Ludwig van Beethoven — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Ludwig van Beethoven — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Ludwig van Beethoven

10 episodes

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10

Total castaways

1960s

Peak decade

4

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Ben Helfgott
Bruce Tulloh
David Shepherd
Dr Roy Strong
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Lillian Board
Selina Scott
Sir Frank Francis
Sir Gordon Russell
Sir Paul Dukes

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on making peppermint creams aged eight
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Ben Helfgott
Ben Helfgott on sleeping under sheets for the first time in three years
Castaway · 1 April 2007Kirsty 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
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

Selina Scott on earning a penny a line by covering funerals and weddings aged 14

Castaway · 23 February 1986Michael Parkinson

09°28′S 114°51′W

Bruce Tulloh

Bruce Tulloh on getting the idea to run across America from the Guinness Book of Records

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07°05′S 082°20′W

David Shepherd

David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter

Castaway · 11 September 1971Roy Plomley

00°15′S 049°09′W

Dr Roy Strong

Roy Strong on buying a long-lost portrait of Milton for £22

Castaway · 7 March 1970Roy Plomley

17°55′S 029°58′W

Lillian Board

How Colette Besson denied Lillian Board Olympic gold

Castaway · 29 November 1969Roy Plomley

Sir Gordon Russell

07°32′S 020°15′W

Sir Gordon Russell

How walking down the main street of Chipping Camden taught Gordon Russell more than school

Castaway · 3 June 1968Roy Plomley

Sir Frank Francis

16°01′S 056°38′W

Sir Frank Francis

Frank Francis on the sketch plans for moving the British Museum Library

Castaway · 14 March 1966Roy Plomley

13°34′S 035°53′W

Sir Paul Dukes

Paul Dukes on starting life over again at seventy

Castaway · 22 February 1965Roy Plomley