Noël Coward — 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

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Noël Coward

56 episodes

Chosen over the decades

56

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

7

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Adele Leigh
Alec Clifton-Taylor
Alice Delysia
Burl Ives
Charlotte Lamb
Dame Edith Evans
Dame Sibyl Hathaway
Derek Jacobi
Don McCullin
Doris Hare
Dr Elsie Hall
Earl Of Snowdon
Edward Fox
Evelyn Laye
Gyles Brandreth
Ian Richardson
Jane Somerville
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Tate
Jenny Beavan
Jeremy Lloyd
J G Ballard
Jocelyn Stevens
John Julius Norwich
more

Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Grenfell on receiving an anonymous letter about mocking Cockney accents
Castaway · 22 May 1971Roy Plomley
Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye on being asked her name as a baby and replying 'Boo boo'
Castaway · 23 June 1969Roy 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

Elsie Hall on refusing to play in uniform for South African troops

Castaway · 28 April 1969Roy Plomley

Maggie Fitzgibbon

01°04′S 176°23′W

Maggie Fitzgibbon

Maggie Fitzgibbon on being discovered while singing under the shower

Castaway · 27 January 1969Roy Plomley

Dame Edith Evans

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Dame Edith Evans

Edith Evans on playing Lady Bracknell underwater

Castaway · 18 May 1964Roy Plomley

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Noel Coward

Noel Coward on being taken to the theatre by his mamma on his birthday from age five

Castaway · 28 January 1963Roy Plomley