BBC英国广播电台的经典王牌节目《荒岛唱片》走过了70多年。

   由BBC四台（Radio4）播出的这档音乐聊天节目每次请来一位嘉宾，谈论的话题是：送你到一个无人的荒岛上，你只能带八张唱片，一本《圣经》和莎士比亚全集以外的书，一件没有实际用途的奢侈品，你会带什么，为什么？

  
Guests are invited to imagine themselvescastawayon adesert island, and to choose eight piecesof music, originally gramophone records, to take with them;discussion of their choices permits a review of their life.Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of shortpieces, the whole work.^[2]Atthe end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard mosthighly. They are then asked which book they would take with them;they are automatically given theComplete Works ofShakespeareand either the Bible or another appropriatereligious or philosophical work.

    围绕着这些选择，主持人会和嘉宾一起讨论与其相关的过往生活。

   《荒岛唱片》由它的第一任主持人、英国着名电台DJ 罗伊·普拉姆利（ Roy Plomley ）创办。自从这挡节目在1942年1月29日首播以来，已经走过70多年。

Host(s)

Roy Plomley
(1942-1985)
Michael Parkinson
(1985-1988)
Sue Lawley
(1988-2006)
Kirsty Young
(2006-present)

     在这70年里，被嘉宾挑选最多的音乐是贝多芬的《第九交响曲》。其次是法国著名女歌星伊迪丝?琵雅芙EdithPiaf演唱的名曲《我无怨无悔》（Je Ne Regrette Rien）。

The most requested music over the first 60 years was "Ode toJoy", the last movement ofBeethoven's Ninth Symphony.

    在嘉宾挑选的2881件带到荒岛上的奢侈品中，有183架钢琴（pianos）、五把长号（trombones）、阿尔伯特纪念碑（theAlbert Memorial）和一个芝士汉堡制作机（cheeseburger machine）。

    从第一集播出到现在，《荒岛唱片》采访了许多名人和普通人。

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests are listed here.

Very rarely, programmes will be repeated in place of new shows as a tribute to former guests who have recently died – for example Radio 4 repeated Humphrey Lyttelton's show, originally aired on 5 November 2006, on 15 June 2008. Desert Island Discs takes two short breaks, in April and August/September. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts new programmes for approximately 42 weeks each year on Sunday mornings, usually with a repeat transmission five days later. On Remembrance Sunday (in November) the programme is not broadcast but that week's programme gets a single airing in the Friday repeat slot.

From mid-2011 selected episodes have been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and also on BBC6 Music. The episodes on BBC Radio 4 Extra have included some 60-minute versions of the show; many of these open with additional lead-in and lead-outs from presenter Kirsty Young, often featuring sections of other interview footage or recordings featuring the guest of the episode in question. Some, but not all, of these extended versions, also feature extended in-programme material not used on the original broadcast. Episodes repeated on BBC6 are those concerning musicians and figures in the music industry.

• 1942–1946: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–1946)
• 1951–1960: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–1960)
• 1961–1970: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970)
• 1971–1980: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1971–1980)
• 1981–1990: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–1990)
• 1991–2000: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1991–2000)
• 2001–2010: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–2010)
• 2011–present: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2011-present)

See also:

List ofDesertIsland Discsepisodes