Meat Loaf — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Meat Loaf — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Meat Loaf

11 episodes

Chosen over the decades

11

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Beryl Bainbridge
Greg Dyke
John Caudwell
Karren Brady
Michael Deeley
Professor Monica Grady
Professor Nick Webborn
Roger Deakins
Simon Weston
Stephen Fry
Terry Pratchett

Sir Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins on feeling most confident with his eye to the eyepiece
Castaway · 26 July 2026Lauren Laverne
Professor Nick Webborn
Nick Webborn on the moment he heard a crack in his neck on a rugby field
Castaway · 27 February 2022Lauren Laverne

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

John Caudwell

John Caudwell on his childhood fantasy of giving five pound notes from a Rolls-Royce

Castaway · 23 January 2022Lauren Laverne

Professor Monica Grady

14°56′S 157°28′W

Professor Monica Grady

Monica Grady on punching the air as the comet probe landed

Castaway · 26 July 2015Kirsty Young

09°49′S 014°25′W

Michael Deeley

Michael Deeley on the secret exhilaration of surviving a shooting in Malaya

Castaway · 14 December 2008Kirsty Young

Beryl Bainbridge

15°01′S 123°25′W

Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge on being thrown out of school for illustrating a dirty rhyme

Castaway · 3 February 2008Kirsty Young

05°51′S 021°38′W

Karren Brady

Karren Brady on being asked for her vital statistics at her first press conference

Castaway · 30 December 2007Kirsty Young

22°11′S 135°59′W

Greg Dyke

Greg Dyke on reading Lord Hutton's report and knowing the public would side with the BBC

Castaway · 20 May 2007Kirsty Young

Terry Pratchett

00°44′S 130°57′W

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett on meeting Arthur C. Clarke in the gents aged 13

Castaway · 9 February 1997Sue Lawley

05°00′S 022°22′W

Simon Weston

Simon Weston on his mother not recognising him after the Falklands

Castaway · 31 March 1996Sue Lawley

19°40′S 055°23′W

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry on being a 'rat' as a child

Castaway · 27 November 1988Michael Parkinson