Desert Island Discs Clips

1. Professor Sue Black: ‘It’s a gift – all they want is for the students to learn’

   Duration: 01:21

2. Lemn Sissay: ‘If you want to knit a novel – do it now!’

   Duration: 00:57

3. Alison Balsom: 'You can see children light up when they hear music'

   Duration: 00:57

4. Alison Balsom: 'I'm just very efficient with my diary'

   Duration: 00:27

5. Maurice Gran: 'Frankie Howerd was exactly as you’d expect him to be'

   Duration: 00:23

6. Laurence Marks: 'The thought of writing comedy alone fills me with dread'

   Duration: 00:33

7. Dame Judi Dench: ‘The most romantic of the names was Finisterre’

   Duration: 02:03

8. Dame Judi Dench: ‘What a nightmare!’

   Duration: 01:12

9. Dame Judi Dench: 'I do remember playing a snail...'

   Duration: 00:35

10. Dr Bill Frankland: 'I’ve enjoyed all my life despite all my near-misses'

    Duration: 02:41

11. Dr Bill Frankland: ‘I wanted to forget everything – I was starting a new life’

    Duration: 02:31

12. Ruth Rogers: ‘Not failing gives you confidence to experiment’

    Duration: 01:58

13. ‘It has to be the best tomatoes, cooked very slowly, with the right basil …’

    Duration: 00:44

14. Professor Monica Grady: 'It was an unconscious outpouring of joy'

    Duration: 01:29

15. Professor Monica Grady: ‘Nobody else has ever seen this – it’s just amazing!’

    Duration: 01:08

16. Noel Gallagher: 'We weren’t chasing it – I believed they’d come to us'

    Duration: 01:56

17. Noel Gallagher: ‘I thought - I have nothing in common with these people'

    Duration: 01:44

18. Noel Gallagher: 'How did we get here? This is amazing!'

    Duration: 00:42

19. Noel Gallagher: 'If I spend too long thinking about it, I’ll take away the magic'

    Duration: 00:44

20. Imtiaz Dharker: 'Poetry makes it possible to live'

    Duration: 00:31

21. Freddie Flintoff: ‘You can’t believe everything you read’

    Duration: 00:52

22. ‘I’m done here … what am I going to do?

    Duration: 00:57

23. Freddie Flintoff ‘We just used to smash them, it was great!”

    Duration: 00:38

24. Tony Greig: ‘I really thought I was a star then!’

    Duration: 00:44