Dennis Brain

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

Dennis Brain — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Elizabeth Jennings
George Chisholm
Jane Somerville
Jimmy Edwards
Prue Leith
Quentin Crewe

Jane Somerville
Jane Somerville on burning her husband’s shirt to avoid ironing
Castaway · 7 July 2013Kirsty Young
Elizabeth Jennings
How a breakdown liberated Elizabeth Jennings to write dozens of poems
Castaway · 3 January 1993Sue Lawley

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

Prue Leith

Prue Leith on catering from a bedsitter with lobsters on the dressing table

Castaway · 6 May 1990Sue Lawley

Quentin Crewe

12°28′S 028°54′W

Quentin Crewe

Quentin Crewe on crossing the Sahara without missing music

Castaway · 21 January 1984Roy Plomley

George Chisholm

02°00′S 165°37′W

George Chisholm

George Chisholm on playing piano for silent films in Glasgow aged 14

Castaway · 13 March 1982Roy Plomley

Jimmy Edwards

13°50′S 081°26′W

Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards on the bandsmen who sat in the cricket pavilion during OTC parades

Castaway · 1 August 1951Roy Plomley

Jane Somerville

Elizabeth Jennings

Quentin Crewe

George Chisholm

Jimmy Edwards