Laurel and Hardy — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Laurel and Hardy — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Laurel and Hardy

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

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Billy Connolly
Dave Allen
Katharine Hamnett
Robert Stephens
Rt Hon Virginia Bottomley MP

Rt Hon Virginia Bottomley MP
Virginia Bottomley on being told she didn't enjoy being a child
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How Katharine Hamnett wore a political T-shirt to meet Margaret Thatcher
Castaway · 21 May 1989Sue 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
Browse the archive
About

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

Robert Stephens

Robert Stephens on the worst film ever made

Castaway · 3 February 1979Roy Plomley

17°52′S 142°18′W

Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly on buying a banjo for two pounds in Glasgow

Castaway · 30 July 1977Roy Plomley

02°12′S 079°10′W

Dave Allen

Dave Allen on making a child disappear by moving two paces

Castaway · 12 July 1975Roy Plomley