Lucia Popp

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

Lucia Popp — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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7 episodes

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Total castaways

1980s

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Castaways who chose this

Alan Howard
Baroness Haleh Afshar
Bernice Rubens
Frank Skinner
Miriam Margolyes
N.Busch
Penelope Hobhouse

Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner on being expelled for embezzling school dinner tickets
Castaway · 13 June 2010Kirsty Young
Baroness Haleh Afshar
Haleh Afshar on how reading Jane Eyre inspired her to leave Iran
Castaway · 28 December 2008Kirsty Young

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
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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

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes on telling her mother she had an affair with a woman

Castaway · 28 September 2008Kirsty Young

Penelope Hobhouse

16°13′S 030°49′W

Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse on writing her first book after buying a typewriter at Woolworths

Castaway · 18 December 1994Sue Lawley

Bernice Rubens

02°38′S 114°00′W

Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens on her father's mistaken ticket to Cardiff

Castaway · 8 September 1991Sue Lawley

N.Busch

00°30′S 001°27′W

N.Busch

Nicholas Busch on his childhood ambition to become a farmer

Castaway · 9 October 1982Roy Plomley

Alan Howard

14°25′S 076°47′W

Alan Howard

Alan Howard on the superstition about quoting Macbeth in a dressing room

Castaway · 5 December 1981Roy Plomley

Frank Skinner

Baroness Haleh Afshar

Penelope Hobhouse

Bernice Rubens

N.Busch

Alan Howard