Boney M. — 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

Boney M. — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Boney M.

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Minter
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Delia Smith
Kelly Holmes
Nigella Lawson

Kelly Holmes
Kelly Holmes on looking in the mirror at 14 and deciding to be Olympic champion
Castaway · 1 January 2006Sue Lawley
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson on her mother thinking she was autistic because she never spoke
Castaway · 5 October 2003Sue 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
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

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright on the carrots her father fed her, still with slugs on them

Castaway · 21 November 1999Sue Lawley

01°37′S 092°38′W

Delia Smith

Delia Smith on washing up in a restaurant to learn to cook

Castaway · 5 June 1982Roy Plomley

22°47′S 021°25′W

Alan Minter

Alan Minter on holding the school record for canings

Castaway · 29 November 1980Roy Plomley