National Philharmonic Orchestra

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

National Philharmonic Orchestra — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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6 episodes

Chosen over the decades

Total castaways

1980s

Peak decade

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Brian Glover
Gerry Robinson
Lord Roy Jenkins
Sir Martin Sorrell
Vivienne Westwood

Sir Martin Sorrell
Martin Sorrell on the near-collapse of WPP in 1991
Castaway · 4 December 2011Kirsty Young
Gerry Robinson
Gerry Robinson on his mother asking if he had his own office
Castaway · 2 June 1996Sue Lawley
Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood on being branded a sex maniac at the age of four

Castaway · 28 June 1992Sue Lawley

Lord Roy Jenkins

16°18′S 147°58′W

Lord Roy Jenkins

Roy Jenkins on teaching himself to be a writer

Castaway · 16 April 1989Sue Lawley

Brian Glover

20°28′S 039°41′W

Brian Glover

Brian Glover on substituting for a French wrestler and becoming Leonares

Castaway · 18 October 1980Roy Plomley

Raymond Mander

00°26′S 151°04′W

Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson

How a last-minute casting for The Merry Wives of Windsor brought Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson together

Castaway · 28 January 1978Roy Plomley

Sir Martin Sorrell

Gerry Robinson

Vivienne Westwood

Lord Roy Jenkins

Brian Glover

Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson