Madonna — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Madonna — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Madonna

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baroness Arminka Helić
Caitlin Moran
Frankie Dettori
Helen Fielding
Jo Fairley
Katherine Ryan
Melanie C
Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP
Sinead Burke
Zadie Smith

Katherine Ryan
Katherine Ryan on the red leather gloves that defined her grandmother’s glamour
Castaway · 1 October 2023Lauren Laverne
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding on the time her film crew drove over a landmine
Castaway · 5 July 2020Lauren Laverne

desert is.land

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

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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

Sinead Burke on getting 'Little Person' into the Irish dictionary

Castaway · 17 May 2020Lauren Laverne

23°22′S 031°03′W

Melanie C

Melanie C on being bullied by a fellow Spice Girl

Castaway · 23 February 2020Lauren Laverne

Baroness Arminka Helić

00°52′S 119°18′W

Baroness Arminka Helić

Arminka Helić on being called in aged 14 to become a communist

Castaway · 13 October 2019Lauren Laverne

09°28′S 001°06′W

Jo Fairley

Jo Fairley on tasting the chocolate that inspired Green & Blacks

Castaway · 11 August 2019Lauren Laverne

03°03′S 131°34′W

Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran on washing a dirty wall and talking to her future self

Castaway · 22 January 2017Kirsty Young

05°37′S 129°15′W

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith on sitting in her future husband’s room until 4am

Castaway · 22 September 2013Kirsty Young

Frankie Dettori

13°44′S 081°20′W

Frankie Dettori

Frankie Dettori on the day he rode seven winners at Ascot

Castaway · 15 January 2006Sue Lawley

Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP

11°29′S 013°02′W

Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP

Michael Portillo on feeling relief when he lost his seat

Castaway · 16 July 2000Sue Lawley