BBC Symphony Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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BBC Symphony Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

BBC Symphony Orchestra

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Dame Sally Davies
Deborah Meaden
Gary Barlow
George Lloyd
John Drummond
Judith Kerr
Peter Alliss
Professor Sharon Peacock
Sir Anthony Seldon
Sir Ernst Gombrich

Professor Sharon Peacock
Sharon Peacock on meeting her husband at Cinderella's disco
Castaway · 21 May 2023Lauren Laverne
Deborah Meaden
How Deborah Meaden flinched when her father was called her stepfather
Castaway · 17 October 2021Lauren Laverne

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
About

Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Dame Sally Davies

Sally Davies on sitting all night with a young woman drowning in her own lung fluid

Castaway · 28 July 2019Lauren Laverne

14°33′S 043°35′W

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow on the stillbirth of his daughter Poppy

Castaway · 9 December 2018Lauren Laverne

Sir Anthony Seldon

16°13′S 162°11′W

Sir Anthony Seldon

How a collapse of confidence in the US led Anthony Seldon to meditation and yoga

Castaway · 17 January 2016Kirsty Young

10°15′S 154°04′W

Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr on killing off Mog the Cat as she turned 80

Castaway · 29 February 2004Sue Lawley

21°39′S 069°46′W

George Lloyd

George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil

Castaway · 23 April 1995Sue Lawley

14°04′S 015°38′W

John Drummond

John Drummond on the ten years of misery under Hugh Weldon

Castaway · 26 June 1994Sue Lawley

Sir Ernst Gombrich

10°21′S 027°10′W

Sir Ernst Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich on dictating The Story of Art without a draft

Castaway · 5 April 1992Sue Lawley

05°16′S 023°33′W

Peter Alliss

Peter Alliss on nearly killing someone in the RF regiment

Castaway · 29 March 1987Michael Parkinson