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In 1946 BBC bosses dropped the programme but it was revived in 1951 and has been going strong ever since.

Guests are asked which luxury item and book they would take – and in 1974 actor Oliver Reed left Plomley speechless after requesting a blow-up doll.

Michael Parkinson took over as presenter after Plomley’s death in 1985, followed by Sue Lawley and Kirsty Young.

Some episodes have made headlines. Like when singer Morrissey admitted he had contemplated suicide and Yoko Ono revealed she and John Lennon considered aborting their son Sean.

Here’s our pick of 12 of the most memorable interviews. SUE Lawleyey raised eyebrows by asking the soon-to-bee Chancellor Gordon Brown:rown: “People want to know whetherether you’re gay or whetherether there’s someme flaw in your personalityonality that you haven’tn’t made a relationship?”hip?” Brown said: “I’m not married becauseecause it just has notot happenedd yet.” He wed Sarah Macaulay in 2000. YOKO’S interview withh Kirsty Young caused a stir when she revealed d that she and her Beatle husband John Lennon had discussed aborting their son Sean. She said she would have done it if Lennon asked her to. “I didn’t want to burden him with something he didn’t want,” she said. Two of her chosen Desert Island discs were Lennon’s Beautiful Boy (Dream Boy) and a track by Sean called Magic.