Pet Shop Boys — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Pet Shop Boys — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Pet Shop Boys

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

3

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Andrew Neil
Dame Helena Morrissey
David Walliams
Gary O'Donoghue
George Michael
Hugh Bonneville
Janet Street-Porter
Maria Balshaw
Rupert Everett

Gary O'Donoghue
Gary O'Donoghue on trying to run away from home after losing his sight
Castaway · 17 May 2026Lauren Laverne
Maria Balshaw
Maria Balshaw on seeing a child scoot into the gallery
Castaway · 9 August 2020Lauren 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
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

Dame Helena Morrissey

Helena Morrissey on her childhood obsession with earning Brownie badges

Castaway · 22 March 2020Lauren Laverne

19°51′S 081°51′W

Rupert Everett

How John Schlesinger fell asleep while Rupert Everett pitched a script

Castaway · 5 January 2020Lauren Laverne

Hugh Bonneville

11°49′S 074°30′W

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville on discovering his mother worked for MI6

Castaway · 28 February 2016Kirsty Young

02°06′S 124°00′W

David Walliams

David Walliams on signing autographs in a hospice as his father died

Castaway · 22 February 2009Kirsty Young

Janet Street-Porter

18°50′S 040°49′W

Janet Street-Porter

Janet Street-Porter on her childhood fantasy of being a swapped baby

Castaway · 23 November 2008Kirsty 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

18°08′S 169°01′W

Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil on the scoop that got his source kidnapped by Mossad

Castaway · 25 February 2007Kirsty Young