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25/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Your Desert Island Discs, 25/12/2011

Kirsty Young presents listeners' castaway choices. With Bill Bailey and Jo Whiley.

Kirsty Young presents a collection of stories and music where listeners are the castaways and, with guests Bill Bailey and Jo Whiley, considers the favourite Christmas choices.

Kirsty Young presents a festive collection of stories and music from Your Desert Island Discs where listeners are the castaways. Kirsty and her studio guests - broadcaster and Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, comedian, actor and musician Bill Bailey and composer and conductor Debbie Wiseman - mull over the choices of Christmas and comedy songs. They'll also discuss some of the musical choices inspired by the castaways' stories from rock to reggae and Beethoven to the Bee Gees, and consider the enduring appeal of record sleeves and the pleasures of singing together. 

Producer: Alison Hughes.

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Kirsty Young presents tracks that listeners have chosen to take to a desert island

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