Ken Dodd

Tuning in…

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

Ken Dodd — Artist · desert is.land

Artist

4 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

George Carman QC
George Carman on giving up the priesthood because he liked women
Castaway · 24 June 1990Sue Lawley
Tony Greig
How a garden boy nicknamed Tackies taught Tony Greig cricket
Castaway · 22 May 1976Roy Plomley
Sandy Powell

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

Sandy Powell on the accidental origin of 'Can you hear me, Mother?'

Castaway · 25 November 1968Roy Plomley

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Ken Dodd on wandering onto stage without trousers at age two

Castaway · 13 July 1963Roy Plomley