Nirvana — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Nirvana — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Nirvana

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Colonel Lucy Giles
Dr Sue Black
George Michael
Gordon Buchanan
Ian Stewart
Jed Mercurio
John McEnroe
Marlon James
Shirley Ballas
Stella McCartney

Gordon Buchanan
Gordon Buchanan on crying himself to sleep in Sierra Leone aged 17
Castaway · 30 November 2025Lauren Laverne
Shirley Ballas
Shirley Ballas on the extra roast potato at free school dinners
Castaway · 10 December 2023Lauren Laverne

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
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About

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

Colonel Lucy Giles

Lucy Giles on an 18-hour logistic convoy through the snow in Bosnia

Castaway · 27 December 2020Lauren Laverne

16°29′S 001°49′W

Marlon James

How an exorcism led Marlon James to leave the church

Castaway · 17 March 2019Lauren Laverne

06°47′S 100°38′W

Dr Sue Black

Sue Black on discovering that most Bletchley Park codebreakers were women

Castaway · 20 May 2018Kirsty Young

18°26′S 102°55′W

John McEnroe

John McEnroe on being greeted by 'you cannot be serious' at UK immigration

Castaway · 16 July 2017Kirsty Young

Stella McCartney

03°27′S 129°19′W

Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney on her children telling Paul McCartney to shut up while he played guitar

Castaway · 25 June 2017Kirsty Young

14°48′S 138°27′W

Jed Mercurio

Jed Mercurio on the moment a patient's wife said 'don't let him die'

Castaway · 18 June 2017Kirsty Young

13°30′S 155°03′W

George Michael

How friends persuaded George Michael not to come out to his parents at 19

Castaway · 30 September 2007Kirsty Young

21°23′S 042°13′W

Ian Stewart

How a broken collarbone saved Ian Stewart for mathematics

Castaway · 15 March 1998Sue Lawley