Cilla Black — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Cilla Black — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Cilla Black

7 episodes

Chosen over the decades

7

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alison Moyet
Cilla Black
Desert Island Discs at 75
Eleanor Bron
Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon
Tom Conti
U A Fanthorpe

Desert Island Discs at 75
Cilla Black on being handed a mic to sing at a club at sixteen
Castaway · 28 January 2017Kirsty Young
Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon on being in floods of tears after the independence referendum
Castaway · 15 November 2015Kirsty 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
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Alison Moyet on taking a hammer to her gold discs

Castaway · 18 May 2014Kirsty Young

11°56′S 033°37′W

U A Fanthorpe

U A Fanthorpe on re-baptising herself from Ursula

Castaway · 9 May 2004Sue Lawley

11°26′S 012°17′W

Tom Conti

How playing the guitar saved Tom Conti from crushing loneliness

Castaway · 22 November 1980Roy Plomley

05°36′S 062°00′W

Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron on realising there was nothing on the other side of the wall

Castaway · 24 June 1968Roy Plomley

00°32′S 020°32′W

Cilla Black

Cilla Black on believing she would be the Shirley Temple of the North

Castaway · 24 August 1964Roy Plomley