Eminem — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Eminem — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Eminem

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Camila Batmanghelidjh
Dr Waheed Arian
Ellie Simmonds
Julie Bentley
Katherine Ryan
Michael Bublé
Michael Johnson
Nigella Lawson
Professor Lucy Easthope
Romesh Ranganathan
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Sir Clive Woodward

Professor Lucy Easthope
Lucy Easthope on why the response can be worse than the disaster
Castaway · 8 June 2025Lauren Laverne
Romesh Ranganathan
Romesh Ranganathan on drafting his suicide note as a teenager
Castaway · 1 June 2025Lauren Laverne

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Broadcasting since 1942
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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

Katherine Ryan on the red leather gloves that defined her grandmother’s glamour

Castaway · 1 October 2023Lauren Laverne

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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Ronnie O'Sullivan

Ronnie O'Sullivan on learning his father's verdict in his grandad's kitchen

Castaway · 28 May 2023Lauren Laverne

Dr Waheed Arian

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Dr Waheed Arian

Waheed Arian on burning his passport in a plane toilet at Heathrow

Castaway · 2 October 2022Lauren Laverne

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Ellie Simmonds

Ellie Simmonds on the sofa moment that sparked her Paralympic dream

Castaway · 22 May 2022Lauren Laverne

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Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé on looping a song on cassette as a 10-year-old

Castaway · 30 October 2016Kirsty Young

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Julie Bentley

Julie Bentley on being sick on her first day as a police photographer

Castaway · 7 December 2014Kirsty Young

Michael Johnson

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Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson on retiring after 1996 while still world number one

Castaway · 16 October 2011Kirsty Young

Sir Clive Woodward

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Sir Clive Woodward

Clive Woodward on watching the blood capsule scandal on TV

Castaway · 21 February 2010Kirsty Young

Camila Batmanghelidjh

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Camila Batmanghelidjh

How a 13-year-old drug runner brought his younger siblings to Camila Batmanghelidjh

Castaway · 22 October 2006Kirsty Young

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Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson on her mother thinking she was autistic because she never spoke

Castaway · 5 October 2003Sue Lawley