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OPINION - Lauren Laverne has ruined Desert Island Discs: bring back Kirsty Young

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It seems like the same programme. The dreamy opening theme with its soaring strings, the cosy tête-à-tête between host and guest, the interspersed tracks ranging from classical to pop to world music. But there is something wrong with , whose guest today is Delia Smith. Like I have kept on dutifully listening through its latest iteration, hosted by DJ , but with an irrepressible sense of disappointment. I snapped recently when, tuning in at the usual time, I learnt that the was a businessman, barely known outside the pages of

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