Massive Attack — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Massive Attack — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Massive Attack

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Baz Luhrmann
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
David Nicholls
Hanif Kureishi
Jamie Oliver
Janet Street-Porter
Michael McIntyre
Toto Wolff

David Nicholls
David Nicholls on the passage from Tess of the d'Urbervilles that inspired One Day
Castaway · 21 July 2024Lauren Laverne
Toto Wolff
Toto Wolff on leaving school with his sister because tuition fees were unpaid
Castaway · 30 July 2023Lauren 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

Baz Luhrmann on thinking Romeo + Juliet would be small and easy

Castaway · 27 November 2022Lauren Laverne

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

05°48′S 044°44′W

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

Jessica Ennis-Hill on rubbing her hands on her shorts for confidence

Castaway · 18 July 2021Lauren Laverne

Michael McIntyre

21°41′S 070°48′W

Michael McIntyre

Michael McIntyre on waiting two years outside his future wife's door

Castaway · 17 July 2011Kirsty Young

Janet Street-Porter

18°50′S 040°49′W

Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter on her childhood fantasy of being a swapped baby

Castaway · 23 November 2008Kirsty Young

15°12′S 045°22′W

Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver on discovering that bread dough is alive at age ten

Castaway · 23 December 2001Sue Lawley

07°56′S 161°37′W

Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi on being racially insulted every day from age four to sixteen

Castaway · 21 April 1996Sue Lawley