This project comes courtesy of Sam and Ethan (who typed up these instructions) – thank you SO much boys.  It is something that you could do with people in your house, as well as family and friends who you are not able to visit at the moment.

Note – a disc a is song played on a piece of plastic 🙂

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What you need:

• An interviewer;
• Someone who is interviewed.

Optional – you can record your interview on a smart phone and look back on it. Nice.

How it works:

It’s simple – the person being interviewed is invited to choose eight songs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they’re castaway on a mythical desert island. They’re given the complete works of Shakespeare and a religious book (Koran or bible etc.). Desert Island discs is played on BBC radio 4 most weeks and has been going for about 100 years!!

Questions the interviewer could ask, but you can ask any! This challenge tests your interview and answering skills:

1. What are your eight favourite songs?
2. Which one and only song’s your absolute favourite, if you had to choose one?
3. What one and only book would you take to your desert Island?
4. What luxury item would you take to your desert island? You can’t use it to escape or communicate with.
5. Tell me about your family and friends?
6. Who is the biggest influence in your life? Why?
7. What was a good time in your life and why?
8. What was a tough time and why?
9. What are you most proud of?
10. If you could go back in time where would you go and why?
11. What would you do with £1,000,000.00?
12. Any other questions you can think of!

Some examples of previous interviews:
Daniel Radcliffe (AKA Harry Potter) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gc48   Jamie Oliver (famous chef) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009489f
Tom Hanks (famous actor) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n