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Nigel Farage claimed a so-called ban on him being on Desert Island Discs is down to BBC bias, and 38 Question Time appearances entered the chat

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 1st, 2026

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‘Operation Deflect from the Farage Crypto Millions’ took a weird turn at the weekend, when the Daily Mail made an unsubstantiated claim from a new Nigel Farage biography into front page news.

The author, Lord Ashcroft, a billionaire Brexit backer gave the claim of a Desert Island Discs ban on Farage a bit of a boost.

The words ‘apparent exclusion’ are doing a lot of heavy lifting, as is the unnamed ‘insider source’ in Ashcroft’s book.

The BBC’s response to a Reform question about whether their leader could be a guest on the BBC Radio 4 show was –

“As we are now well into production on our latest series, we’re not currently looking for new castaways.

When making decisions about the very few active politicians we have on the programme, we make the bookings over quite a long time period ensuring a range of voices.”

But according to Lord Ashcroft’s anonymous source, he’s banned.

Marcia Brady from the Brady Bunch says 'Sure, Jan' in a sceptical way.

Farage, who once declared “I don’t listen to music, I don’t watch television, I don’t read.”, told the Mail –

“I have come to expect nothing less from the BBC – their blatant bias has been obvious for years.

‘The BBC will have a rude awakening under a Reform government.”

He followed it up with this.

To say the response was sceptical would be quite the understatement.

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