I've been enjoying Desert Island Discs the past year or so. In fact, I now have a reason I want to be famous. I love that John Peel cried while stuck in traffic on the M6 near Stoke the first time he heard Teenage Kicks played by someone else on the radio:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00940m5With Desert Island Discs, I've even found myself liking people I wasn't particularly enamoured by, so I gave myself the ultimate challenge of downloading an episode by someone I didn't like at all. I no longer strongly dislike this person. It was more because I found them annoying, I think, which isn't a good reason to dislike someone, although they are in the entertainment business.
One of the best episodes I've heard is with David Nott. I'll let him off for choosing Coldplay:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07djzyqI'd got used to Kirsty Young, and Lauren Laverne has taken over. She's pretty good, and obviously interested in the music and her guests. Why did Kirsty Young always address everyone by their full name every time? There was one exception I can't remember.