Peter Pears — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Peter Pears — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Peter Pears

12 episodes

Chosen over the decades

12

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

6

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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Dennis Brain
Geoffrey Grigson
George Martin
John Piper
Lucy Gannon
Malcolm Williamson
Mary Midgley
Peter Pears
Prue Leith
Sir Oliver Millar
Yehudi Menuhin

Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley on witnessing Hitler enter Vienna in 1938
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Lucy Gannon
Lucy Gannon on a friend's memory of her writing poems while playing with birds
Castaway · 30 August 1998Sue Lawley
George Martin

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
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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

George Martin on the morning in June 1962 when the Beatles walked into Abbey Road

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Prue Leith

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter on preparing to ‘eat the public’ like a lion

Castaway · 29 June 1986Michael Parkinson

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John Piper

How the King told John Piper he was 'very unlucky with the weather'

Castaway · 10 December 1983Roy Plomley

Geoffrey Grigson

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Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Grigson on his headmaster telling him he would read classics

Castaway · 16 October 1982Roy Plomley

Sir Oliver Millar

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Sir Oliver Millar

Oliver Millar on insisting the Bible must be the King James's version

Castaway · 4 June 1977Roy Plomley

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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin on his struggle to produce a vibrato

Castaway · 16 April 1977Roy Plomley

Malcolm Williamson

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Malcolm Williamson

How treading on a lady’s foot ended Malcolm Williamson’s conducting career

Castaway · 12 June 1976Roy Plomley

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Peter Pears

Peter Pears on his first concert with Benjamin Britten for Spanish Republican funds

Castaway · 21 July 1969Roy Plomley

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Dennis Brain

Dennis Brain on his father offering him an old horn to try

Castaway · 13 August 1956Roy Plomley