Charlie Parker — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Charlie Parker — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Charlie Parker

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Charlie Watts
Dizzy Gillespie
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Marty Feldman
Michael Heath
Neil Jordan
Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Robbie Coltrane
Stan Tracey
Tariq Ali

Michael Heath
Michael Heath on climbing through barbed wire to sit on a bomb-strewn beach as a wartime evacuee
Castaway · 7 August 2016Kirsty Young
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali on organising a cleaners' strike in the Himalayas as a teenager
Castaway · 16 March 2008Kirsty 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
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

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson on turning down a six-album deal with Island Records

Castaway · 8 December 2002Sue Lawley

09°37′S 066°08′W

Charlie Watts

Charlie Watts on drawing every hotel bed he sleeps in on tour

Castaway · 25 February 2001Sue Lawley

23°26′S 177°51′W

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan on hearing voices and seeing visions as a child

Castaway · 23 January 2000Sue Lawley

13°31′S 039°43′W

Stan Tracey

Stan Tracey on wanting to become a postman

Castaway · 25 April 1999Sue Lawley

Professor Eric Hobsbawm

08°37′S 054°25′W

Professor Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm on a cause that has plainly failed

Castaway · 5 March 1995Sue Lawley

Robbie Coltrane

03°38′S 163°30′W

Robbie Coltrane

How a Marlon Brown impersonation in a bar landed Robbie Coltrane his first paid acting job

Castaway · 9 February 1992Sue Lawley

Dizzy Gillespie

11°10′S 004°44′W

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie on receiving a trombone from his school at age 11

Castaway · 19 January 1980Roy Plomley

22°53′S 018°20′W

Marty Feldman

Marty Feldman on firing arrows into a fake Red Indian's stomach

Castaway · 23 September 1968Roy Plomley