Petula Clark — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Petula Clark — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Petula Clark

10 episodes

Chosen over the decades

10

Total castaways

2010s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Adrian Edmondson
Gloria Steinem
Gordon Pirie
Gurinder Chadha
Jack Dee
Jeremy Lloyd
Lubaina Himid
Marian Keyes
Petula Clark
Roger Moore

Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson on having to fight at every new school because of his name
Castaway · 17 September 2023Lauren Laverne
Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid on returning to Zanzibar for the first time
Castaway · 2 June 2019Lauren 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
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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Marian Keyes on the barbecue where her crippling depression started

Castaway · 12 March 2017Kirsty Young

20°51′S 100°54′W

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem on realising she wanted to adopt herself

Castaway · 20 March 2016Kirsty Young

Gurinder Chadha

23°21′S 027°21′W

Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha on her son's 'Good for you, Mama' hug on set

Castaway · 22 November 2015Kirsty Young

22°25′S 099°35′W

Jack Dee

Jack Dee on being called thick in front of the entire school

Castaway · 11 May 2014Kirsty Young

20°24′S 140°34′W

Petula Clark

Petula Clark on coming close to a nervous breakdown as a teenager

Castaway · 24 December 1995Sue Lawley

16°26′S 031°15′W

Jeremy Lloyd

How Jeremy Lloyd became an old person at 12 and a half

Castaway · 18 January 1987Michael Parkinson

06°47′S 096°04′W

Roger Moore

Roger Moore on being good at looking as though he was listening at school

Castaway · 25 July 1981Roy Plomley

05°33′S 058°59′W

Gordon Pirie

Gordon Pirie on knocking on a posh hotel's tradesman's entrance for dog food

Castaway · 18 November 1963Roy Plomley