Leontyne Price — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Leontyne Price — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Leontyne Price

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Andrew Cruickshank
Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Sue)
Bishop Trevor Huddleston
Bryan Stevenson
David Wall
Helene Hanff
Jane Somerville
John Copley
Leontyne Price
Maya Angelou
Noah Stewart
Renee Fleming

Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson on the death row prisoner who sang a hymn that changed his life
Castaway · 8 March 2015Kirsty Young
Jane Somerville
Jane Somerville on burning her husband’s shirt to avoid ironing
Castaway · 7 July 2013Kirsty Young
Noah Stewart

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

How Noah Stewart went on as Macduff when the lead tenor got sick

Castaway · 14 October 2012Kirsty Young

23°57′S 059°19′W

John Copley

John Copley on cooking pasta sauce with Pavarotti

Castaway · 3 January 2010Kirsty Young

17°45′S 070°17′W

Renee Fleming

Renee Fleming on meeting Placido Domingo for the first time mid-scene

Castaway · 18 November 2005Sue Lawley

Bishop Trevor Huddleston

19°30′S 136°12′W

Bishop Trevor Huddleston

How a novice master warned Trevor Huddleston he would miss children

Castaway · 25 September 1988Michael Parkinson

19°29′S 054°56′W

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou on the moment poetry gave her back her voice

Castaway · 2 August 1987Michael Parkinson

Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Sue)

03°46′S 040°23′W

Baroness (Sue) Ryder of Warsaw

Sue Ryder on being taken to Yorkshire slums by district nurses at age seven

Castaway · 25 January 1987Michael Parkinson

07°17′S 031°37′W

Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff on writing a book without any idea what she was doing

Castaway · 19 December 1981Roy Plomley

23°02′S 078°05′W

David Wall

How David Wall helped a Japanese ballet company understand Swan Lake

Castaway · 25 March 1978Roy Plomley

12°39′S 156°34′W

Leontyne Price

Leontyne Price on being inspired by Marian Anderson at age nine

Castaway · 22 September 1973Roy Plomley

Andrew Cruickshank

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Andrew Cruickshank

Andrew Cruickshank on realising he was no good as a civil engineer

Castaway · 14 February 1966Roy Plomley