Joan Hammond — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Joan Hammond — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Joan Hammond

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Barbara Taylor Bradford
Dr Catherine Gavin
Eve Pollard
Frankie Howerd
Joan Hammond
Joan Turner
John Laurie
Professor A H Halsey
Rosina Harrison

Eve Pollard
Eve Pollard on playing badminton in the office at four o'clock
Castaway · 11 December 2011Kirsty Young
Professor A H Halsey
A H Halsey on learning to be bilingual between home and school
Castaway · 4 May 2003Sue Lawley
Joan Turner

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

Joan Turner on her nervous breakdown from juggling home, husband, and career

Castaway · 31 July 1988Michael Parkinson

Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford on the dying friend who inspired her novel Voice of the Heart

Castaway · 27 April 1985Roy Plomley

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Frankie Howerd

Frankie Howerd on making up Bible stories as a Sunday school teacher aged 13

Castaway · 23 January 1982Roy Plomley

Dr Catherine Gavin

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Dr Catherine Gavin

Catherine Gavin on the grenadier guards saluting de Gaulle in liberated Paris

Castaway · 24 June 1978Roy Plomley

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John Laurie

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

Castaway · 15 May 1976Roy Plomley

Rosina Harrison

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Rosina Harrison

Rosina Harrison on catching a fish she never got to eat

Castaway · 20 March 1976Roy Plomley

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Joan Hammond

Joan Hammond on her wig getting stuck on a cherry tree branch on stage

Castaway · 25 July 1970Roy Plomley