Daniel Radcliffe, actor
Daniel Radcliffe, actor, chooses the eight tracks, book and luxury he would want take if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.
Daniel Radcliffe reached a global audience in the title role of the hugely successful Harry Potter films. He has also appeared on Broadway and in the West End, as well as in over a dozen films since the final part of the Harry Potter series was released in 2011.
Born in 1989, the only child of Alan and Marcia Radcliffe, Daniel made his acting debut aged 10 in a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ adaptation of David Copperfield. The following year he was cast as Harry Potter, and he and his co-stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, would spend ten years filming the series. Daniel made a point of taking other roles before it had finished, and he appeared on stage in Peter Shafferβs play Equus in 2007, a role which involved prolonged full frontal nudity.
Since then he has appeared on screen, on stage and on television, playing characters from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg to a cop going undercover as a neo-Nazi, and his recent films include Guns Akimbo and Escape from Pretoria. In the theatre, he is appearing in Samuel Beckettβs Endgame in London.
He supports the Trevor Project which works to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth and which Daniel first became aware of during the Broadway run of Equus in 2008. Daniel has been in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Erin Darke who he met on a film set in 2012.
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Last on
12 things we learned from Daniel Radcliffe's musical choices
The actor makes his desert island selections and talks to Lauren about them.
Music Played
-
Morecambe & Wise
Bring Me Sunshine
- Classic Morecambe & Wise: Songs and Sketches.
- EMI Records Limited.
- 26.
-
Tom Lehrer
We Will All Go Together When We Go
- The Remains of Tom Lehrer.
- Rhino.
- 1.
-
Pixies
Where Is My Mind?
- Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim.
- Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
- 7.
-
Grandaddy
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
- The Sophtware Slump.
- Mercury Records Limited.
- 1.
-
The Hold Steady
Killer Parties
- Almost Killed Me.
- Full Time Hobby.
- 10.
-
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Into My Arms
- The Boatman's Call.
- Mute Records Limited.
- 1.
-
Joanna Newsom
Emily
- Drag City, Inc..
- Ys.
- 1.
-
YoβYo Ma
Attaboy
Composer: Stuart Duncan. Composer: Edgar Meyer. Composer: Chris Thile. Performer: YoβYo Ma. Performer: Chris Thile. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Stuart Duncan.- The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
- Sony Classical.
- 1.
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Mar 2020 11:15ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Fri 20 Mar 2020 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Featured in...
Sounds Iconic: Showbiz Royalty
Joanna Lumley, French & Saunders, Stephen Fry and more
Listen to over 2,000 programmes
Click above to browse castaways, from 1942 to today.
Articles
Read the surprising things we've learned about some stand-out castaways.
Podcast
-
Desert Island Discs
Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.