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Desert Island Discs

Classic Desert Island Discs - Thom Yorke

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Music, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Music Commentary

4.314.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Laverne talks to the musician Thom Yorke in a programme first broadcast in 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:07.3

On BBC Sounds, there are podcasts to help you look after your body and your mind.

0:12.7

From increasing your immunity to feeling more confident.

0:16.6

Or tips on how to focus.

0:18.5

Sorry, what will you say?

0:19.7

If it matters to you, it matters to us.

0:22.6

Feel good inside of them.

0:24.3

With What's Up Docs.

0:25.8

And Complex with Kimberly Wilson.

0:27.9

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.5

Lauren Levern here.

0:31.6

We're taking our Easter break.

0:33.0

So until we're back on air,

0:34.2

we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.

0:36.9

As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

0:40.4

This week's guest is the musician Tom York.

0:43.0

I cast him away in 2019.

0:48.9

Music You know you're in trouble when people stop listening to sad music because they're turning themselves off.

1:10.6

So speaks this week's castaway

1:12.4

Tom York and if anyone would know it's him. Along with his bandmates in Radiohead, he has expanded

1:18.2

ideas about what pop music can be and what it can do. As a child, he learned to play the guitar and then

1:23.9

built his own. He wrote his first song at 11 about an atomic bomb and has been performing

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