The Adolescence star went on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs back in 2019 where he unveiled the eight songs he couldn’t live without.

Among them were Kasabian’s Fire, Marvin Gaye’s Save The Children, Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Oasis’ Talk Tonight.

But when asked which one track he would save from the waves, Stephen Graham didn’t hesitate.

The 51-year-old said: “I think you and I both know that there’s no choice, is there? It has to be Ain’t Nobody.”

The 1983 Rufus and Chaka Khan track is a special song that Graham shares with his wife.

Earlier in the programme he said: “This is our song. And no matter wherever we are, if we’re at a family gathering, we’re just like two little meerkats. We pop up, look for each other, and go running to each other.”

Dame Prue Leith has revealed that her favourite song of all time is Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, a hymn that was banned under South Africa’s apartheid regime due to its association with the African National Congress. Speaking on BBC Radio in 2021, Leith reflected on her upbringing in apartheid-era South Africa and the profound impact the song has had on her life.

She explained: “You will not be surprised to hear that I’ve chosen Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, which has now become the South African national anthem. It is sung by the Ladysmith Black Mambazo.” Originally written as a hymn in 1897, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika became a symbol of resistance during apartheid and was banned by the government because of its political significance. It was later incorporated into the post-apartheid South African national anthem.

Now a household name in the UK as a judge on The Great British Bake Off, Leith has had a long and varied career as a chef, restaurateur, writer and broadcaster.

Leith, who was born in Cape Town, spoke candidly about the privileges she experienced growing up as a white middle-class child, and how her understanding of racism evolved over time.

“We were quite well off, I went to a private school. The thing that made us the most privileged of all was that we were white middle class and so apartheid was part of life,” she said.

She also described the activism of her mother, who was a member of the anti-apartheid women’s group the Black Sash.

“I remember her standing at the town hall steps and having eggs thrown at her because she was protesting against the fact that you couldn’t have black actors in a play,” she said.

Leith recalled a pivotal moment from her youth that highlighted the deep social injustices of the time.

“I would walk down the street as a young 14-year-old staying with my girlfriend giggling away, and a venerable old black man would get off the pavement and walk in the gutter to let these giggling school girls pass because the whole culture was ‘blacks’ had to make way for ‘whites’.”

Other songs on her eight-song playlist featured an eclectic mix, from Aretha Franklin’s Skylark to Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, but it was the haunting harmonies of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika that stood out.

When asked to choose her ultimate favourite, she didn’t hesitate.

Queen legend Brian May has spoken of his “regret” at “slipping out of touch with producer Roy Thomas Baker who worked on Bohemian Rhapsody with Queen as he paid tribute after his death at the age of 78. The news was confirmed by his publicist in a statement but no cause of death was given. He died on April 12 but the news was only made public. “I regret slipping out of touch latterly with Roy. I suppose life moves at such a pace these days that we imagine there will be plenty of time to rekindle a friendship, and then suddenly one day it’s too late,” the 77-year-old guitar icon wrote on Instagram as part of a bigger tribute.

He posted a series of stereoscopic images taken when he and then wife Chrissy Mullens visited Roy and his wife in 1973 and captioned it: “Very sad to hear of the passing of Roy Thomas Baker. Roy played a huge part in the production of so much Queen music in the early days. Photographs of Roy seem to be quite rare, but I was able to find these 3-D pictures of a trip that my then wife Chrissy and I made to visit Roy and his wife Barbara in their cottage in Norfolk. It must have been 1973.

“We went strawberry picking, and, as you can see, Roy was interested in the stereoscopic process, posing in a pile of wood for stereoscopic effect!

“I took the tennis picture at Ridge Farm, on a day when we were visited by some Japanese journalists from *Music Life* magazine.

“Roy was a part of our production team from the very beginning up to and including the album ‘A night at the Opera’. We then parted company for ‘A Day at the Races’, but reunited for the ‘Jazz’ album.

“Roy’s production contribution along with Mike Stone’s engineering for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ will never be forgotten,” he wrote.

“I regret slipping out of touch latterly with Roy. I suppose life moves at such a pace these days that we imagine there will be plenty of time to rekindle a friendship, and then suddenly one day it’s too late.

“Thank you, Roy for all the great work you did for us, and all the fun we had. Rest in Peace. Bri,” he signed off.

Outside of Queen Roy enjoyed a long career working with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Free, Journey, The Cars, Yes and the Smashing Pumpkins.

However he was best known for his work helping to produce Queen’s nearly six-minute-long opus Bohemian Rhapsody. In a 2005 interview with The New York Times Roy had opened up about Bohemian Rhapsody saying the song was “ageless” because “it didn’t confine to any given genre of music.”

“I thought it was going to be a hit. We didn’t know it was going to be quite that big. I didn’t realise it was still going to be talked about 30 years later,” he said.