Andy Williams — Artist · desert is.land

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

Andy Williams — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Andy Williams

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

2010s

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3

Decades seen

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75 Years of Desert Island Discs
Captain Eric Brown (Winkle)
Carolyn McCall
Desert Island Discs at 75
Dr Nicola Fox
Gayatri Devi
Julie Burchill
Lucinda Russell
Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell
Philip Treacy
Robert Maxwell
Sarah Raven

Sarah Raven
Sarah Raven on her father trusting her word to identify flowers
Castaway · 28 July 2024Lauren Laverne
Dr Nicola Fox
Nicola Fox on her son asking if angels like pizzas
Castaway · 26 November 2023Lauren Laverne
Lucinda Russell

desert is.land

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

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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

How scattering a young jockey's ashes on the gallops helped Lucinda Russell's team heal

Castaway · 24 September 2023Lauren Laverne

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Philip Treacy

Philip Treacy on asking to sew with the girls at school

Castaway · 8 July 2018Kirsty Young

75 Years of Desert Island Discs

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75 Years of Desert Island Discs

Eric Brown on looping the Forth Bridge in a Spitfire

Castaway · 31 December 2017Kirsty Young

Desert Island Discs at 75

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Desert Island Discs at 75

Cilla Black on being handed a mic to sing at a club at sixteen

Castaway · 28 January 2017Kirsty Young

Captain Eric Brown (Winkle)

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Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown

Eric Brown on interrogating Hermann Goering

Castaway · 14 November 2014Kirsty Young

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Carolyn McCall

Carolyn McCall on never cooking until university

Castaway · 6 October 2013Kirsty Young

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Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill on reading Oscar Wilde instead of getting a Saturday job

Castaway · 10 February 2013Kirsty Young

Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell

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Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell

Miss Bluebell on hiding her husband in an attic for two and a half years in Nazi-occupied Paris

Castaway · 7 February 1988Michael Parkinson

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Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell on being sentenced to death as a spy

Castaway · 5 July 1987Michael Parkinson

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Gayatri Devi

Gayatri Devi on writing to Nehru to stop the demolition of Jaipur's walls

Castaway · 4 August 1984Roy Plomley