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desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Public Enemy — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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8 episodes

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2010s

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Ade Adepitan
Asif Kapadia
Bernardine Evaristo
Guy Garvey
Jimmy Wales
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Romesh Ranganathan
Shirine Khoury-Haq

Romesh Ranganathan
Romesh Ranganathan on drafting his suicide note as a teenager
Castaway · 1 June 2025Lauren Laverne
Shirine Khoury-Haq
Shirine Khoury-Haq on losing her daughter 11 minutes after birth
Castaway · 9 June 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
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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

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo on crossing the road to avoid her father aged 11

Castaway · 20 September 2020Lauren Laverne

Asif Kapadia

07°58′S 007°27′W

Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia on swearing off exams after his mother's electric shock treatment

Castaway · 1 December 2019Lauren Laverne

Jimmy Wales

06°18′S 023°03′W

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales on losing a full scholarship after driving around listening to Motley Crue

Castaway · 24 May 2015Kirsty Young

Guy Garvey

01°07′S 154°18′W

Guy Garvey

Guy Garvey on smuggling a case of Guinness into the Olympic closing ceremony

Castaway · 3 August 2014Kirsty Young

Ade Adepitan

16°50′S 179°54′W

Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan on crawling up a volcano in Nicaragua

Castaway · 30 September 2012Kirsty Young

Kwame Kwei-Armah

09°57′S 168°41′W

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah on changing his name after watching Roots

Castaway · 15 May 2011Kirsty Young

Romesh Ranganathan

Shirine Khoury-Haq

Asif Kapadia

Jimmy Wales

Guy Garvey

Ade Adepitan

Kwame Kwei-Armah