Emma Thompson

Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson.

Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of her notable screen credits in a dazzling career that has seen her pick up Oscars for both acting and writing.

She appears to have pulled off that rare trick of being both a star and one of us - she famously keeps her brace of Oscars in the downstairs loo, still lives across the road from her mum and holidays in a cottage in Scotland where, she says, she and her husband spend a third of the year 'digging in like a pair of old potatoes.'

DISC ONE: Corarsik - Orchestra: The Hungarian Studio Orchestra, conductor: Patrick Doyle
DISC TWO: Florence, It's a Lovely Morning from the film version of The Magic Roundabout: Dougal and the Blue Cat - Eric Thompson
DISC THREE: Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols - Choir: The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, conductor: Sir David Willcocks
DISC FOUR: Inti‐Illimani’s Candidos - John Williams, Paco Pena
DISC FIVE: Hold On - Tom Waits
DISC SIX: Cantaloop - Us3 & Rahsaan
DISC SEVEN: Some of Your Planes - Richard Lumsden
DISC EIGHT: With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

BOOK CHOICE: Odyssey - Homer
LUXURY CHOICE: A saucepan - heavy bottomed with a removable handle
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Corarsik - Orchestra: The Hungarian Studio Orchestra, conductor: Patrick Doyle.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.