Julian Bream

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Julian Bream — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Anita Roddick
Anna Ford
E P Thompson
Felicity Kendal
Frederic Raphael
Kenneth Williams
Noel Edmonds
Peter Pears
Roy Dotrice

Anna Ford
How Anna Ford taught IRA internees in Long Kesh
Castaway · 18 March 2012Kirsty Young
E P Thompson
E P Thompson on his memory of Gandhi spinning in his house
Castaway · 3 November 1991Sue 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
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Transmission

Broadcasting since 1942
Long wave 198 kHz
An unofficial archive companion
Report a fault

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick on being turned down by a bank in a Bob Dylan t-shirt with her babies

Castaway · 22 May 1988Michael Parkinson

Kenneth Williams

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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Williams on the newsvendor whose voice he used for Gramp Fattock

Castaway · 26 July 1987Michael Parkinson

Frederic Raphael

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Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael on having to explain why a character is named Martha not Georgina

Castaway · 21 February 1981Roy Plomley

Noel Edmonds

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Noel Edmonds

Noel Edmonds on quitting a £3,000-a-year job at 19 with nothing to fall back on

Castaway · 14 October 1978Roy Plomley

Felicity Kendal

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Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal on being thrown on stage by her father aged nine

Castaway · 1 April 1978Roy Plomley

Roy Dotrice

04°45′S 141°27′W

Roy Dotrice

Roy Dotrice on playing female roles in a POW camp

Castaway · 29 January 1977Roy Plomley

Peter Pears

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Peter Pears

Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds

Castaway · 21 July 1969Roy Plomley