Genesis — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Genesis — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Genesis

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Brian Moore
Dame Wendy Hall
David Baddiel
David Gower
Heather Hallett
Helen Browning
Mohamed Amin
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Roula Khalaf
Toto Wolff
Virginia Holgate

Roula Khalaf
Roula Khalaf on sleeping on the side of the bed closest to the door
Castaway · 22 February 2026Lauren Laverne
Toto Wolff
Toto Wolff on leaving school with his sister because tuition fees were unpaid
Castaway · 30 July 2023Lauren Laverne

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
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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

Castaway · 28 May 2023Lauren Laverne

Heather Hallett

11°44′S 171°56′W

Heather Hallett

Heather Hallett on a judge's unwanted sexual advance

Castaway · 6 June 2021Lauren Laverne

17°08′S 109°46′W

David Baddiel

David Baddiel on his father calling English a waste of a brain

Castaway · 27 May 2018Kirsty Young

19°57′S 014°55′W

Helen Browning

Helen Browning on walking out of her A-levels to be with her dying brother

Castaway · 17 May 2015Kirsty Young

Dame Wendy Hall

14°46′S 145°10′W

Dame Wendy Hall

Wendy Hall on being told she didn't get a job because she was a woman

Castaway · 27 July 2014Kirsty Young

11°00′S 142°52′W

Brian Moore

Brian Moore on seeking out his birth mother

Castaway · 26 February 2012Kirsty Young

13°03′S 082°53′W

Mohamed Amin

How a chance phone call put Mohamed Amin through to Idi Amin

Castaway · 12 July 1992Sue Lawley

Virginia Holgate

07°06′S 019°17′W

Virginia Holgate

Virginia Holgate on her mother's ultimatum: eat or stop riding

Castaway · 10 August 1986Michael Parkinson

21°30′S 054°18′W

David Gower

David Gower on scoring 154 against the West Indies in Jamaica

Castaway · 14 January 1984Roy Plomley