Elly Ameling — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Elly Ameling — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Elly Ameling

5 episodes

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5

Total castaways

1980s

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2

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Elly Ameling
Eric Shilling
General Sir John Hackett
Sir Fred Hoyle
Sybil Marshall

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Castaway · 7 November 1993Sue Lawley
Sir Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle on climbing a wall and looking up into the sky
Castaway · 12 October 1986Michael Parkinson

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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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

Elly Ameling on Pierre Bernac’s cocker spaniel face

Castaway · 9 February 1985Roy Plomley

14°02′S 026°00′W

Eric Shilling

How singing in the office got Eric Shilling into trouble

Castaway · 30 May 1981Roy Plomley

General Sir John Hackett

23°38′S 103°03′W

General Sir John Hackett

John Hackett on escaping German-occupied Holland in a canoe at dawn

Castaway · 21 June 1980Roy Plomley