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Danny Dyer says Harold Pinter’s death sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

AOL 11 May 2025
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Dyer reflected on how he had stayed at Pinter’s home while performing in his play Celebration ... ‘Pinter dead’ ... He continued ... Dyer’s episode of Desert Island Discs will air at 10am on Sunday on BBC Radio 4. .
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Danny Dyer opens up about his 'childhood trauma' and being sent to a psychiatrist as ...

The Daily Mail 11 May 2025
Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Danny candidly discussed the trauma of being left at such a young age and how he bottled up trauma throughout his life.
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Danny Dyer reveals how a letter from his daughter Dani made him stay in rehab ...

The Daily Mail 11 May 2025
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Danny admitted that the letter made him realise the pain he had put his family through ... Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs , Danny admitted ...
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Danny Dyer Insists “Elitist” Critics Would Never Mock His Accent if He Was Black

The Daily Sceptic 11 May 2025
The Mail has the story. The former EastEnders favourite reveals on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 today how one sneering review of his work was even written in a Cockney accent. He says ... I’ve had some awful reviews about me.” ... Worth reading in full.
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Danny Dyer reveals how his EastEnders co-stars Shane Ritchie and Jessie Wallace felt about losing ...

The Daily Mail 11 May 2025
According to The Sun, Danny boldly said ... Let's get together and show them something different ... He added ... He added ... Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Danny admitted that the letter made him realise the pain he had put his family through ... .
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Rivals star Danny Dyer insists 'elitist' critics would never mock his accent if he was ...

The Daily Mail 11 May 2025
The former EastEnders favourite reveals on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 today how one sneering review of his work was even written in a Cockney accent.
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Danny Dyer: Harold Pinter was a father figure. I felt I let him down

The Times/The Sunday Times 11 May 2025
Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Dyer, 47, talked about his guilt at losing touch with Pinter in the years leading up to the dramatist’s death at the age of 78 in 2008 ...
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Jane Gardam’s dispatches from the past

New Statesman 07 May 2025
... resonant as the human dilemmas of love and loss depicted by Chekhov or Tolstoy (when she appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2017, Gardam said she would take War and Peace as her book of choice).
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Radio, Ceefax and text: the history of cricketers being selected for England

The Observer 06 May 2025
Phil Tufnell saw it on Ceefax ... David Steele was in a traffic jam ... I was like ... Steele has just been made aware of Tony Greig’s 1976 appearance on Desert Island Discs, in which he tells Roy Plomley about the moments before the Second Test at Lord’s ... Share.
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Zoe Ball pays tribute to her late partner Billy Yates eight years after his death ...

The Daily Mail 05 May 2025
In an emotional interview on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in February 2020, Zoe spoke of Billy's death and the grief she endured after he took his own life ... Speaking candidly to Discs host Lauren ...
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Billion-dollar nepo babies! Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe and Sir Paul McCartney's grandson Arthur make rare ...

The Daily Mail 05 May 2025
When asked about what song he would use to describe his relationship with the late Steve Jobs - the founder of Apple, Microsoft's main competitor - on the BBC's Desert Island Discs show, Bill used a ...
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'I can't even stand unassisted, let alone walk, but I'm looking forward to my new ...

The Daily Mail 03 May 2025
‘I can’t!’ I bleat to the physio ... It’s scary ... I answer his questions frankly for an hour and at the end I say sweetly, ‘If you need more, I can be heard talking about my deepest feelings on Desert Island Discs from 2013, available on BBC Sounds.’ ... .
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘I had to place Black and classical next to each other in a way that made perfect sense’

The Observer 02 May 2025
I appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs in January 2024 ... My truthful and understated remark on Desert Island Discs, that the song made many of us “uncomfortable” was greeted with an ...
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‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

The Observer 02 May 2025
I saw Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s cello case before I saw him – strapped to his back, making him taller ... But when he appeared on Desert Island Discs last year, he was asked if he thought Rule, Britannia! ought to be part of the festival finale ... “No.” ... Share ... .
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