Buena Vista Social Club

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

Buena Vista Social Club — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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6 episodes

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2000s

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Alison Moyet
Felicity Green
Lord Browne
Sir Christopher Meyer
Tina Brown
Vittorio Radice

Alison Moyet
Alison Moyet on taking a hammer to her gold discs
Castaway · 18 May 2014Kirsty Young
Felicity Green
How wearing skirts helped Felicity Green navigate Fleet Street's boardroom
Castaway · 17 April 2011Kirsty Young
Lord Browne

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

John Browne on a professor who thought his business ambition was funny

Castaway · 2 July 2006Sue Lawley

Sir Christopher Meyer

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Sir Christopher Meyer

Christopher Meyer on leaving behind the Ambassadorial Bentley

Castaway · 23 November 2003Sue Lawley

Vittorio Radice

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Vittorio Radice

Vittorio Radice on playing life for the day in his early twenties

Castaway · 8 June 2003Sue Lawley

Tina Brown

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Tina Brown

How Tina Brown sacked 79 people in her first year at The New Yorker

Castaway · 3 December 2000Sue Lawley

Alison Moyet

Felicity Green

Lord Browne

Sir Christopher Meyer

Vittorio Radice

Tina Brown