On Christmas Day 2013, Fry featured with adventurer Bear Grylls in an episode of Channel 4's "Bear's Wild Weekends". Over the course of two days, in the Italian Dolomites, Fry travelled on the skids of a helicopter, climbed down a raging 500-foot waterfall, slept in a First World War trench and abseiled down a towering cliff face. In June 2015, Fry was the guest on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs". His favourite piece was the String Quartet No. 14 by Beethoven. His book choice was "Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot and his luxury item was "canvasses, easels, brushes, an instruction manual".