Pixies — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Pixies — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Pixies

7 episodes

Chosen over the decades

7

Total castaways

2020s

Peak decade

2

Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Charlie Brooker
Clive Oppenheimer
Daniel Radcliffe
Jesse Armstrong
Jimmy Carr
Professor Alice Roberts
Rob Delaney

Jesse Armstrong
Jesse Armstrong on pitching Succession as Feston meets Dallas
Castaway · 11 January 2026Lauren Laverne
Rob Delaney
Rob Delaney on meeting his wife while caring for a 17-year-old girl with cerebral palsy
Castaway · 7 July 2024Lauren 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

Professor Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts on rollerblading through hospital tunnels for ward rounds

Castaway · 24 March 2024Lauren Laverne

Clive Oppenheimer

15°43′S 040°44′W

Clive Oppenheimer

Clive Oppenheimer on his grandfather painting Albert Einstein

Castaway · 18 February 2024Lauren Laverne

Daniel Radcliffe

08°24′S 057°27′W

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe on asking colleagues to warn him if he got cocky

Castaway · 15 March 2020Lauren Laverne

Charlie Brooker

15°28′S 133°20′W

Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker on holding his newborn child and feeling like an upgrade

Castaway · 7 January 2018Kirsty Young

19°01′S 018°57′W

Jimmy Carr

How Jimmy Carr went from not reading until age 10 to Cambridge

Castaway · 5 March 2017Kirsty Young