Steve McQueen

From Prince to Miles Davis.

Turner prize-winning artist and director, Steve McQueen shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.

Steve's 2013 film '12 Years a Slave' won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards. He is the first black British director to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Along with reaching the top of two professions he has also managed to please the diverging demands of his parents - his father wanted him to get a trade, his mother urged him to do what he wanted.

He says, "I want to make films that are essential. We're all going to die and we haven't got a lot of time on this planet. Life goes very quickly, so we might as well make films people will go to see because they need it or want it."

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.