Audrey Hepburn — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Audrey Hepburn — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Audrey Hepburn

6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

6

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

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Armistead Maupin
Christopher Frayling
Dame Helena Morrissey
Joss Ackland
Nigel Nicolson
Tim Severin

Dame Helena Morrissey
Helena Morrissey on her childhood obsession with earning Brownie badges
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Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin on learning of the gay plague from a sobbing friend
Castaway · 25 November 2007Kirsty 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

Christopher Frayling

Christopher Frayling on choosing Singing in the Rain over Wagner's Ring

Castaway · 2 November 2003Sue Lawley

03°06′S 094°02′W

Joss Ackland

Joss Ackland on never being cast in a school play

Castaway · 12 August 2001Sue Lawley

19°57′S 063°33′W

Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf asking about his school lies

Castaway · 12 March 1995Sue Lawley

02°54′S 123°56′W

Tim Severin

Tim Severin on the bump in the night when his ship hit something

Castaway · 29 January 1983Roy Plomley