Piers Morgan

Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. He spent more than a decade as a Fleet Street editor and pioneered a style of journalism that devoured the day-to-day lives of celebrities. Now, he has become something of a celebrity himself, fronting a TV interview programme and sitting as a judge on both America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent. He is, according to one friend, 'the ultimate proof that self-confidence and self-belief can become a self-fulfilling prophecy'.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Choices

1.

The Rolling Stones

Start Me Up

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2.

Charles Aznavour

For Me... Formidable

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3.

Castaway's favourite

Dean Martin

Mambo Italiano

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4.

Chris Potter

Yesterday

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5.

The Beatles

Let It Be

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6.

Original Broadway Cast

Sunset Boulevard

7.

Stevie Wonder

You and I

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8.

Monty Python

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

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Book

An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan

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Luxury item

My cricket bat

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