Dean Martin — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Dean Martin — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Dean Martin

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Danny Baker
Engelbert Humperdinck
Heidi Thomas
Ian Dury
Jimmy Mulville
Mark Knopfler
Michael Winner
Philip Pullman
Piers Morgan
Sir Gulam Noon
Terence Stamp
Terry O'Neill

Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler on his sister turning his tennis racket guitar the right way
Castaway · 4 August 2024Lauren Laverne
Heidi Thomas
Heidi Thomas on discovering her father's letters after his suicide
Castaway · 15 December 2019Lauren Laverne

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

Danny Baker on leaving school at 14 to work in a record shop

Castaway · 31 July 2011Kirsty Young

16°23′S 050°33′W

Jimmy Mulville

Jimmy Mulville on spending a year contemplating the death of his acting dreams

Castaway · 1 August 2010Kirsty Young

23°24′S 069°18′W

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan on walking barefoot on Miami Beach with Rupert Murdoch

Castaway · 7 June 2009Kirsty Young

20°23′S 166°15′W

Terence Stamp

How a letter in an ashram brought Terence Stamp back to play General Zod

Castaway · 12 March 2006Sue Lawley

16°59′S 153°49′W

Michael Winner

Michael Winner on how his father put up with his mother: dying at 65

Castaway · 9 October 2005Sue Lawley

Engelbert Humperdinck

19°53′S 157°59′W

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck on starting the sideburns against all advice

Castaway · 19 December 2004Sue Lawley

21°35′S 163°12′W

Sir Gulam Noon

Gulam Noon on promising his mother he'd take care of everything after his father died

Castaway · 7 March 2004Sue Lawley

15°05′S 030°06′W

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman on his Oxford English degree being a useless waste of time

Castaway · 6 October 2002Sue Lawley

05°59′S 101°40′W

Terry O'Neill

Terry O'Neill on accidentally photographing a sleeping Rap Butler at Heathrow

Castaway · 28 January 2001Sue Lawley

07°54′S 003°36′W

Ian Dury

Ian Dury on being accused of faking his disability at the Nashville

Castaway · 15 December 1996Sue Lawley