Stephen Mangan to star in new desert island comedy alongside ‘castaway’ celebrities The star of TV drama The Split joins Sandi Toksvig, Richard Madeley and more in Radio 4 sitcom based on the fictional tropical isle.
For on 17 February the actor takes to the Radio 4 airwaves again in The Island, a six-part sitcom set on the fictional, deserted isle that has become famous in the 80 years since Desert Island Discs was first broadcast.
As the latest Desert Island Discs castaway this Sunday morning the actor Stephen Mangan is happy to confess that his first big theatrical role was as Beauty in an infant production of Beauty and the Beast.
It becomes clear over the series, available on BBC Sounds today, that the TV chef Nadiya Hussain has begun to hunt obsessively, that Richard Madeley has gone feral, and that Sandi Toksvig is hanging on to the conch.
But the really surprising discovery for listeners is that if Mangan had not now been marooned as a guest on the long-running BBC programme by presenter Lauren Laverne, he could never have made his next show.
