Mormon Tabernacle Choir

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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

Mormon Tabernacle Choir — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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7 episodes

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1990s

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Conrad Black
Hugh Lloyd
John Napier
JP Donleavy
Nigel Nicolson
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

JP Donleavy
JP Donleavy on Brendan Behan breaking into his cottage to read The Ginger Man
Castaway · 4 March 2007Kirsty Young
Nigel Nicolson
Nigel Nicolson on Virginia Woolf asking about his school lies
Castaway · 12 March 1995Sue Lawley

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

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu on black children scavenging sandwiches from white school waste bins

Castaway · 6 November 1994Sue Lawley

Conrad Black

18°32′S 167°48′W

Conrad Black

Conrad Black on taking visitors to see his press hall's million-copy print run

Castaway · 27 March 1994Sue Lawley

John Napier

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John Napier

John Napier on his mother forbidding him from becoming an actor

Castaway · 8 May 1976Roy Plomley

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

07°21′S 117°18′W

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

How Montgomery refused to give in after his mother beat him for smoking

Castaway · 20 December 1969Roy Plomley

Hugh Lloyd

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Hugh Lloyd

Hugh Lloyd on his decision never to laugh at his own jokes

Castaway · 7 June 1965Roy Plomley

JP Donleavy

Nigel Nicolson

Conrad Black

John Napier

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Hugh Lloyd