Renata Tebaldi — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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desert is.land

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Renata Tebaldi — Artist · desert is.land

desert is.landest. 1942

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Artist

Renata Tebaldi

8 episodes

Chosen over the decades

8

Total castaways

1970s

Peak decade

5

Decades seen

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Alfredo Campoli
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Helena Kennedy QC
Nicolai Poliakoff
Roger Moore
Sir Terence Rattigan

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Helena Kennedy on having her mini skirt questioned at Gray's Inn
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Derek Jameson
How Derek Jameson's invented war-hero father story collapsed when he did the maths
Castaway · 3 July 1994Sue Lawley

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford on the dying friend who inspired her novel Voice of the Heart

Castaway · 27 April 1985Roy Plomley

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Roger Moore

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

Castaway · 25 July 1981Roy Plomley

Sir Terence Rattigan

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Castaway · 12 January 1974Roy Plomley

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Alec Robertson

Alec Robertson on his mother's singing lesson that ended with 'never come back'

Castaway · 3 June 1972Roy Plomley

Nicolai Poliakoff

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Nicolai Poliakoff

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Castaway · 23 December 1963Roy Plomley

Alfredo Campoli

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Alfredo Campoli

Alfredo Campoli on performing 100 concerts for wounded soldiers at age nine

Castaway · 21 August 1953Roy Plomley