Desert Island Discs comes to iPlayer
Ed's note: Yesterday the Controller of 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 Mark Damazer wrote about the long-awaited arrival to much excitement of Desert Island Discs on the iPlayer.
NB: The picture below is not of Mark but of the programme's inventor and long-time presenter Roy Plomley, taken in 1942, the year the programme was first broadcast. (PM)
It is a grand moment to get Desert Island Discs (DIDs) on the iPlayer. We have always had good relations with the family of the programme's founding father - Roy Plomley - but the programme was conceived in a pre-digital age and so we needed to work out with the family how to make the programme available online as well as for its two transmissions.
We have now sorted it all out and we have plans to make the website an all-singing, all-dancing affair - encouraging people to compare their choices with the choices of castaways, looking at the most selected tracks etc. etc. And we will end up podcasting DIDs too.
Read the rest of Mark Damazer's post about Desert Island Discs on the iPlayer and leave your comments on the Radio 4 blog where it first appeared.
