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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

Transmission

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

K.d. lang — Artist · desert is.land

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4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

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2000s

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Castaways who chose this

Brian Cox
Brian Cox on his sister presenting him from behind a coal bunker curtain
Castaway · 29 March 2020Lauren Laverne
Sigrid Rausing
How her brother's addiction led Sigrid Rausing to check into rehab
Castaway · 24 January 2016Kirsty Young

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

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

Armistead Maupin on learning of the gay plague from a sobbing friend

Castaway · 25 November 2007Kirsty Young

05°51′S 093°08′W

Graham Norton on Joan Collins’s phone call with a glove fetishist

Castaway · 2 May 2004Sue Lawley