Leonard Cohen — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Leonard Cohen

41 episodes

Chosen over the decades

41

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

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Alec Jeffreys
Alexandra Shulman
Allan Ahlberg
Ann Cleeves
Anne Enright
Arthur Edwards
Arundhati Roy
Benjamin Zephaniah
Chris Riddell
David Gilmour
Elif Shafak
Gillian Clarke
Guy Singh-Watson
Jack Vettriano
Jens Stoltenberg
Jeremy Irons
John Cale
Kate Atkinson
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kim Cattrall
Mariana Mazzucato
Mary Greenwell
Michael Bublé
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Richard Young
Castaway · 15 February 2026Lauren Laverne
Mary Greenwell
Castaway · 19 October 2025Lauren Laverne
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
Castaway · 6 February 2022

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
Report a fault

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

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Leonard Cohen — Artist · desert is.land