Ms Suu Kyi's selection on Desert Island Discs can be heard on BBC iPlayer.

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"I'd learn the lines and say them, hopefully at the right time, " he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

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He once told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that his ultimate luxury would be a "stash of cigarettes".

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Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ford said she would not go back in front of the camera.

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French was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last December, where she spoke on the programme about the end of her marriage to Henry.

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last month, Sir Terry Leahy also called some High Streets "medieval, " saying the way people lived their lives had changed.

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This was followed by a three-year stint on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he was successor to the late Roy Plomley, who had created the castaway show.

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I'm pretty sure Ann Mallalieu is my only Sunday Politics guest so far who's also featured on Desert Island Discs (where she chose Twist and Shout as her first record).

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"I was always one of these kids who had the smart back-answer in school - a right hard-faced, cheeky young man, " he told Roy Plomley on a 1972 edition of Desert Island Discs.

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"I suppose all politicians are like, in the end, crazed wasps in a jam jar, each individually convinced that they are going to make it and get out and survive, " he told Desert Island Discs.

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