Kirsty Young board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs", replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006. According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1. She returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News. On 29 September 2007,
John Dunn (radio presenter) Dunn's regular closing theme music for his afternoon-early evening Radio 2 programme was 'Imogene' by Les Reed. In 1998, John Dunn was awarded a Gold Sony Radio Award for the best drivetime music programme. He was married with two daughters, and lived in Croydon, Surrey, where he died, aged 70, after a long-suffering battle with cancer. John Dunn (radio presenter) John Churchill Dunn (4 March 1934 – 27 November 2004), professionally known simply as "John Dunn", was a British disc jockey and radio presenter who worked for many years on BBC Radio. He was also known as "Long John" Dunn