Melos Ensemble — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Melos Ensemble — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Melos Ensemble

5 episodes

Chosen over the decades

5

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

2

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

David Lloyd Jones
Desmond Hawkins
Professor Jean Golding
Sinead Cusack
Sir John Tooley

Professor Jean Golding
Jean Golding on delivering a letter to the Vice Chancellor in his pinny
Castaway · 18 November 2022Lauren Laverne
Sinead Cusack
How a row about Paradise Lost led Sinead Cusack to leave university
Castaway · 28 May 1983Roy Plomley

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

David Lloyd Jones

David Lloyd Jones on hearing the Magic Flute overture aged eight

Castaway · 2 October 1982Roy Plomley

Desmond Hawkins

12°58′S 101°46′W

Desmond Hawkins

Desmond Hawkins on his boyhood ambition to open the batting for Surrey

Castaway · 29 May 1982Roy Plomley

Sir John Tooley

18°20′S 057°23′W

Sir John Tooley

John Tooley on accepting he lacked the talent to be a singer

Castaway · 11 October 1980Roy Plomley