Peter Gabriel — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

Find a castaway Most requested Browse the archive About Report a fault

Tuning in…

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

Peter Gabriel — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

Find a castaway Most requested Browse the archive About Report a fault

Artist

Peter Gabriel

9 episodes

Chosen over the decades

9

Total castaways

2000s

Peak decade

4

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Clive Stafford Smith
Dame Glenys Stacey
Jeremy Clarkson
Joanne Harris
John Cale
Marlon James
Michael Sheen
Richard Rogers
Sir Terry Wogan

Michael Sheen
How Michael Sheen's father proved he was even better than Jack Nicholson
Castaway · 28 September 2025Lauren Laverne
Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris on her great-grandmother's witchy bread-cutting rituals
Castaway · 7 November 2021Lauren 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 Glenys Stacey

Glenys Stacey on the shock of learning her father hated his job

Castaway · 20 October 2019Lauren Laverne

16°29′S 001°49′W

Marlon James

How an exorcism led Marlon James to leave the church

Castaway · 17 March 2019Lauren Laverne

Sir Terry Wogan

08°18′S 087°09′W

Sir Terry Wogan

Terry Wogan on his nerve-wracking first broadcast reading the Cattle Market Report

Castaway · 1 January 2012Kirsty Young

Clive Stafford Smith

08°22′S 147°25′W

Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith on seeing a picture of Joan of Arc being burnt at the stake

Castaway · 21 November 2004Sue Lawley

18°37′S 099°16′W

John Cale

John Cale on his grandmother blaming him for his mother's illness

Castaway · 22 February 2004Sue Lawley

Jeremy Clarkson

11°31′S 031°07′W

Jeremy Clarkson

How a walk down the village street led Jeremy Clarkson into journalism

Castaway · 16 November 2003Sue Lawley

20°52′S 127°57′W

Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers on being beaten at boarding school for failing to remember lines

Castaway · 18 March 1990Sue Lawley