Martin Sheen

Hollywood actor Martin Sheen shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

In a specially extended edition for BBC Radio 4 Extra, Martin shares his life story and explains his musical, book and luxury choices.

He has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely successful political drama The West Wing.

Martin's made more than 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his children - Emilio Estevez.

But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he says, by faith and conscience above politics.

DISC ONE: Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
DISC TWO: How Can I Keep From Singing? - Enya
DISC THREE: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, 2nd movement - Daniel Barenboim with the English Chamber Orchestra
DISC FOUR: Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Spring - Pinchas Zukerman
DISC FIVE: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor “Choral”: Ode to Joy - The Netherlands Radio Chorus with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
DISC SIX: How Great Thou Art - The London Emmanuel Choir
DISC SEVEN: Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
DISC EIGHT: Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major - The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan

BOOK CHOICE - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
LUXURY CHOICE - Golf clubs
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley.

Producer: Leanne Buckle

Extended edition first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in August 2011.