Jean Sablon — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Jean Sablon — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Jean Sablon

10 episodes

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10

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1990s

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6

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Baroness Blackstone
Frank Phillips
Joanna Trollope
Katharine Whitehorn
Lord Annan
M M Kaye
Pat Albeck
P D James
Ted Allbeury

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Pat Albeck on watching people ignore her dress in Fenwick's window
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Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn on her husband telling her to get a job on a Hampstead Heath bench
Castaway · 1 May 2005Sue Lawley
P D James

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

P D James on narrating her own life from childhood

Castaway · 27 October 2002Sue Lawley

Joanna Trollope

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Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope on coming out of the historical cupboard

Castaway · 11 September 1994Sue Lawley

Baroness Blackstone

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Baroness Blackstone

Tessa Blackstone on being dubbed dark-eyed evil genius

Castaway · 25 April 1993Sue Lawley

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Lord Annan

Annan on being beaten for false Latin concordances at prep school

Castaway · 4 November 1990Sue Lawley

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M M Kaye

M M Kaye on how one rejection would have ended her writing career

Castaway · 31 December 1983Roy Plomley

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Ted Allbeury

Ted Allbeury on describing a naked couple as 'a nurse attending the wounded' in an intelligence test

Castaway · 22 September 1979Roy Plomley

12°31′S 121°17′W

Alan Keith

Alan Keith on playing truant from school to go to the theatre

Castaway · 6 February 1971Roy Plomley

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Frank Phillips

Frank Phillips on reading the morning news in his pajamas

Castaway · 23 November 1964Roy Plomley