Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Oscar Winners 2: Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Desert Island Discs Revisited, Oscar Winners 2, Steve McQueen

British artist and film-maker Steve McQueen is Kirsty Young's guest. From 2014.

4 Extra Debut. From Prince to Miles Davis. Artist and film-maker Steve McQueen shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2014.

From Prince to Miles Davis. 

Turner prize-winning artist and director, Steve McQueen shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. 

Steve's 2013 film '12 Years a Slave' won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards. He is the first black British director to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Along with reaching the top of two professions he has also managed to please the diverging demands of his parents - his father wanted him to get a trade, his mother urged him to do what he wanted. 

He says, "I want to make films that are essential. We're all going to die and we haven't got a lot of time on this planet. Life goes very quickly, so we might as well make films people will go to see because they need it or want it."
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Oscar Winners 2

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A collection of Oscar-winning actor castaways sharing their desert island choices.

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