Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure

Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventur...

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Tulisa: I wanted fame, but it almost destroyed me

N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos survived betrayal and a tabloid sting.Tulisa was born into a family of musicians in Camden, London, and says music was part of her everyday life. But her childhood was impacted by her mother's severe mental health episodes that would often end up ...  عرض المزيد

The ragtag boy who was taken in by a football icon

The incredible story of the football icon who changed a boy's life. Craig Bromfield's start in life was difficult: there was often no electricity in his childhood home, and he didn’t even own a coat. He was in and out of the social care system, and would ask for money on the stre ...  عرض المزيد

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Tom Ilube, entrepreneur
Desert Island Discs

Tom Ilube is an entrepreneur, known for his successful start-up companies, and a philanthropist. He recently took up the post of chairman of the Rugby Football Union. He was born in 1963 to a Nigerian father and a British mother, and grew up first in London, and then in Uganda, a ...  عرض المزيد

Baaba Maal
This Cultural Life

Now one of West Africa’s most internationally acclaimed musicians, Baaba Maal trained at a Paris conservatoire and went on to become a kind of musical ambassador, taking stories of his homeland all around the world. He has collaborated with Brian Eno and film composer Hans Zim ...

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Charlotte Church, Reverend Eve Pitts, Clare Mackintosh, Guz Khan
Saturday Live

Today we welcome singer-songwriter, television presenter and sound healing practitioner, Charlotte Church.

Reverend Eve Pitts, one of the first Black Caribbean Vicars in the Church of England and a campaigner for racial justice.

Former police officer turned best-s ...

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Bill Nighy
Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005

This week Sue's castaway is the award winning actor Bill Nighy. Originally from Caterham in Surrey, he left school at 15 without any qualifications and ended up working at his local employment office. He hoped to become an author and began work on The Field magazine as a messenge ...  عرض المزيد