Muddy Waters — Artist · desert is.land

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

Muddy Waters — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Muddy Waters

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Eric Clapton
Hugh Laurie
Joan Armatrading
John Lee Hooker
Jo Nesbø
Nicole Farhi
Paul Jones
Ronnie Wood
Ruth Padel
Tim Minchin

Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø on his father's New Year's Eve story of a comrade's head exploding
Castaway · 21 June 2026Lauren Laverne
Ronnie Wood
How a party sofa led Ronnie Wood to join the Rolling Stones
Castaway · 12 October 2025Lauren Laverne
Nicole Farhi

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Most requested
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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

Nicole Farhi on sculpting a head of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough House

Castaway · 10 July 2016Kirsty Young

18°43′S 006°32′W

Tim Minchin

How a bad review from Phil Doust inspired Tim Minchin to write a song

Castaway · 6 May 2012Kirsty Young

08°03′S 071°12′W

Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel on the moment she chose to retreat from a tigress in Russia

Castaway · 11 January 2009Kirsty Young

00°13′S 117°57′W

Hugh Laurie

How an envelope from Stephen Fry revealed his disappearance to Hugh Laurie

Castaway · 12 May 1996Sue Lawley

John Lee Hooker

16°15′S 008°50′W

John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker on leaving home with two dollars and a guitar

Castaway · 11 June 1995Sue Lawley

22°38′S 118°39′W

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton on discovering at nine that his parents were actually his grandparents

Castaway · 10 September 1989Sue Lawley

Joan Armatrading

12°20′S 035°13′W

Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading on arriving from the Caribbean alone aged seven with a sign around her neck

Castaway · 29 January 1989Sue Lawley

14°22′S 125°30′W

Paul Jones

Paul Jones on hearing T Bone Walker and deciding his life's direction

Castaway · 3 September 1983Roy Plomley