Piers Morgan
Kirsty Young's castaway is journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. He spent more than a decade as a Fleet Street editor and pioneered a style of journalism that devoured the day-to-day lives of celebrities. Now, he has become something of a celebrity himself, fronting a TV interview programme and sitting as a judge on both America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent. He is, according to one friend, 'the ultimate proof that self-confidence and self-belief can become a self-fulfilling prophecy'.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Mambo Italiano by Dean Martin
Book: An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
Luxury: My cricket bat.
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The Rolling Stones
Start Me Up
- Forty Licks.
- Virgin.
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Charles Aznavour
For Me... Formidable
- 20 Chansons D’Or.
- EMI.
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Castaway's Favourite
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Dean Martin
Mambo Italiano
- The Best of ‘The Capitol Years’.
- Capitol.
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Chris Potter
Yesterday
- Underground.
- Universal Music.
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The Beatles
Let It Be
- Let It Be.
- Parlophone.
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Original Broadway Cast
Sunset Boulevard
- Sunset Boulevard.
- Really Useful.
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Stevie Wonder
You and I
- Ballad Collection: Stevie Wonder.
- Motown.
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Monty Python
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
- The Best Comedy Album in the World ever.
- Virgin.
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Book Choice
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An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
Luxury Choice
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My cricket bat
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Kirsty Young |
Interviewed Guest | Piers Morgan |
Broadcasts
- Sun 7 Jun 2009 11:15BBC Radio 4
- Fri 12 Jun 2009 09:00BBC Radio 4
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