Judy Collins — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Judy Collins — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Judy Collins

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

1990s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

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Bernard Cornwell
Dr Richard Dawkins
Fay Weldon
Fran Landesman
Gloria Steinem
Helena Kennedy QC
Jack Vettriano
Peter White
Roger Vadim
Whoopi Goldberg

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Peter White on nagging his mum to let him do the shopping
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Gloria Steinem

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

Gloria Steinem on realising she wanted to adopt herself

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg on writing to Alice Walker to play the dirt in The Color Purple

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Bernard Cornwell

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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell on promising to write a book to win his wife

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Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano on why you should never use black for a stormy sky

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Helena Kennedy QC

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Helena Kennedy QC

Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn

Castaway · 25 January 1998Sue Lawley

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Fran Landesman

Fran Landesman on the origin of Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Castaway · 22 September 1996Sue Lawley

Dr Richard Dawkins

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Dr Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins on comparing God to Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy

Castaway · 22 January 1995Sue Lawley

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Roger Vadim

Roger Vadim on sending the wrong child to the wrong mother

Castaway · 27 July 1986Michael Parkinson

18°53′S 048°24′W

Fay Weldon

Fay Weldon on writing a television play while waiting for her second son to be born

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