Rosie's Desert Island Discs

1. Gillian Welch - I dream a highway. Gillian always comes on my travels and this is the great value for money at 14 minutes of dreamy track

2. Nick Drake - Northern sky. Like Gillian, Nick is an old travelling friend and this is particularly beautiful

3. Mozart - Concerto for clarinet & orchestra in A major (adagio) - surely nothing in this world sounds more beautiful, I could listen to this forever and never get bored

4. The Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want - so many reasons, youth, memories, stuck on an Island

5. Bob Dylan - I shall be released - inspired and inspiring. Something to keep my spirits and optimism going through the monsoons

6. Ben Folds Five - The Luckiest - so sad and beautiful, a reminder of those I love

7. Joni Mitchell - Both sides now - one of the few songs I know all the words too and don't sound too awful singing it, a happy childhood favourite

8. Prince Buster - Nothing takes the place of you. This was the toughest choice for me, the dance/happy number, I love this and it makes me smile

I would have to save Bob - I wouldn't last long without the constant reinforcement of the belief I was going to be freed from Island solitude

My book choice: War and Peace - Tolstoy. Always meant to read it and the 1500 pages would keep me going for a while, could even read it a few times and not get bored

Luxury item: A coffee plantation with roasting machine and percolator

Ben's Desert Island Discs

Kraftwerk - Tour de France

Morrissey - Suedehead
Antonio Pinto & Ed Côrtez - Metamorfose Ambulante
Scott Walker - Boy Child
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Sundown, Sundown
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain

I would save Morrissey because it's the best one to sing along to.

Book - A Man in Full

Luxury - A hammock

Xanthe's Desert Island Discs

music
baby, now that I've found you - alison krass.
the song for all my boys.

scientist  - coldplay.
because nobody said it was easy.

dreams - gabrielle.
because my dream came true when I met luke.

billie jean - michael jackson.
will always get me on the dance floor.

sugarman - don't know the artist.
just love it.

my way - frank sinatra.
my theme tune and karaoke favourite.

california dreaming - jose feliciano.
warms my heart.

my love is your love - whitney.
great singalong.

would save
baby, now that I've found you - alison krass.

book
the heart of yoga - t.k.v desikachar.
always inspiring.

luxury item
a radio.

Bee's Desert Island Discs

1. bob dylan 'you're a big girl now' (blood on the tracks) for that all -grown-up on your own feeling: "you are on dry land"

2. neil young 'silver and gold' (silver and gold) for missing adam and izzy: "our kind of love never seems to grow old"

3. the ramones 'i wanna be sedated' (road to ruin) for rockin' out: "nothin' to do, nowhere to go"

4. tom waits 'gun street girl' (rain dogs) for being tough and scaring away the others: "blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette"

5. joni mitchell 'river' (blue) for feeling blue: "it don't snow here, it stays pretty green"

6. miles davis 'shhh/peaceful' (in a silent way) for being lost...

7. nick cave and the bad seeds 'breathless' (abattoir blues/the lyre of orpheus) for being found...

8. the faces 'ooh la la' (ooh la la) for everything: "i wish that i knew what i know now, when i was younger"
i would save nick cave, and thus be optomistic in a pessimistic way ;-)
book: harper lee 'to kill a mockingbird'
luxury item: a moleskine notebook and pilot pen (can that count as 1 item please?)

Sally's Desert Island Discs

Songs

What a fool believes - The Doobie Brothers.
I love this song and my dad loved this song. It always seemed to be on the car when we were little.

Let there be love - Oasis
Reminds me of John, my little Liam wannabe

Girlfriend - Nelly and Justin Timberlake
Boy band and gangsta rap together - genius

The Flower Duet from Lakme - Delibes AKA the BA advert
Possibly on every now that what I call classical compilation album ever made and used in countless TV/Films/adverts, but beautiful and the piece of music we walked into the registry office with on our wedding day.

Superstitious - Stevie Wonder
The song playing when I kissed John for the first time

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
I like to try and dance like old Kate in this video and the most tragic love story ever.

The Brazilian - Genesis
Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and I play air drums to this (in private).

Nobody's supposed to be here - Deborah Cox
If I get to the final of X-factor, this will be the song I belt out and no doubt will allow me to win.

I'd save
The Flower Duet

Book
Ray Mears - Essential Bushcraft

Luxury Item
The best Swiss Army knife you can buy.

p.s. If I could take a person it's be Daniel Craig as no doubt I'd get rescued at some point and it doesn't count as cheating when you're stranded on a Desert Island.

Fran's Desert Island Discs

Wanna be startin' somethin' - Michael Jackson. This is the happiest, danciest song in the world. I never ever get sick of it. It's the best.

Carey - Joni Mitchell. I wouldn't go anywhere without Joni. This is one of my favourites. It was tough though.

If I were a bell - from the original 1982 cast recording of Guys and Dolls. I went to see it when I was 9. I know all the words. This is my favourite. It's so happy.

I am the black gold of the sun - NuYorican Soul. Reminds me of travelling round the world. It's a great car track. And it's very long, so good for a desert island.

Summertime - The Sundays. If Ben and I had a song, this would be it.

I just wasn't made for these times - The Beach Boys. I wouldn't go anywhere without Pet Sounds either. And it may be the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

Your time is gonna come - Led Zeppelin. I love it when the beat comes in at the beginning, it makes me swoon.

Walk on By - Dionne Warwick. I think this is my favourite Burt Bacharach song. But it was very hard to choose.

I would save Wanna be startin' somethin' just coz it's so darn happy.

My book would be A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe because it's an epic and you can get lost in it and it's very, very long.

My luxury item would be a mac laptop with broadband and I don't care what Ben says about reception. Then I could write, design, email, watch DVDs...I wouldn't need to go home.

Zoe's Desert Island Discs

8 pieces of music....
Aint no mountain high enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Tarell

Lets get it on - Marvin Gaye

just the way you look tonight - Frank Sinatra

You've got a friend - carol king

Somewhere over the rainbow - Eva Cassidy

Sunrise - Nitin Sawhney

Working 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

Keep your head up - Tupac

Holiday - Madonna

I'd save - Marvin & Tammi

One book.....
A million little pieces - James Frey

One luxury item....
wanted to say Jesse Metcalfe, but as no humans are allowed my luxury item would be a mobile phone - with endless battery and reception. I'd be lost without my loved ones, but I'd also go CRAZY not be able to talk/gossip with anyone!

Polly's Desert Island Discs

Tiny Dancer - Elton John because it's the one i love to sing along to with a fake microphone in my hand and real emotion in my voice
Philosophy - Ben Folds Five because i play it to mills and she loves it too. we sing to it in front of the mirror
Meglio stasera - Ennio Morricone because fran and i love the version in the pink panther
Copacabana - Barry Manilow because i love a bit of cheese and i once got an american friend to write down all the words for me so i could memorise it and i still know all the words to this day
Sexx Laws - beck, just because
Love Cats - The Cure, reminds me of some fun times in the '80s
Lady - Mojo because melinda and i find it hysterical and the whole lady/ladle thing. i'll always remember getting out of melinda's car in front of my house and it was playing on the radio and she turned it up really loud.
All night long - Lionel Richie because it was the last song i played at my wedding and the crowd went wild!!

Would save meglio stasera.

Book: Room with a View - EM Forster

Luxury item: Battery operated DVD with box set of Sex and the City. If I could take a person it would be Melinda. We'd have so much fun dancing to 'Lady'.