Mstislav Rostropovich — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Mstislav Rostropovich — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Mstislav Rostropovich

8 episodes

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2000s

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3

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John Major
Julian Lloyd Webber
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Penelope Wilton on the warm air from a pantomime stage that made her want to act
Castaway · 30 March 2008Kirsty Young

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

Nicholas Grimshaw

How seeing an architecture school in Edinburgh set Nicholas Grimshaw's career

Castaway · 14 December 2003Sue Lawley

21°36′S 156°48′W

Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin on her mother's death on her 17th birthday

Castaway · 17 March 2002Sue Lawley

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John Major

John Major on how his father's debt forced them to sell their home

Castaway · 26 January 1992Sue Lawley

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Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens on her father's mistaken ticket to Cardiff

Castaway · 8 September 1991Sue Lawley

Anne-Sophie Mutter

13°37′S 174°36′W

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter on preparing to ‘eat the public’ like a lion

Castaway · 29 June 1986Michael Parkinson

Julian Lloyd Webber

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Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber on choosing the cello to get out of practising the piano

Castaway · 1 August 1981Roy Plomley