Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010

Emma Thompson

03.28.2010 - By BBC Radio 4Play

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Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson. Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of her notable screen credits in a dazzling career that has seen her pick up Oscars for both acting and writing. She appears to have pulled off that rare trick of being both a star and one of us - she famously keeps her brace of Oscars in the downstairs loo, still lives across the road from her mum and holidays in a cottage in Scotland where, she says, she and her husband spend a third of the year 'digging in like a pair of old potatoes.' Record: Corarsik

Book: Homer's Odyssey

Luxury: A saucepan - heavy bottomed with a removable handle.

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