“You’re immersed in a different life every week,” she explains. It felt like I’d been given the keys to the British Museum or St Paul’s Cathedral! I couldn’t be happier.” With over 3,000 guests, or “castaways” as they are known, having featured on the BBC Radio 4 show since it launched 80 years ago, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir David Attenborough, Tom Hanks and Professor Stephen Hawking, Lauren admits that she struggles to whittle down her favourites. "It’s like the national treasure of radio shows. “I’ve always been a fan because in my eyes, it’s the ultimate radio programme, so I was overjoyed yet instantly terrified when they asked me to stay.
“I was originally covering for Kirsty as an interim presenter while she was poorly – which was an intimidating honour in itself because beforehand, I was an absolutely obsessive Desert Island Discs listener. “They asked me and I quite literally jumped at the chance!” Lauren, 44, tells us. Radio star Lauren Laverne has been a firm favourite in the music world since the early 2000s – and is hailed as one of the UK’s most successful DJs on the airwaves.īut arguably her most impressive achievement to date arrived when she landed her dream job as the presenter of much-loved radio show Desert Island Discs in 2018 - on which she carried out her favourite interview to date, supermodel Kate Moss.
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