Dory Previn — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Dory Previn — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Dory Previn

7 episodes

Chosen over the decades

7

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Glenys Kinnock
Jacqueline Wilson
Jarvis Cocker
Neil Kinnock
Ralph Koltai
Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson
Sue Lawley

Jacqueline Wilson
How an advert for foster children gave Jacqueline Wilson the idea for Tracy Beaker
Castaway · 16 October 2005Sue Lawley
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker on wiggling his bum at the Brit Awards
Castaway · 24 April 2005Sue Lawley
Ralph Koltai

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
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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 a badly painted sign led Ralph Koltai to art school

Castaway · 23 August 1998Sue Lawley

21°37′S 092°45′W

Glenys Kinnock

Glenys Kinnock on her father's Suez Canal lesson in 1956

Castaway · 20 November 1994Sue Lawley

Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson

00°57′S 074°38′W

Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson on switching from maths at Oxford before he was found out

Castaway · 3 December 1989Sue Lawley

20°11′S 011°39′W

Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock on his mother dying of a broken heart

Castaway · 1 May 1988Michael Parkinson

10°50′S 051°01′W

Sue Lawley

Sue Lawley on being called the kind of girl you'd take home to mum

Castaway · 8 November 1987Michael Parkinson