'It's all gone a bit Lord Of The Flies'

Stephen Mangan is to star in a new Radio 4 comedy set on the fictional location where celebrities are cast away on Desert Island Discs.

The Island will launch following the actor’s real-life appearance on the long-running Radio 4 series next month.

Is premise is that Mangan washes up on the island to discover he’s not alone  and ‘in the kind of trouble where the Bible, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, and his luxury item will be no help whatsoever’.

Living among the palms and rocky outcrops and thousands of copies of the Bible lying in the sand is every former guest of the show, and ‘it’s all gone a bit Lord Of The Flies’. All TV chef Nadiya Hussain wants to do is hunt, Richard Madeley’s gone feral, and Sandi Toksvig has the Conch.

The six-part series has been written by Dead Ringers creator  Bill Dare, The Skewer’s Jon Holmes and writers Tom Oxenham and Simon Alcock

It will air on Radio 4 from February 17, just days after Mangan is interviewed by Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs on February 9.

Published: 15 Jan 2025