Desert Island Discs Revisited

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Selected castaway gems from the BBC Desert Island Discs archive.

Desert Island Discs Revisited: Doctor Who at 60: Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Doctor Who at 60

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Actor Matt Smith is castaway by Kirsty Young.

From Marvin Gaye to Pink Floyd. Actor Matt Smith shares his castaway music choices with Kirsty Young. From March 2018.

Actor Matt Smith shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Matt is best known as the eleventh Timelord in the BBC ONE series, Doctor Who. At 26, he became the youngest actor to take the part. 

His future looked set to be in football: he played at youth level for Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City until a serious back condition ended his highly promising career prematurely. 

His drama teacher encouraged him to take up acting and he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at the University of East Anglia. He played Lockwood in the National Theatre's touring production of The History Boys and was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award for his performance in Polly Stenham's That Face. He also appeared as a political researcher in the BBC Two parliamentary drama, Party Animals. 

Despite being a surprise choice to play The Doctor in 2009, he became the first actor to be nominated for a Bafta television award for his performance in this role, and has won two National Television Awards. When he left Doctor Who at the end of 2013, he appeared on stage as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: The Musical. 

In 2016 he took the part of HRH Prince Philip Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh, in the Netflix series The Crown, and received great acclaim, leaving the role at the end of the second series in late 2017. 

DISC ONE: Roll With It - Oasis
DISC TWO: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
DISC THREE: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
DISC FOUR: For An Angel (E-Werk Club Mix) - Paul van Dyk (featuring Rachel McFarlane) 
DISC FIVE:  Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire
DISC SIX:  Juicy (Radio Edit) - The Notorious B.I.G.
DISC SEVEN: Giacomo Puccini's Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Herbert Adler
DISC EIGHT:  All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem

BOOK CHOICE: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
LUXURY CHOICE: Endless supply of English Breakfast Tea
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broacast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

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