On Sunday October, 6 Lin-Manuel Miranda was the guest of the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs, where he got to pick eight songs one book and a luxury item he would bring on a desert island and explain why he likes them. Listen HERE.

The songs he picked are these:

• Cabaret from Cabaret
• The Crane Wife by The Decemberists
• El padre Antonio y su monaguillo Andres by Ruben Blades
• Passing Me By by The Pharcyde
• What You Know by Ali Dineen
• On The Radio by Regina Spektor
• Dejate Querer by Gilberto Santa Rosa
• Rosa Parks by Outkast

The book he picked is Moby Dick by Herman Melville and the luxury item is coffee.