<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains a list of miscellaneous information . Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles . (November 2016) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> In Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, the playwright protagonist, Henry, frets over his forthcoming appearance on Desert Island Discs, worrying about whether he should be honest and admit his admiration for pop music (particularly pop music derided by critics) or pretend to favour more conventionally admired music . </Li> <Li> In the 1979 British comedy film Porridge (based on the BBC TV series of the same name), criminal boss, and avid Radio 4 listener, Harry Grout stated that it was an ambition of his to one day appear on the programme . (Peter Vaughan, the actor who portrayed the character, never appeared as a guest on the show . He died in 2016 .) </Li> <Li> For the "Dibley Live" (1998) episode of The Vicar of Dibley, in which the characters are generating programming ideas for the village's one - week radio station, the chronically dull Frank originally proposes a programme called Desert Island Desks, in which he would recount his favourites from the many desks at which he has sat during his lifetime . Instead, he opts for An Hour of Frank Talking, in which he unexpectedly reveals how he came to discover his--hitherto undisclosed--homosexuality; however, none of the locals turns out to have heard the show, having anticipated a boring hour and chosen not to tune in . </Li> <Li> The 2015 National Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman featured an opening sequence in which the lead character Jack Tanner is on the show being interviewed by Kirsty Young and selects Mozart's Don Giovanni . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, the playwright protagonist, Henry, frets over his forthcoming appearance on Desert Island Discs, worrying about whether he should be honest and admit his admiration for pop music (particularly pop music derided by critics) or pretend to favour more conventionally admired music . </Li> <Li> In the 1979 British comedy film Porridge (based on the BBC TV series of the same name), criminal boss, and avid Radio 4 listener, Harry Grout stated that it was an ambition of his to one day appear on the programme . (Peter Vaughan, the actor who portrayed the character, never appeared as a guest on the show . He died in 2016 .) </Li>

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