Grace Jones — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Grace Jones — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Grace Jones

12 episodes

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12

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2010s

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4

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Clive Myrie
Dan Pearson
Graham Norton
Guy Singh-Watson
Helen McCrory
Lorraine Kelly
Mario Testino
Norman Parkinson
Pat McGrath
Philip Treacy
Trevor Sorbie
Wendy Dagworthy

Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly on a maternity leave phone call that ended her contract
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Clive Myrie
Clive Myrie on his mother being turned away from a Catholic church because of her address
Castaway · 16 June 2024Lauren 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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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

Helen McCrory on being told to live a bit during her drama school audition

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Pat McGrath on the phone call that stopped her from quitting

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Philip Treacy

Philip Treacy on asking to sew with the girls at school

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Dan Pearson

How a walk in the Picos Mountains gave Dan Pearson a gardening epiphany

Castaway · 8 February 2015Kirsty Young

Wendy Dagworthy

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Wendy Dagworthy on seeing people walking on the street in her clothes

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Mario Testino

Mario Testino on being screamed abuse and beaten up for his flamboyant clothes

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Graham Norton

Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

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Norman Parkinson on moving to a desert island to be well rehearsed

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