Pablo Casals — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Pablo Casals — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Pablo Casals

27 episodes

Chosen over the decades

26

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

6

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Alan Bates
A L Rowse
A N Wilson
Dr Gwen Adshead
Elena Gerhardt
Erich Segal
Helena Kennedy QC
Helen Bamber
Janet Suzman
Jan Pienkowski
John Fortune
Joseph Rotblat
June Mendoza
Kyung-Wha Chung
Malcolm Muggeridge
Miriam Rothschild
Mitsuko Uchida
Placido Domingo
Posy Simmonds
Quentin Blake
Reginald Goodall
Richard Eyre
Simon Rattle
Sir Michael Marmot
more

Sir Michael Marmot
How a bottle of white mixture led Michael Marmot to question medicine
Castaway · 6 July 2014Kirsty Young
Dr Gwen Adshead
Gwen Adshead on the moment she says 'when you killed' to a patient
Castaway · 11 July 2010Kirsty Young
Jan Pienkowski

desert is.land

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

The listing

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Most requested
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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

Jan Pienkowski on unwrapping a toy train and wanting his dad

Castaway · 18 October 2009Kirsty Young

16°57′S 033°10′W

Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds on starting to draw as soon as she could hold a pencil

Castaway · 29 June 2008Kirsty Young

23°48′S 059°10′W

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake on drawing with a waverly nib

Castaway · 1 October 2006Kirsty Young

06°14′S 165°07′W

John Fortune

John Fortune on the English master who changed his life by reading T.S. Eliot

Castaway · 12 December 2004Sue Lawley

11°44′S 074°45′W

Willard White

Willard White on saying Othello's first line fifty three different ways

Castaway · 7 November 1999Sue Lawley

02°10′S 030°35′W

Helen Bamber

Helen Bamber on finding survivors clinging to her at Belsen

Castaway · 2 May 1999Sue Lawley

16°16′S 124°12′W

Joseph Rotblat

Joseph Rotblat on being told the bomb was to subdue the Russians

Castaway · 8 November 1998Sue Lawley

Helena Kennedy QC

15°26′S 095°01′W

Helena Kennedy QC

Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn

Castaway · 25 January 1998Sue Lawley

18°17′S 169°45′W

Mitsuko Uchida

Mitsuko Uchida on answering her brother's piano questions at three

Castaway · 28 April 1996Sue Lawley

Miriam Rothschild

03°39′S 156°06′W

Miriam Rothschild

Miriam Rothschild on losing her microscope vision and turning to wildflowers

Castaway · 23 April 1989Sue Lawley

10°29′S 084°03′W

Peter Fluck & Roger Law

Peter Fluck and Roger Law on splitting their desert island by the high tide

Castaway · 1 February 1987Michael Parkinson

06°05′S 071°44′W

Richard Eyre

Richard Eyre on the mirror moment that convinced him to stop acting

Castaway · 23 March 1985Roy Plomley

06°54′S 112°53′W

A N Wilson

A N Wilson on his childhood ambition to be an Australian Aborigine

Castaway · 30 April 1983Roy Plomley

Malcolm Muggeridge

13°07′S 116°14′W

Malcolm Muggeridge

How Malcolm Muggeridge learned in the Soviet Union that power cannot make men good

Castaway · 19 September 1981Roy Plomley

Placido Domingo

23°17′S 136°05′W

Placido Domingo

Placido Domingo on the tape audition that led him to the Israel Opera

Castaway · 27 December 1980Roy Plomley

23°10′S 094°24′W

Erich Segal

Erich Segal on being the fortieth writer on Yellow Submarine

Castaway · 19 April 1980Roy Plomley

Reginald Goodall

14°25′S 076°13′W

Reginald Goodall

Reginald Goodall on being a 'very bad Verdi conductor'

Castaway · 5 January 1980Roy Plomley

Kyung-Wha Chung

01°45′S 085°21′W

Kyung-Wha Chung

Kyung-Wha Chung on being banned from concerts by Jascha Heifetz

Castaway · 29 December 1979Roy Plomley

11°43′S 028°55′W

June Mendoza

How a painting of a cellist made June Mendoza choose art over a screen test

Castaway · 8 September 1979Roy Plomley

21°41′S 118°20′W

Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman on the phone call offering her an RSC part

Castaway · 12 August 1978Roy Plomley

12°40′S 092°56′W

Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle on the terrifying moment before his first rehearsal with an orchestra

Castaway · 5 August 1978Roy Plomley

15°33′S 159°34′W

A L Rowse

A L Rowse on discovering the Dark Lady of the Sonnets in the Bodleian Library

Castaway · 13 August 1977Roy Plomley

23°44′S 104°00′W

Alan Bates

Alan Bates on the poor opening notices for Look Back in Anger

Castaway · 9 October 1976Roy Plomley

21°23′S 027°53′W

Steve Race

Steve Race on suffering a heart attack at the microphone

Castaway · 27 November 1971Roy Plomley

00°10′S 143°44′W

Elena Gerhardt

How Elena Gerhardt burst out 'I can sing' on her first day of school

Castaway · 10 November 1958Roy Plomley