Amy Winehouse — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Amy Winehouse — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Amy Winehouse

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Asif Kapadia
George Michael
Goldie Hawn
Harriet Wistrich
Kay Mellor
Mariana Mazzucato
Marian Keyes
Richard Young
Russell Brand
Tamara Rojo
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg on her private performance for Steven Spielberg
Castaway · 3 May 2026Lauren Laverne
Richard Young
Richard Young on building a guitar from a plank of wood
Castaway · 15 February 2026Lauren Laverne
Harriet Wistrich

desert is.land

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

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Harriet Wistrich on becoming DJ Hazer during lockdown

Castaway · 19 January 2025Lauren Laverne

07°58′S 007°27′W

Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia on swearing off exams after his mother's electric shock treatment

Castaway · 1 December 2019Lauren Laverne

Mariana Mazzucato

23°35′S 069°59′W

Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato on being called the world's scariest economist

Castaway · 16 December 2018Lauren Laverne

10°16′S 072°49′W

Kay Mellor

Kay Mellor on wearing heavy clothes to a slimming group

Castaway · 29 October 2017Kirsty Young

06°21′S 027°05′W

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes on the barbecue where her crippling depression started

Castaway · 12 March 2017Kirsty Young

18°47′S 134°07′W

Tamara Rojo

Tamara Rojo on first seeing a ballet class as a five-year-old

Castaway · 8 June 2014Kirsty Young

18°40′S 145°36′W

Russell Brand

Russell Brand on bringing crack addicts into the radio studio with him

Castaway · 21 July 2013Kirsty Young

01°51′S 025°18′W

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn on watching baboons jump on Peter Sellers' Rolls-Royce

Castaway · 23 September 2012Kirsty Young

Whoopi Goldberg

03°02′S 033°46′W

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg on writing to Alice Walker to play the dirt in The Color Purple

Castaway · 10 May 2009Kirsty Young

13°30′S 155°03′W

George Michael

How friends persuaded George Michael not to come out to his parents at 19

Castaway · 30 September 2007Kirsty Young