Danny Kaye — 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

Danny Kaye — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Danny Kaye

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anatole de Grunwald
Bruce Fogle
Dame Prue Leith
Daniel Kahneman
Helen Oxenbury
Matt Lucas
Rory Bremner
Sir Charles MacLean
Susan George
Tony Iveson
Topol

Dame Prue Leith
Prue Leith on the pregnancy that exposed her long affair
Castaway · 19 December 2021Lauren Laverne
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Oxenbury on being bedridden with asthma and drawing to pass the time
Castaway · 29 November 2020Lauren Laverne
Daniel Kahneman

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Most requested
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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

Daniel Kahneman on being hugged by an SS soldier as a boy

Castaway · 11 August 2013Kirsty Young

15°16′S 139°22′W

Tony Iveson

Tony Iveson on shaking the hand of the German fighter pilot who could have killed him

Castaway · 2 January 2011Kirsty Young

04°49′S 096°37′W

Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas on waking up to find his hair on the pillow aged six

Castaway · 26 November 2006Kirsty Young

15°55′S 044°33′W

Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner on his father losing his job while in hospital with cancer

Castaway · 20 April 2003Sue Lawley

07°57′S 116°26′W

Bruce Fogle

Bruce Fogle on a punk client crying over her rat's mammary tumor

Castaway · 19 August 2001Sue Lawley

17°10′S 071°12′W

Susan George

Susan George on making up her mind to become an actress at age 11

Castaway · 16 August 1987Michael Parkinson

18°48′S 179°35′W

Topol

How Topol won the lead in Fiddler on the Roof with a 50-word English vocabulary

Castaway · 15 October 1983Roy Plomley

Anatole de Grunwald

19°31′S 163°05′W

Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald on reading for pleasure, not for film inspiration

Castaway · 29 March 1965Roy Plomley

Sir Charles MacLean

01°32′S 069°01′W

Sir Charles MacLean

Charles MacLean on the autograph that was the first six bars of Fingal's Cave

Castaway · 12 August 1963Roy Plomley