Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Kirsty Young's castaway is the food writer and cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Famous for making paté out of placenta and dining on such delicacies as squirrel and rook in his TV programmes, he has made a name for himself as a cook on the wild side. So perhaps it is not surprising that his first ambition was not to spend his life inside a kitchen but in the great outdoors because, he says, he 'wanted to be David Attenborough'.

A stint in the renowned River Cafe in London, however, set him on his way to establishing his own waterside haven for food lovers, his River Cottage in Dorset. From there, he has followed his passion for the environment by campaigning for ethically-produced food, including championing a creature not normally given time on our small screens - the humble supermarket chicken.

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

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The Specials

Gangsters

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The Who

Love Reign O’er Me

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 9 in D minor 'Choral'

Orchestra: The Chorus of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Conductor: Bernard Haitink

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David Bowie

Five Years

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Donna Summer

I Feel Love

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Into My Arms

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Clash

Police and Thieves

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Hattie Longfield

You Never Know

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Full set of Scuba gear

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