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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

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4 episodes

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2020s

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Castaways who chose this

Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet on her neighbour leaving pasta on the garden wall after Titanic
Castaway · 21 December 2025Lauren Laverne
Samantha Power
Samantha Power on the last time she saw her father, on Christmas Eve
Castaway · 17 January 2021Lauren Laverne
Ben Saunders

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Ben Saunders on his father's biscuit tin of press cuttings

Castaway · 14 February 2016Kirsty Young

04°03′S 138°45′W

Evelyn Glennie on telling musical intervals by where she feels them in her feet

Castaway · 24 January 1993Sue Lawley