Liza Minnelli — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Liza Minnelli — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Liza Minnelli

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

5

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Don Black
General Sir Charles Guthrie
Graham Norton
James Prior
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell
Nina Campbell
Omar Sharif
Robert Carrier
Stubby Kaye

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Lin-Manuel Miranda on being called out by a song in Rent aged 17
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Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin on learning of the gay plague from a sobbing friend
Castaway · 25 November 2007Kirsty Young

desert is.land

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

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

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

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General Sir Charles Guthrie

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General Sir Charles Guthrie

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Nina Campbell

Nina Campbell on not being able to make a pair of curtains

Castaway · 16 March 1997Sue Lawley

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Don Black

Don Black on seeing The Jolson Story 32 times as a child

Castaway · 22 October 1995Sue Lawley

Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell

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Margaret Kelly - Miss Bluebell

Miss Bluebell on hiding her husband in an attic for two and a half years in Nazi-occupied Paris

Castaway · 7 February 1988Michael Parkinson

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Robert Carrier

Robert Carrier on painting large canvases of food and nude women

Castaway · 15 November 1987Michael Parkinson

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James Prior

How James Prior challenged the minister of food over his school pig club

Castaway · 11 January 1987Michael Parkinson

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Stubby Kaye

Stubby Kaye on wetting his pants during his first stage performance

Castaway · 4 February 1984Roy Plomley

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Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif on the photograph that won him his role in Lawrence of Arabia

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