Janis Joplin — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Janis Joplin — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Janis Joplin

14 episodes

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14

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2010s

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6

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Lindsey Hilsum
Lynn Seymour
Mary Beard
Professor Carlo Rovelli
Sir Alec Broers
Susannah York

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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
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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

Professor Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli on writing physics equations under a tree in a commune

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Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet on taking a hammer to her gold discs

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard on how her breastfeeding heroism was remembered as dereliction of duty

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Cornelia Parker

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Castaway · 16 February 2003Sue Lawley

Sir Alec Broers

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Sir Alec Broers

Alec Broers on being thought lonely at university for enjoying ice skating and music

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Donald Sutherland

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Donald Sutherland

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Jennifer Saunders

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Jennifer Saunders on initially repelling Dawn French

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Jasper Conran

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Anthony Andrews

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Anthony Andrews on his only memory of his father coming home with a drum

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Susannah York

Susannah York on getting her first laugh in a school play aged nine

Castaway · 1 March 1980Roy Plomley

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Lynn Seymour

Lynn Seymour on being bowled over by a dancer after watching The Red Shoes

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