Classic Desert Island Discs - Whoopi Goldberg

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Music, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Music Commentary

4.3 • 14.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young talks to the actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg in a programme first broadcast in 2009.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds. Lauren Leverne here. We we met. The gift. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.2	Lauren Levern here.
0:40.3	We're taking our Easter break,
0:41.7	so until we're back on air,
0:42.9	we're showcasing a few programs from our archive.
0:45.7	As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.
0:49.1	This week's guest is the actor and comedian,
0:51.4	Wubby Goldberg.
0:52.6	Kirstie Young cast her away in 2009.
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