Dinu Lipatti — 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

Dinu Lipatti — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Dinu Lipatti

15 episodes

Chosen over the decades

15

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

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Alvar Lidell
Angela Gheorghiu
Anne-Sophie Mutter
A N Wilson
Edward Fox
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
George Lloyd
Georg Solti
Grace Bumbry
Ileana Cotrubas
John Julius Norwich
Jon Vickers
Paco Peña
Patricia Hayes
Rt Hon David Mellor MP

Angela Gheorghiu
Angela Gheorghiu on witnessing the fall of Ceaușescu
Castaway · 4 April 2004Sue Lawley
George Lloyd
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil
Castaway · 23 April 1995Sue Lawley
Rt Hon David Mellor MP

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
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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

How Margaret Thatcher told David Mellor he'd never make a living at the Chancery Bar

Castaway · 26 July 1992Sue Lawley

Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

08°34′S 062°12′W

Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

Elizabeth Esteve-Coll on learning oxyacetylene welding on a Spanish ship

Castaway · 20 October 1991Sue Lawley

Anne-Sophie Mutter

13°37′S 174°36′W

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter on preparing to ‘eat the public’ like a lion

Castaway · 29 June 1986Michael Parkinson

06°54′S 112°53′W

A N Wilson

A N Wilson on his childhood ambition to be an Australian Aborigine

Castaway · 30 April 1983Roy Plomley

18°29′S 050°36′W

Edward Fox

How a fear of appearing naked made Edward Fox turn down a film test at age ten

Castaway · 28 April 1979Roy Plomley

Ileana Cotrubas

23°29′S 088°03′W

Ileana Cotrubas

Ileana Cotrubas on being congratulated by Nadia Boulanger for her French

Castaway · 17 March 1979Roy Plomley

16°20′S 035°25′W

Paco Peña

Paco Peña on being moved to tears by flamenco as a child

Castaway · 4 March 1978Roy Plomley

08°41′S 081°00′W

Grace Bumbry

Grace Bumbry on winning a high school singing competition in Saint Louis

Castaway · 3 December 1977Roy Plomley

John Julius Norwich

06°58′S 037°55′W

John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich on attending the Nuremberg trials as a schoolboy

Castaway · 18 October 1975Roy Plomley

22°34′S 114°42′W

Patricia Hayes

Patricia Hayes on a down-and-out woman asking to sit on her lap

Castaway · 19 April 1975Roy Plomley

02°27′S 069°22′W

Alvar Lidell

Alvar Lidell on handling the abdication document for broadcast

Castaway · 5 May 1969Roy Plomley

16°34′S 047°39′W

Jon Vickers

Jon Vickers on the ball he bounced on a nail that his father thought he'd broken on purpose

Castaway · 23 March 1968Roy Plomley

09°41′S 036°27′W

Georg Solti

Georg Solti on being unable to make tea on a desert island

Castaway · 26 December 1966Roy Plomley