Annie Lennox — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Annie Lennox — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Annie Lennox

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

4

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Hugh Bonneville
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Lisa Jardine
Patricia Cornwell
Petula Clark
Professor Dame Jane Francis
Simon Murray
Toto Wolff

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Toto Wolff on leaving school with his sister because tuition fees were unpaid
Castaway · 30 July 2023Lauren Laverne
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Jane Francis on accidentally making antifreeze instead of ice cream in Antarctica
Castaway · 24 September 2017Kirsty Young

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
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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

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville on discovering his mother worked for MI6

Castaway · 28 February 2016Kirsty Young

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Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay on finding a poem in an Olympic matchmaking factory

Castaway · 11 October 2015Kirsty Young

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Lisa Jardine

How asking for a glass of water helped Lisa Jardine be heard in a room

Castaway · 7 June 2015Kirsty Young

04°24′S 132°29′W

Simon Murray

Simon Murray on being forced to run in circles with rocks in the Foreign Legion

Castaway · 4 January 2009Kirsty Young

Patricia Cornwell

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell on grabbing her father's leg as he left on Christmas Day

Castaway · 29 December 2002Sue Lawley

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Petula Clark

Petula Clark on coming close to a nervous breakdown as a teenager

Castaway · 24 December 1995Sue Lawley

04°03′S 138°45′W

Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet

Castaway · 24 January 1993Sue Lawley