Desert Island Discs Quiz

Guess the celebrity based on the eight records they chose to take to a desert island as part of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
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Song
Occupation
Celebrity
Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue
Politician
David Cameron
Benny Hill: Ernie
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Felix Mendelssohn: O, for the wings of a dove
Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees
The Smiths: This Charming Man
R.E.M.: Perfect Circle
The Killers: All These Things That I've Done
Johann Sebastian Bach: The gigue from Bach's Partita No. 1 in B flat major
Comedian, actor, writer
Stephen Fry
Franz Schubert: Variations 2 & 3 from Schubert's Piano Quintet in A
Ludwig van Beethoven: Presto – Quartet Op. 131 in C-Sharp minor
Nina Simone: I Wish I Knew how it would feel to be Free
Richard Wagner: O sink hernieder , Nacht der Liebe
Hugh Laurie: Changes
Ella Fitzgerald: Do I Love You?
Arthur Wood: Barwick Green
The Drifters: Saturday Night at the Movies
Sport: Swimming
Rebecca Adlington
Spice Girls: Wannabe
Brad Kane & Lea Salonga: A Whole New World
Eric Carmen: Hungry Eyes
Shannon Noll: Shine
Florence + the Machine: Dog Days are Over
Elbow: One Day
Ed Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Farewell to Stromness
Actress
Judi Dench
Count Basie: All Right, Okay, You Win
Jeffrey Dench & Jackie Williams: Sonnet 18, Shall I Compare Thee …
Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
Dorothy Collins: Losing My Mind
Frank Sinatra: I've got you Under My Skin
Cory Corfield: Shipping Forecast
Miles Davis: Blue in Green
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Der Hölle Rache
Comedian
Frank Skinner
Elvis Presley: Ready Teddy
Benjamin Luxon: The Volunteer Organist
1970 World Cup Squad: Back Home
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
Kraftwerk: Neon Lights
George Formby: Why Don't Women Like Me?
The Fall: Rowche Rumble
Sex Pistols: Pretty Vacant
Musician
Noel Gallagher
David Bowie: Let'’s Dance
Pink Floyd: Nobody Home
The Smiths: Hand in Glove
A Guy Called Gerald: Voodoo Ray
U2: With or Without You
The Ronettes: Be My Baby
The Beatles: Ticket to Ride
Elvis Presley: I Just Can't Help Believing
Cricketer
Freddie Flintoff
Judy Garland: Over the Rainbow
Elton John: Rocket Man
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
Jack Johnson: Better Together
Frank Sinatra: Fly Me to The Moon
Oasis: Roll With It
The Eagles: New Kid in Town
Lenny Kravitz: Strut
Baker
Paul Hollywood
Charlie Rich: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
George Harrison: My Sweet Lord
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
Enigma: Return to Innocence
George Michael: Jesus to a Child
Coldplay: Fix You
Wretch 32: 6 Words
The Tokens: In the Jungle
Religious Leader
Justin Welby
Ludwig van Beethoven: The beginning of Symphony No.6
John Tavener: God is With Us
Kachipo of South Sudan: Yesu Odechi
Matt Redman & Beth Redman: Blessed be your Name
Gerry & The Pacemakers: You'll Never Walk Alone
Michael Berkeley: Listen, Listen, Oh My Child
The Bach Choir & London Symphony Orchestra: Requiem Aeternam from Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Joe Fagin: That's Living All Right
TV Presenters
Ant and Dec
Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman
Inspiral Carpets: This Is How it Feels To Be Lonely
The Stranglers: Golden Brown
Madness: Baggy Trousers
Эдуард Хиль: I am glad I'm finally going home (Trololo)
Coldplay: In My Place
Morecambe & Wise: Bring Me Sunshine
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