Desert Island Claret – an addendum

Last week I mentioned Gene Pitney's choice of wine on Desert Island Discs. Here's a full list of Red Bordeaux enthusiasts who've graced the BBC Radio programme. I've done this so you don't have to.

Last week I mentioned that Gene Pitney is the only person to have ever asked for a non-European wine on Desert Island Discs. But he’s certainly not the only person who’s gone for wine as a luxury on the BBC’s (very) long running music-book-luxury-and-biographical-anecdote-based radio programme.

When the jazz composer Spike Hughes appeared in 1952 his lux…