Andrés Segovia — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Andrés Segovia — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Andrés Segovia

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

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Dame Monica Mason
Fleur Cowles
Geoffrey Household
James Cameron
Julian Bream
Ken Sykora
Léon Goossens
Professor Géza Vermes

Dame Monica Mason
Monica Mason on her father’s last wave from a hospital balcony
Castaway · 8 January 2012Kirsty Young
Professor Géza Vermes
Géza Vermes on becoming a priest because he couldn't go to university
Castaway · 4 June 2000Sue Lawley

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
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Fleur Cowles on faking her way into a newspaper column

Castaway · 18 June 1983Roy Plomley

Geoffrey Household

19°26′S 114°40′W

Geoffrey Household

How shooting partridges got Geoffrey Household a job at the Ottoman Bank

Castaway · 15 March 1980Roy Plomley

11°46′S 006°56′W

James Cameron

How a six-pound weekly budget sent James Cameron to France

Castaway · 5 May 1979Roy Plomley

02°25′S 140°58′W

Ken Sykora

Ken Sykora on telling his students his guitarist persona was his twin brother

Castaway · 22 January 1962Roy Plomley

17°35′S 114°00′W

Julian Bream

Julian Bream on his first professional engagement at a Russian prince's party

Castaway · 5 June 1961Roy Plomley

18°47′S 006°33′W

Léon Goossens

Léon Goossens on getting a bullet on the fifth of November 1918

Castaway · 15 February 1960Roy Plomley