DAVID Tennant is to be a guest on Britain’s most famous radio show.

The Paisley actor will star on Desert Island Discs on Sunday, December 27, in what is another accolade for the actor whose star is constantly rising.

An appearance on the long-running BBC Radio Four programme, which famously asks guests to choose eight favourite music recordings, is reserved for those in the public eye who have reached the peak of their professions.

Presented by David’s fellow Scot Kirsty Young, it famously takes the form of an interview interspersed with excerpts from the eight chosen discs.

On the surface a gentle interview, the show has often seen guests talking about intimate aspects of their lives. Some have even been reduced to tears when recalling sadness or upset.

Writing about 38-year-old David’s appearance on the show, the Radio Times says: “When David Tennant was a boy, he tells how he kept a little book in which he noted what was in the pop charts each week.

“Once he was given a big box of chocolates and he entered all of the contents and marked off what he’d eaten and when.

“He was, he confesses, a geek.

“But it was as youthful geek that he announced to his parents that he wanted to be Doctor Who.

“The rest is time-and-relative-dimensions-in-space history.”

As revealed in the Paisley Daily Express, David was a Doctor Who fan from an early age.

He often wrote about the BBC sci-fi show in school essays, and even asked his grandmother to knit him a long scarf like the one worn by Tom Baker when he starred as the Doctor.

David, of course, went on to stardom when he took the role on himself to great acclaim.

He is now in Hollywood filming a new comedy drama dubbed Rex is Not Your Lawyer.

At the end of each edition of Desert Island Discs, guests are asked to name the one disc from their chosen eight that they would take to the desert island.

They are also told they will be given the Bible and all of Shakespeare’s works to take with them.

But they must also name another book they would want to have with them on the island.

And guests are asked to choose a luxury that would give them some pleasures while cast away.

To find out what David chooses, tune into Desert Island Discs at 11.15am on December 27.

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