Nat King Cole — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Nat King Cole

52 episodes

Chosen over the decades

51

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Minter
Baroness Floella Benjamin
Berry Gordy
Brian Glover
Charlie Cairoli
David Suchet
Dickie Bird
Dr Christiaan Barnard
Ed Mirvish (Honest)
Frankie Howerd
Fred Trueman
Gayatri Devi
George Chisholm
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Jack Whitehall
Jimmy McGovern
Joan Fontaine
Joanna Lumley
John Legend
Julian Critchley
Julie Goodyear
June Whitfield
Ken Dodd
Lauren Bacall
more

Dr Christiaan Barnard
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Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood on imitating Charlie Chaplin all the way home
Castaway · 16 September 1972Roy Plomley

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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