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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

50 episodes

Chosen over the decades

49

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

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Bob Hoskins
Carl Sagan
Catherine Gaskin
Dame Fanny Waterman
Dame Janet Baker
David Hope
David Suchet
Denise Robins
Dr Richard Dawkins
Eve Arnold
Fiona Reynolds
Gillian Lynne
Harry Rabinowitz
James Bowman
John Cole
John Harvey-Jones
John Lloyd
John Pilger
Jonathan Lynn
Joseph Cooper
Kenneth Williams
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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Find a castaway
Most requested
Browse the archive
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

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Kenneth Williams

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Phil Edmonds

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Robert Burchfield

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Lucy Irvine

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