<Tr> <Th> Opening theme </Th> <Td> By the Sleepy Lagoon by Eric Coates </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> BBC website </Td> </Tr> <P> Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 . It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942 . </P> <P> Each week a guest, called a' castaway' during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices . It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley . Since 2006, the programme has been presented by Kirsty Young . </P>

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