Hallé Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Hallé Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Hallé Orchestra

13 episodes

Chosen over the decades

13

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Agnes Nicholls
Alec McCowen
Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Sue)
Ben Kingsley
Freddie Jones
George Cole
George Lloyd
Gordon Beningfield
Isidore Godfrey
Julian Lloyd Webber
Patricia Batty Shaw
Professor Alan Gemmell
Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan
How Patrick Marber used Steve Coogan's own words for Alan Partridge
Castaway · 11 October 2009Kirsty Young
George Lloyd
George Lloyd on surviving a shipwreck that drowned his comrades in thick black oil
Castaway · 23 April 1995Sue Lawley

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

Baroness (Sue) Ryder of Warsaw

Sue Ryder on being taken to Yorkshire slums by district nurses at age seven

Castaway · 25 January 1987Michael Parkinson

21°16′S 128°01′W

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley on watching Ian Holm play Richard III

Castaway · 16 February 1986Michael Parkinson

Gordon Beningfield

17°26′S 080°52′W

Gordon Beningfield

Gordon Beningfield on getting down on his hands and knees to see a butterfly's landscape

Castaway · 16 March 1985Roy Plomley

Julian Lloyd Webber

08°43′S 055°18′W

Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano

Castaway · 1 August 1981Roy Plomley

21°19′S 121°19′W

Freddie Jones

Freddie Jones on how his resignation made the company's shares rise by four points

Castaway · 7 June 1980Roy Plomley

09°27′S 024°12′W

Alec McCowen

Alec McCowen on learning the Gospel of Mark three verses at a time

Castaway · 19 May 1979Roy Plomley

Patricia Batty Shaw

14°58′S 074°40′W

Patricia Batty Shaw

How 'Can't we try a little longer?' made Patricia Batty Shaw WI secretary

Castaway · 22 July 1978Roy Plomley

Professor Alan Gemmell

11°58′S 044°52′W

Professor Alan Gemmell

Alan Gemmell on how his mother declared him a botanist after a neighbour's suggestion

Castaway · 12 November 1977Roy Plomley

07°00′S 007°12′W

George Cole

How shoveling coal made a man of George Cole

Castaway · 4 September 1976Roy Plomley

Isidore Godfrey

09°16′S 076°33′W

Isidore Godfrey

Isidore Godfrey on singing Hell's Persia to the Sarsi Indians

Castaway · 7 February 1970Roy Plomley

02°52′S 149°57′W

Agnes Nicholls

Agnes Nicholls on singing before Queen Victoria at her Diamond Jubilee

Castaway · 19 May 1958Roy Plomley