Glasgow Orpheus Choir — 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

Glasgow Orpheus Choir — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Glasgow Orpheus Choir

14 episodes

Chosen over the decades

13

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Andrew Cruickshank
Derek Oldham
Eddie Waring
Godfrey Talbot
Helen Bradley
Ian Richardson
John Laurie
Jon Vickers
Molly Weir
Ronnie Corbett
Rt Hon William Whitelaw
Selina Scott

Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett on playing the wicked aunt in a church hall pantomime
Castaway · 21 October 2007Kirsty Young
Selina Scott
Selina Scott on earning a penny a line by covering funerals and weddings aged 14
Castaway · 23 February 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
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

Ian Richardson on dropping his rifle on a polished boot and being knocked unconscious

Castaway · 24 September 1983Roy Plomley

Rt Hon William Whitelaw

03°42′S 017°52′W

Rt Hon William Whitelaw

William Whitelaw on acting as a bouncer at Churchill's Cambridge speech

Castaway · 6 June 1981Roy Plomley

20°00′S 071°16′W

Molly Weir

Molly Weir on coming second in a talent contest

Castaway · 8 October 1977Roy Plomley

05°39′S 047°26′W

John Laurie

How John Laurie was carried from Passchendale on a stretcher, unwounded

Castaway · 15 May 1976Roy Plomley

11°13′S 105°34′W

Helen Bradley

How Helen Bradley painted with a fish slice and a dinner plate

Castaway · 5 July 1975Roy Plomley

21°11′S 015°58′W

Eddie Waring

Eddie Waring on being the first rugby league writer to tour Australia in 1946

Castaway · 23 February 1974Roy Plomley

07°28′S 106°49′W

Ronnie Corbett

Ronnie Corbett on his first job issuing animal feed coupons

Castaway · 29 May 1971Roy 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

Captain John Ridgway

20°02′S 045°35′W

Captain John Ridgway & Sargeant Chay Blyth

John Ridgway and Chay Blyth on the moment they almost gave up rowing the Atlantic

Castaway · 5 December 1966Roy Plomley

18°43′S 062°51′W

Derek Oldham

How a fan told Derek Oldham he went to school with her mother

Castaway · 12 September 1966Roy Plomley

Andrew Cruickshank

14°42′S 073°54′W

Andrew Cruickshank

Andrew Cruickshank on realising he was no good as a civil engineer

Castaway · 14 February 1966Roy Plomley

23°47′S 044°00′W

Godfrey Talbot

How a tank cut Godfrey Talbot's cable during a desert broadcast

Castaway · 29 August 1960Roy Plomley