Castaway television shows and films tell the story of castaways: This is a list of fiction. There are also memoirs such as "Castaway". Castaways are part of other stories as well, where the event is not the central plot but is still an important aspect. Examples include: "Desert Island Discs" is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which the subject is invited to consider themselves as a castaway on a desert island, and then select their eight favourite records, one favourite book (in addition to "The Bible" and books by Shakespeare), and a luxury inanimate object to occupy their time.
BBC Regional Programme BBC Regional Programme The BBC Regional Programme was a UK radio broadcasting service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – when it replaced a number of earlier BBC local stations – until 1 September 1939, when it was subsumed into the BBC Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II. When the British Broadcasting Company first began transmissions on 14 November 1922 from the station 2LO in the Strand, Westminster, which it had inherited from the Marconi Company (one of the six commercial companies which created the BBC), the technology did not exist either