company which made her a millionaire many times over. But she has given away most of her fortune and now is an ambassador for philanthropy. Her determination throughout it all, she says, has been to prove that hers was a life worth saving. 

Record: Mozart- Sonata in C, K. 545 
Book: AA Milne - Winnie The Pooh 
Luxury: Mother and Child by Henry Moore.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Desert Island Discs

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4